Overview
This unit introduces you to the importance of effective maintenance management in the 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 delineates 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-requisite: ENEG12007 Design and Project Management OR ENTA11014 OR Aircraft Structural Maintenance Practices.
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).
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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.
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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 Unit Evaluation data
Enhance feedback on assignment.
Continue to add comments to students’ submitted assignments but also explore grading sheets based on the marking rubric for students to see grade distribution/calculation.
Feedback from Unit Evaluation report
Assignment marking in due time.
Recommend returning all assessments within two weeks of the due date or after students with extensions have submitted.
Feedback from Unit Evaluation report and UC reflection
Source industry data for assessment items for real life skills development.
Recommended to continue sourcing individual industry projects for data collection and processing the collected data for their assessment items.
- Explain the impact of maintenance on the business of industrial organisations and the need for maintenance management
- Describe processes for developing maintenance strategies and plans including explanations of costs and benefits of maintenance management
- Analyse 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
- Apply 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.
The Learning Outcomes for this unit are linked with the Engineers Australia Stage 1 Competency Standards for Professional Engineers in the areas of 1. Knowledge and Skill Base, 2. Engineering Application Ability and 3. Professional and Personal Attributes at the following levels:
Introductory
Intermediate
Advanced
Refer to the Engineering Undergraduate Course Moodle site for further information on the Engineers Australia's Stage 1 Competency Standard for Professional Engineers and course level mapping information
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 | |||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Online Study Guide Available on Unit Moodle website
- Zoom Lecture and Tutorial Sessions
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
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Module/Topic
Module 1: Introduction to plant maintenance; Appendix 1: Terminology
Chapter
Module 1: Study guide in unit Moodle website
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment 1 Task
Part A: Project Topic Verification: prior to Friday of Week 1
Zoom lecture & Tutorial sessions
Module/Topic
Module 1: Introduction to Maintenance Organisation Strategy
Chapter
Module 1: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Assessment 1 Task: Part A:
Written verification of acceptance prior to the Monday of Week 2 from your lecturer.
Zoom lecture & Tutorial sessions.
Module/Topic
Module 2: Theories of Maintenance Management
Chapter
Module 2: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Zoom lecture & Tutorial sessions. Check regular announcement on unit Moodle website.
Module/Topic
Module 2: Financial Analysis of maintenance; Asset Life Cycle Cost Analysis
Chapter
Module 2: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Zoom lecture & Tutorial sessions. Check regular announcement on unit Moodle website.
Module/Topic
Handout 1: Condition monitoring technology and Processes
Chapter
Handout and lecture notes (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Zoom lecture & Tutorial sessions. Check regular announcement on unit Moodle website.
Assessment Task 1 (Part B): Maintenance data collection Due: Week 5 Friday (5 Apr 2024) 12:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
VACATION
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
NO TEACHING THIS WEEK
Module/Topic
Module 3: Method study technique in maintenance; Work measurement in maintenance
Chapter
Module 3: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Zoom lecture & tutorial sessions. Check regular announcement on unit Moodle website.
Module/Topic
Module 3: Maintenance activity sampling; Application of queuing theories
Chapter
Module 3: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Zoom lecture & tutorial sessions. Check regular announcement on unit Moodle website.
Module/Topic
Module 4: Maintenance Management Techniques
Chapter
Module 4: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Zoom lecture & tutorial sessions. Check regular announcement on unit Moodle website.
Module/Topic
Module 4: Statistical analysis of plant failure; Failure probability characteristics
Chapter
Module 4: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Zoom lecture & tutorial sessions. Check regular announcement on unit Moodle website.
Module/Topic
Appendix 2: Failure mode and criticality analysis (FMECA); Reliability of plant systems. Appendix 3: Weibull Analysis
Chapter
Appendix 2 and 3 : Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Zoom lecture & tutorial sessions. Check regular announcement on unit Moodle website.
Assessment Task 2: Statistical data analysis for maintenance Due: Week 10 Friday (17 May 2024) 12:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Module 5: Statistical process control; Pareto failure modelling
Chapter
Module 5: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Zoom lecture & tutorial sessions. Check regular announcement on unit Moodle website.
Module/Topic
Revision on Module 5
Chapter
Module 5: Study guide (Access on Moodle Site)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Zoom lecture & assignment 3 drop-in sessions.
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 items. This is only a basic outline of the features relating to the assessment task. This assessment has two parts.
Part A:
Project Topic Verification - Identification of an appropriate Maintenance Problem currently exists in your organisation.
Prior to Friday of Week 1 you need to discuss and submit the 'Identification of Maintenance Problem: Proposal Form" to your lecturer’s CQU email address and then receive written verification of acceptance prior to the Monday of Week 2 from your lecturer regarding the appropriateness and viability of your chosen organisation and the identified maintenance problem as a focus for all assessment tasks in this unit.
Part B:
Outline Organisational Description including Organisational Structure existing in the organisation and Define Maintenance Problem
The aim of Assessment 1 is to select one problem or opportunity within the maintenance function within your chosen organisation that could be solved using basic concepts of maintenance, management theories, maintenance principle and maintenance management techniques and principles presented in your Study Guide.
Remember your study approach should not be limited to unit Study Guide only. You are encouraged to study and investigate further beyond the unit materials.
You will need to complete and submit through the Assessment submission link in the unit Moodle website, an appropriately referenced, written investigative report, including appropriate descriptions, analysis, documentation with appropriate figures, charts and tables support relevant to your assessment task.
Study Module 1 and Module 2 in your Unit Study Guide should be supportive to complete your Assessment 1.
Week 5 Friday (5 Apr 2024) 12:00 am AEST
Title page essential. Please submit only Microsoft Word document. No PDF file Submission will be accepted for any task.
Week 7 Friday (26 Apr 2024)
Expected return 2 weeks after submission due date.
Refer to the Moodle site for complete details of the Assessment Criteria sheet for Assessment 1. 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 and Interpretation, Communication and Information Literacy. Please read carefully the details outlined in the Assessment 1 Assessment Criteria sheet before commencing the assessment item.
As you undertake the Assessment 1 ensure you address all assessment criteria outlined.
- Explain the impact of maintenance on the business of industrial organisations and the need for maintenance management
- Describe processes for developing maintenance strategies and plans including explanations of costs and benefits of maintenance management
2 Written Assessment
Develop an investigative report on the Maintenance Problem you have chosen as a project in your Assessment 1. This report should cover In-depth problem Analysis, conduct relevant literature review and develop solutions as strategies to solve the maintenance problem.
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 2.
The aim of Assessment Task 2 is to discuss in detail upon your chosen maintenance problem, defined in Assessment 1, and to provide detailed insights into the technique you will adopt to address this problem. Your solution needs to focus upon using concept of maintenance, theories of management, maintenance management techniques and principles presented in Unit Study Guide available in the unit Moodle website.
You need to Study Module 3, Module 4 and Module 5 in your Unit Study Guide. As you have already studied Module 1 and Module 2 to define your project for Assessment 1, it should be supportive in your report writing for this Assessment. should be supportive to complete your Assessment 1.
Remember your study approach should not be limited to unit Study Guide only. You are encouraged to study and investigate further beyond the unit materials.
You will need to complete and submit through the Assessment submission link in the unit Moodle website, an appropriately referenced, written investigative report, including appropriate descriptions, analysis, documentation with appropriate figures, charts and tables support relevant to your assessment task.
Week 10 Friday (17 May 2024) 12:00 am AEST
Title page is essential. Please submit only Microsoft Word document No PDF file Submission will be accepted for any task
Week 12 Friday (31 May 2024)
Assessment feedback should be available 2 weeks after submission.
Refer to the Moodle site for complete details of the Assessment Criteria sheet for Assessment 2. 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. Please read carefully the details outlined in the Assessment 2 Assessment Criteria sheet before commencing the assessment item.
As you undertake the Assessment 2 ensure you address all assessment criteria outlined.
- Explain the impact of maintenance on the business of industrial organisations and the need for maintenance management
- Describe processes for developing maintenance strategies and plans including explanations of costs and benefits of maintenance management
- Analyse 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
- Apply methods for assessing maintenance effectiveness and methods for improving maintenance systems and control of maintenance
3 Presentation and Written Assessment
To complete Assessment 3 you will develop and submit two items:
- Your Video Presentation file for the project, and
- Your PowerPoint Presentation Slides
Refer to the Moodle site for complete details of the Assessment 3. 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.
The aim of Assessment 3 is to present complete solution for your project undertaken, in a cohesive and holistic form. In investigating, analysing and finding an appropriate solution to the maintenance problem you have chosen in Assessment 1, you need to use maintenance management techniques, theories, principles and modelling extensively (e.g. Financial Analysis/Modeling, Life Cycle Management and Cost Modelling, Work Study, Queuing Theory, Statistical Failure Analysis, Reliability/RAMS Modelling FMECA, Planned Maintenance Optimisation, Pareto Analysis, Control Charts, etc.).
Review/Exam Week Friday (7 June 2024) 12:00 am AEST
Please submit PowerPoint document and Presentation video.
Exam Week Friday (14 June 2024)
Assessment feedback and final grade will be available after unit moderation.
Refer to the Moodle site for complete details of the Assessment Criteria sheet for Assessment 3. 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 and Interpretation, Communication and Information Literacy. Please read carefully the details outlined in the Assessment 3 Assessment Criteria sheet before commencing the assessment item.
As you undertake the Assessment 3 ensure you address all assessment criteria outlined in the assignment document. Accurate reflection of your knowledge on Statistical Failure Analysis, Reliability/RAMS Modelling FMECA, Planned Maintenance Optimisation, Pareto Analysis, Control Charts must be demonstrated.
- Analyse 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
- Apply 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.
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