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 - 2018
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 Telephone and email communications
Some students found it challenging to write a formal report, with an argumentative essay focus, literature review, and adopting appropriate Harvard referencing protocols.
Students need to ensure they follow the helpful and focused advice provided in the assessment item descriptions by the unit coordinator. This also includes, as strongly advised by the unit coordinator, seeking the advice and help from our Learning Centre staff (report/essay writing) and our Librarians (in accessing and using maintenance engineering databases, how to conduct and formulate a literature review and how to adopt the appropriate use of Harvard referencing protocols). This unit is an excellent lead-in of the skill development for their final year project and supports and helps students to develop these skills.
Feedback from Telephone and email communications
This unit involves defining, investigating, critically analysing and resolving an authentic maintenance engineering problem. Some students did not access an authentic industry project and chose to define their own project and did not access/provide enough scope nor data to credibly investigate, critical analyse nor resolve the maintenance problem.
It is extremely important students negotiate with an industry partner in defining, investigating, critically analysing and resolving an authentic maintenance engineering problem. There are then two options. Option 1: Do not enrol in this unit as an elective. It is focussed on an authentic scenario. Option 2: Where students do not access an industry partner they must define an authentic focused project, ensuring they have an appropriate, and relevant amount of information to enable them to investigate, critically analyse and resolve the maintenance engineering problem. Where a student does not meet these requirements they will not achieve well in this unit. This unit is an excellent lead in to of the skill development for their final year project and supports and helps students to develop these skills.
Feedback from Telephone and email communications
Some students did not access the detailed information provided with regards information, advice, focus and formatting of assessment items.
Students need to access the detailed information provided with regards information, advice, focus and formatting of assessment items, and adopt and act upon it.
Feedback from Telephone and email communications
Some students found it challenging to present their final assessment item as a PowerPoint and video.
Students need to develop these necessary skills of being able to present information and outcomes to an audience. This includes being able to explain detailed and technical information, data analysis and justification for decisions and outcomes, in a range of different media formats (including a recorded/live/video format), in a confident and competent manner.
Feedback from Telephone and email communications
Some students did not engage regularly with the unit's Moodle site, the study materials provided nor the information and advice provided in Moodle postings.
Students need to regularly and be consistent in their engagement with the Moodle site and the study materials provided. Students need to be proactive in engaging in accessing and acting upon the information and advice provided in Moodle postings of information and advice.
- 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
Project Topic Verification: prior to Friday of Week 1
Before commencing these assessment items you need to discuss, submit the 'Identification of Maintenance Problem: Proposal Form" and have received written verification, prior to the Friday of Week 1, from your lecturer of the appropriateness and viability of your chosen organisation and the identified maintenance problem as a focus for all assessment tasks in this unit.
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
1 Written Assessment
Refer to the Moodle site for complete details of the assessment item. This is only a basic outline of the features relating to the assessment task. 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. If you are repeating this unit you must define, investigate and remedy a different maintenance problem than what you did previously. Project Topic Verification: prior to Friday of Week 1 - Before commencing these assessment items you need to discuss, submit the 'Identification of Maintenance Problem: Proposal Form" and have received written verification, prior to the Friday of Week 1, from your lecturer of the appropriateness and viability of your chosen organisation and the identified maintenance problem as a focus for all assessment tasks in this unit. The aim of Assessment Task 1 is to for you to select one problem or opportunity within the maintenance function within your organisation or from your previous organisation or an organisation chosen by you or a fictitious organisation that could be solved using one of the techniques presented in Module 4 or 5 of your Study Guide. This is designed to have the student apply learning from this unit to the solution of a problem in their own workplace. You will need to complete an appropriately referenced, written investigative report, including appropriate descriptions, analysis, documentation and photographic support.
Week 5 Friday (10 Aug 2018) 10:00 pm AEST
Week 7 Friday (31 Aug 2018)
Refer to the Moodle site for complete details of the Assessment Task 1 Assessment Criteria sheet; weightings and focus of assessment criteria vary for each assessment task. This is only a basic outline of the features relating to the assessment task. Each submission will be assessed for presentation and layout, correct procedure, analysis and accuracy and appropriate referencing. The major assessment criteria relate to Analysis & Interpretation, Communication and Information Literacy. Ensure you access and read the details outlined in the Assessment Task 1 Assessment Criteria sheet before commencing the assessment item. As you undertake the assessment item ensure you address all assessment criteria outlined. Also, at the completion of the assessment item, prior to submission, undertake an audit to ensure you have appropriately addressed all assessment criteria.
- 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.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Ethical practice
2 Written Assessment
Refer to the Moodle site for complete details of the assessment item. This is only a basic outline of the features relating to the assessment task. 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. The aim of Assessment Task 2 is to elaborate upon your chosen maintenance problem, defined in Assessment Task 1, and to provide preliminary insights into the technique you will adopt to address this problem. Your solution needs to focus upon using one of the techniques presented in Module 4 or 5 of your Study Guide. This is designed to have the student apply learning from this unit to the solution of a problem in their own workplace.You will need to complete an appropriately referenced, written investigative report, including appropriate descriptions, analysis, documentation and photographic support.
Week 9 Friday (14 Sept 2018) 10:00 am AEST
Week 11 Friday (28 Sept 2018)
Refer to the Moodle site for complete details of the Assessment Task 1 Assessment Criteria sheet; weightings and focus of assessment criteria vary for each assessment task. This is only a basic outline of the features relating to the assessment task. Each submission will be assessed for presentation and layout, correct procedure, analysis and accuracy and appropriate referencing. The major assessment criteria relate to Analysis & Interpretation, Communication and Information Literacy. Ensure you access and read the details outlined in the Assessment Task 2 Assessment Criteria sheet before commencing the assessment item. As you undertake the assessment item ensure you address all assessment criteria outlined. Also, at the completion of the assessment item, prior to submission, undertake an audit to ensure you have appropriately addressed all assessment criteria.
- 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.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Ethical practice
3 Presentation and Written Assessment
Refer to the Moodle site for complete details of the assessment item. This is only a basic outline of the features relating to the assessment task. 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.The aim of Assessment Task 3 is to draw everything together in a cohesive and holistic form. In investigating, analysing and finding a remedy to the maintenance problem you have chosen in Assessment Task 1, you need to use any one of the techniques presented in Module 4 or 5 of your study materials (eg. Work Study, Queuing Theory, Statistical Failure Analysis, FMECA, Pareto Analysis, Control Charts, etc.).
You will need to submit two items, a video presentation, including (separately) an appropriately referenced, set of the Powerpoint slides you presented in the video, with appropriate descriptions, analysis, documentation and photographic support.
Week 12 Friday (5 Oct 2018) 10:00 pm AEST
Exam Week Friday (19 Oct 2018)
Refer to the Moodle site for complete details of the Assessment Task 1 Assessment Criteria sheet; weightings and focus of assessment criteria vary for each assessment task. This is only a basic outline of the features relating to the assessment task. Each submission will be assessed for presentation and layout, correct procedure, analysis and accuracy and appropriate referencing. The major assessment criteria relate to Analysis & Interpretation, Communication and Information Literacy. Ensure you access and read the details outlined in the Assessment Task 3 Assessment Criteria sheet before commencing the assessment item. As you undertake the assessment item ensure you address all assessment criteria outlined. Also, at the completion of the assessment item, prior to submission, undertake an audit to ensure you have appropriately addressed all assessment criteria.
- 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.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Ethical practice
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?
