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Unit Synopsis
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
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 3 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
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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.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 15% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 25% |
| 3. Presentation and Written Assessment | 60% |
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%).
Past Exams
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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.
Source: Student's email & SUTE
Overall rating of the unit delivery.
Recommended to make the real-life case studies, alive maintenance examples more accessible for the students.
Current industry case studies and maintenance examples have been sourced and delivered to students.
Source: SUTE
Clear and useful feedback.
Recommended to keep providing high-class elaborated feedback showing how a student lost marks, providing a written explanation of the answer, and indicating the fruitful sources.
Clear and informative feedback was provided, indicating how the marks had been lost and how they could be improved.
Source: Students' comments
Materials sourced from more varied resources could enhance the lecture.
Since the class is multi-disciplinary, recommended, examples in the lecture should be added from different engineering discipline areas, so as the assessment setting.
Source case studies, examples from mining and bulk handling engineering and construction engineering; these have been delivered to students.
Source: SUTE
Maintenance data for assignments were hard to source.
Recommended, Lecturer to help sourcing the data, also recommended that the lecturer should offer information on the required data set for students.
UC collected and provided data for assignment works for those who failed to source a company.
Source: Unit Evaluation
Useful learning materials in-accessibility.
Strongly recommended to improve the accessibility to learning materials including enhancing quality of the materials.
New videos, articles, short stories and case studies have been sourced for the class.
Source: SUTE
Students are looking for enhanced learning materials.
Content-relevant short videos and case studies on industry maintenance practices for students should be made available in the unit Moodle site.
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Overall impression of the unit delivery.
Modern industry maintenance practices, examples, case studies, and sufficient feedback on assessments for learning and other areas of delivery should be enhanced.
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Clear and useful feedback in assessment marking.
Keep providing elaborate feedback indicating how the assessment item has lost marks, how it should be improved, and how and where they can learn more.
In Progress
Source: SUTE
Students prefer to have clear scope of the unit in Wk 1 delivery.
A clear understanding of unit content, scope, and assessment items should be provided in the first lecture of the Term in the next offering.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- 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.
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| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
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