Overview
This unit outlines the importance of effective maintenance management in industry, the costs of maintenance and the benefits of effective maintenance planning and strategies. Emphasis is placed on practical aspects of managing maintenance for plant and equipment. You are introduced to techniques and methods for monitoring the condition of plant and equipment, and to processes used to implement and manage condition monitoring. You will investigate maintenance problems and prepare plans to solve such problems. The unit outlines methods for assessing maintenance effectiveness and improving maintenance systems, and provides a vehicle for developing skills for working and learning autonomously to solve problems, to document approaches used to solve problems and to communicate professionally.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisites: ENEG12004 Engineering Design & Management Planning OR ENEG12007 Design and Project Management
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Phone calls and emails.
Students indicated an appreciation of providing a variety of options for the completion of the final assessment item - related to a maintenance project.
Continue with this strategy to provide a wide range of strategies to allow students to enable them to complete assessment item.
- Explain the impact of maintenance on the business of industrial organisations and the need for maintenance management.
- Describe processes for establishing maintenance needs of engineering operations, and developing maintenance plans and strategies, and explain costs and benefits of maintenance management.
- Describe techniques and methods for monitoring the condition of plant and equipment.
- Describe processes used to implement and manage condition monitoring programs for specific applications of plant and equipment.
- Investigate and analyse maintenance problems and develop plans to solve these problems.
- Describe methods for assessing maintenance effectiveness and methods for improving maintenance systems and control of maintenance.
- Work and learn autonomously to solve problems and record and communicate clearly and professionally the approaches used to solve problems and the rationale for adopting such approaches to problems.
Learning outcomes are linked to Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competencies and discipline capabilities.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 15% | |||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 25% | |||||||
| 3 - Presentation and Written Assessment - 60% | |||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 15% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 25% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Presentation and Written Assessment - 60% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Access to a digital camera
- Access to a document scanner and pdf convereter
- A speaker and mic or a head set
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
p.keleher@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Module 1: Introduction to Maintenance and Appendix 1: Terminology
Chapter
Module 1: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Module 1: Introduction to Maintenance
Chapter
Module 1: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Module 2: Principles of Management
Chapter
Module 2: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Module 2: Principles of Management
Chapter
Module 2: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Module 2: Principles of Management
Chapter
Module 2: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Module 3: Financial Analysis and Maintenance Management
Chapter
Module 3: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Module 3: Financial Analysis and Maintenance Management
Chapter
Module 3: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Module 4: Maintenance Management Techniques (1)
Chapter
Module 4: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Module 4: Maintenance Management Techniques (1)
Chapter
Module 4: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Appendix 2: Mathematics Supplement and Appendix 3: Weibull Analysis
Chapter
Appendix 2 and 3 : Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Module 5: Maintenance Management Techniques (2)
Chapter
Module 5: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Module 5: Maintenance Management Techniques (2)
Chapter
Module 5: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
There is no textbook for this unit. However, a Study Guide has been produced and this contains the modules mentioned in the Schedule. The Study Guide is available on the Moodle site.
1 Written Assessment
The assessment item is posted on the course Moodle site; under assessment. You must provide detailed and appropriately referenced descriptions, diagrams, discussions and analysis in order to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of concepts and processes. Failure to adopt this approach will result in you obtaining a lower grade for your submission as you will not be appropriately demonstrating your knowledge and understanding.
Week 5 Friday (11 Aug 2017) 10:00 pm AEST
Friday, end of week 5, 10:00 p.m. AEST
Week 7 Friday (1 Sept 2017)
Two to three weeks after receipt of assessment task
See the course Moodle site for the assessment criteria rubric associated with this assessment item. Ensure you access and read the details outlined in the assessment criteria rubric before commencing the assessment item. As you undertake the assessment item ensure you address all assessment criteria outlined in the rubric.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Ethical practice
- Explain the impact of maintenance on the business of industrial organisations and the need for maintenance management.
- Describe processes for establishing maintenance needs of engineering operations, and developing maintenance plans and strategies, and explain costs and benefits of maintenance management.
- Describe techniques and methods for monitoring the condition of plant and equipment.
- Describe processes used to implement and manage condition monitoring programs for specific applications of plant and equipment.
- Work and learn autonomously to solve problems and record and communicate clearly and professionally the approaches used to solve problems and the rationale for adopting such approaches to problems.
2 Written Assessment
The assessment item is posted on the course Moodle site; under assessment. You must provide detailed and appropriately referenced descriptions, diagrams, discussions and analysis in order to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of concepts and processes. Failure to adopt this approach will result in you obtaining a lower grade for your submission as you will not be appropriately demonstrating your knowledge and understanding.
Week 9 Friday (15 Sept 2017) 10:00 pm AEST
Friday, end of week 9, 10:00 p.m. AEST
Week 11 Friday (29 Sept 2017)
Two to three weeks after receipt of assessment task
See the course Moodle site for the assessment criteria rubric associated with this assessment item. Ensure you access and read the details outlined in the assessment criteria rubric before commencing the assessment item. As you undertake the assessment item ensure you address all assessment criteria outlined in the rubric.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Ethical practice
- Explain the impact of maintenance on the business of industrial organisations and the need for maintenance management.
- Describe processes for establishing maintenance needs of engineering operations, and developing maintenance plans and strategies, and explain costs and benefits of maintenance management.
- Describe techniques and methods for monitoring the condition of plant and equipment.
- Describe processes used to implement and manage condition monitoring programs for specific applications of plant and equipment.
- Investigate and analyse maintenance problems and develop plans to solve these problems.
- Describe methods for assessing maintenance effectiveness and methods for improving maintenance systems and control of maintenance.
- Work and learn autonomously to solve problems and record and communicate clearly and professionally the approaches used to solve problems and the rationale for adopting such approaches to problems.
3 Presentation and Written Assessment
The assessment item is posted on the course Moodle site; under assessment. You must provide detailed and appropriately referenced descriptions, diagrams, discussions and analysis in order to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of concepts and processes. Failure to adopt this approach will result in you obtaining a lower grade for your submission as you will not be appropriately demonstrating your knowledge and understanding.
Week 12 Friday (6 Oct 2017) 10:00 pm AEST
Friday, end of week 12, 10:00 p.m.
Exam Week Friday (20 Oct 2017)
Two to three weeks after receipt of assessment task
See the course Moodle site for the assessment criteria rubric associated with this assessment item. Ensure you access and read the details outlined in the assessment criteria rubric before commencing the assessment item. As you undertake the assessment item ensure you address all assessment criteria outlined in the rubric.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Ethical practice
- Explain the impact of maintenance on the business of industrial organisations and the need for maintenance management.
- Describe processes for establishing maintenance needs of engineering operations, and developing maintenance plans and strategies, and explain costs and benefits of maintenance management.
- Describe techniques and methods for monitoring the condition of plant and equipment.
- Describe processes used to implement and manage condition monitoring programs for specific applications of plant and equipment.
- Investigate and analyse maintenance problems and develop plans to solve these problems.
- Describe methods for assessing maintenance effectiveness and methods for improving maintenance systems and control of maintenance.
- Work and learn autonomously to solve problems and record and communicate clearly and professionally the approaches used to solve problems and the rationale for adopting such approaches to problems.
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
