Overview
Engineers are often required to evaluate the performance of various types of engineering assets. The ability to analyse maintenance data and develop effective maintenance plans are important skills for today’s engineers. This unit will introduce you to asset maintenance standards, strategies, philosophies, and procedures, including the basic principles of asset management systems. You will investigate and report on key concepts relating to asset and maintenance management in engineering organisations. You will learn the fundamentals of asset maintenance and management strategies, reliability, and life cycle engineering of assets to maximise and optimise their value. You will gain insight into the governing ISO standards and their application in real-world scenarios. You will learn how to use different diagnostic tools such as failure mode effect and critical analysis, reliability-centred maintenance, and collect and analyse maintenance data in several engineering contexts. These learning objectives will be achieved through successful completions of online quizzes, a group project, and an individual assignment. This knowledge will help to predict the future reliability performance of operating assets, as well as to develop and recommend appropriate maintenance strategies for different engineering assets.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
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).
Offerings For Term 3 - 2026
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).
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- Grades and Results Policy
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- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
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- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
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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.
Feedback from UC reflection
Students would benefit from personalised consultation with the lecturer.
The lecturer should provide extra consultation time for the required students.