Postgraduate - UnitMRE5004 - Asset management techniques

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Engineering
Offered	Gippsland Second semester 2015 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Indra Gunawan

Synopsis

Asset operations optimisation (also called total productive maintenance), reliability driven maintenance (also called reliability centred maintenance), designing for operability and maintainability (including Hazops and the Bretby maintainability index analyses) and value methodology.

Outcomes

This unit will develop:

Knowledge of a number of asset management techniques that assist with the optimisation of asset performance and the minimisation of resources used and risk;
Appreciation of the application of these quantitative techniques to solving a variety of real-life asset management problems; and
Systematic ways of:
improving reliability, availability and maintainability
optimising asset performance

It will cover key areas of asset management requirements:

Strategy Development & Optimisation
Costing, Budget & Risk
Logistic & Inventory
Assets & Systems

Assessment

4 project based assignments

Workload requirements

150 hours of study

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor David Paganin