MSc Reliability Engineering and Asset Management / Course details

This course unit detail provides the framework for delivery in 20/21 and may be subject to change due to any additional Covid-19 impact.  Please see Blackboard / course unit related emails for any further updates.

1. Maintenance awareness and design. M&R background; parameters that can be usefully used in design: MTTR, MTBF, MWT.
2. Why do systems fail? Learning from Failures. A design perspective and case study based introduction.
3. Design models and evaluation techniques (AHP/ Pugh’s Method / QFD).
4. Decision analysis in maintenance and computerised maintenance management systems (CMMSs).
5. Learning from failure: feedback of information to design - case study.
6. The principles of concurrent engineering. Role of marketing, design and manufacturing in
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concurrent engineering.
7. The process of converting customer requirements to engineering characteristics; the concept of quality function deployment (QFD) and house of quality.
8. Design for X; where X is maintainability, reliability, manufacturability and assembly. Design for manufacturing and design for assembly and concepts and detail.
9. FMEA and FTA in the context of DfR and concurrent engineering.
10. Design of maintenance strategy using multiple criteria and resource allocation.

The objective of this module is to present ways in which reliability and maintainability can be taken into account effectively during design.  It presents the totality of design activity for the whole product and process life cycle, the control and integration of different technical groups, and shows how and when the process can be influenced to improve maintainability and reliability (M&R). Perspectives of design and design constraints will be discussed in order to identify the most appropriate ways in which design can be improved with respect to M&R.
It addresses how design of routines can be improved as an outcome of failures and hence the learning from failures concept
 

1. Maintenance awareness and design. M&R background; parameters that can be usefully used in design: MTTR, MTBF, MWT.
2. Why do systems fail? Learning from Failures.  A design perspective and case study based introduction.
3. Design models and evaluation techniques (AHP/ Pugh’s Method / QFD).
4. Decision analysis in maintenance and computerised maintenance management systems (CMMSs).
5. Learning from failure: feedback of information to design - case study.
6. The principles of concurrent engineering. Role of marketing, design and manufacturing in concurrent engineering.
7. The process of converting customer requirements to engineering characteristics; the concept of quality function deployment (QFD) and house of quality.
8. Design for X; where X is maintainability, reliability, manufacturability and assembly. Design for manufacturing and design for assembly and concepts and detail.
9. FMEA and FTA in design and concurrent engineering.
10. Reliability of systems; analysis of the design of serial and parallel systems, redundancy concept.
11. Design of maintenance strategy using multiple criteria and resource allocation.

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