MSc Reliability Engineering and Asset Management

Auditing is a practical hands-on process and the skills to be acquired are a mixture of technical and human skills. The course is designed to allow the students to develop these skills progressively in practice through an actual assessment carried out on an industrial site with a host company – Recent hosts have included Eon Power, Corus, Warwick Chemicals and PepsiCo.

Discuss the vital role of Maintenance and Asset Management in supporting the achievement of organisational goals. Explain the importance of auditing asset management & maintenance departments.

Describes an overall audit methodology and its associated procedures, models and techniques
Provides practical experience of applying the methodology and its associated procedures, models and techniques to carry out an assessment and reporting results in a structured way so as to promote commitment to the development and implementation of performance improvement plans.

Auditing is a practical hands-on process and the skills to be acquired are a mixture of technical and human skills. The course is designed to allow the students to develop these skills progressively in practice through an actual assessment carried out on an industrial site with a host company – Recent hosts have included Eon Power, Corus, Warwick Chemicals and PepsiCo.

The course is delivered as 5-full days of teaching and subsequent discussion through the online Blackboard system.

Understand all of the factors which must be taken into account to carry out a maintenance assessment

Cope with situations where there is either too much or too little data

Conduct interviews, analyse records, assess the state of equipment

Make a compelling case for change. Convince the host organisation of the need to change and the best way to achieve it

Provided in person or via the Blackboard system.

Maintenance Benchmarking and Best Practices by Ralph W Peters 
Maintenance Management Audit: A Step-By-Step Workbook to Better Your Facility's Bottom Line by Harvey H. Kaiser 
The Maintenance Scorecard: Creating Strategic Advantage by Daryl Mather 
Benchmarking Best Practices in Maintenance Management by Terry Wireman 
Maintenance Management Auditing by Anthony Kelly
Excellence in Maintenance Management by Stuart Emmett & Paul Wheelhouse Cambridge Academic
ISBN 978 1903 499 65 8 (2011)
ISO 55,000 parts 1, 2 & 3 
Relevant articles also at: http://www.plant-maintenance.com/maintenance_articles.shtml.