Maintenance Technologies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures are contrived that way that student is able to accompany them as lectures are going along using the presentations received in advance for single lecture. Lectures are conceived so that they are in accordance with the themes applied at exercises. The active presence with questions and comments at the lectures is welcome.

Learning Outcomes

The students are acquainted with the activities and the duties of the maintenance department, above all in large companies, and are qualified to participate therein, mainly in the boundaries of EU (unification of concepts, terms). They also learn the physical-technical foundations important for the maintenance activity. The students obtain fundamental knowledge for professional management of maintenance work in the company, both for the corrective maintenance and especially for the preventive maintenance on all levels. They also gain the fundamental knowledge necessary to participate and collaborate in investment projects for the field of machinery.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Definitions and terms in the field of maintenance activity. 2. Fundamental and additional duties of the maintenance department. 3. Organizational forms of maintenance department. 4 . Planning and scheduling maintenance work and activity. 5. Technical diagnostics in the maintenance activity. 6. The relation corrective vs. preventive maintenance; explanation of relations, maintenance tree structure, optimizing condition-based maintenance. 7. The effect of maintenance on the machine/plant service life; technical and cost optimization, bathtub curve. 8. Evaluating the efficiency of maintenance. 10. Benchmarking in maintenance. 11. Assessing and managing risks in maintenance, decisions on the replacement of elements or assemblies. 12. Weibull analysis. 13. The cooperation of maintenance professionals (department) in the investment and/or reconstruction planning and execion phase, and later during the machine/plant testing phase. 14. Maintenance technical documentation.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
The exam consists of a written part and oral questioning (50%/50%). Laboratory work (100%). Overall grade is from exam/laboratory work (100%/100%).: 100.0%

Bibliography

1. E. C. Fitch: Proactive Maintenance for Mechanical Systems

2. M. A. Moss: Designing for Minimal Maintenance Expense

3. J. M. Gross: Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance

4. B. W. Niebel: Engineering Maintenance Management

5. H. Wohllebe: Technische Diagnostik im Maschinenbau

6. T. Wireman: Benchmarking Best Practices in Maintenance Management

7. H. V. M. Stewart: Organisation des Reparatur- und Instandhaltungsbetriebes

8. J. D. Campbell, A. K. S. Jardine: Maintenance Excellence.