Overview

This unit aims to develop students understanding and specialised knowledge of maintenance management in construction and manufacturing industries with a focus on maintaining buildings, engineering assets and infrastructure facilities.

Requisites

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Associate reliability principles and risk assessments to appraise life cycle of different types engineering assets (K5, K6, S4, A1, A4, A5, A6)
  • Apply reliability-based maintenance and plant reliability engineering methods for sustainable performance in asset/facility life cycle (K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7)
  • Interpret and apply the concept of asset criticality (K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7)
  • Identify and classify Faults and Failures of engineering assets and components (K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7)
  • Employ FMEA, FMECA, RCM, FTA and RPN analysis for maintenance management of engineering assets (K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7)
  • Appreciate building maintenance requirements and apply relevant methods, materials, equipment and procedures for built facilities/ assets (K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7)
  • Develop and/ or apply maintenance analysis, maintenance programmes, performance measurements, reports, documentation and records(K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7)

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Lecture		2.00 12 weeks 24
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Tutorial		1.00 12 weeks 12
Online Contact (Phasing out)
Synchronous Tutorials		1.00 12 weeks 12
Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning		1.00 12 weeks 12
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning		7.50 12 weeks 90
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Class Exercise PortfolioIndividual 20 - 30% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 
ProjectIndividual/Group 30 - 60% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 
TestIndividual 20 - 50% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 

Content

This unit has following 3 components:

Component 1: Maintenance Management of Buildings and Engineering Assets – Part 1

  • Assets, asset Management, life cycle of assets
  • Reliability of assets as the key principle of performance, quality, safety and sustainability.
  • Asset performance reliability
  • Asset maintenance management, definition, function, place in the organisation.
  • Maintenance as capability assurance function
  • Maintenance management reporting and measurements (KPA, KPI)
  • Maintenance philosophy, strategy, objectives, programmes and planning
  • Maintenance root cause analysis (FMECA, MTTM, MTBF, CMMS)
  • Quality and risk mitigation framework in maintenance management

Component 2: Maintenance Management of Buildings and Engineering Assets – Part 2

  • Plant reliability as a component of co-quality system
  • RCM - reliability centred maintenance
  • Reliability based engineering, reliability modelling
  • Assessment of assets risks, safety and reliability. application of FMEA, FMECA, RPN, block diagrams and FTA.
  • Types of maintenance
  • Maintenance of plant and equipment

Component 3: Maintenance Management of Buildings and Engineering Assets – Part 3

  • Introduction to building maintenance 
  • Materials, equipment and systems for building maintenance
  • Permissions/ approvals for maintenance works
  • Maintenance contracts and documentation
  • Development and optimisation of maintenance programs
  • Organisation of maintenance.
  • Sustainability focus in maintenance 

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.