Smart Operations and Model-based Maintenance Engineering (IAM510)
In the era of industry 4.0, industrial assets need to be engineered and managed in a smart manner. The trend is to build industrial assets that are safe, modular, automated, unmanned, autonomised, monitored, cognitive, predictive and prescriptive, besides being dependable, i.e. reliable, maintainable, and supportable. Such smart industrial assets need another level of maintenance engineering to enable the physical assets to be ready for smart operations. The course starts by enabling the students to gain a comprehensive understanding and hands on the traditional risk-based maintenance approach (based on NORSOK Z-008) and learn basic maintenance engineering tasks. Then, the courses further teach the transition from document-based maintenance engineering into model-based, using the model-based systems engineering approach. Moreover, the course enables students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the transition from the traditional operation and maintenance management into more digitalised and smart operations to manage maintenance workload, manpower, spare parts, and other resources. The course emphasises the "design for" philosophy and develops assets, at the project phase, that are ready for the smart operations at the utilisation phase.
Course description for study year 2023-2024. Please note that changes may occur.
Course code
IAM510
Version
1
Credits (ECTS)
10
Semester tution start
Spring
Number of semesters
1
Exam semester
Spring
Language of instruction
English
Content
The course is compiled of five modules.
Module 1 is about risk-based maintenance and model-based maintenance engineering, where requirements, functional, physical, and parametric elements of industrial systems are analyzed, modeled and evaluated.
Module 2 is about the Project execution model, which is used as a work process to design, engineer and build industrial systems with their maintenance programs, and their project stages and decision gates.
Module 3 is about Maintenance Engineering methods, based on NORSOK Z-008, such as technical hierarchy, functional hierarchy, consequence classification, failure mode analysis, system reliability, availability and maintainability evaluation, maintenance task selection, manning study, and spare parts evaluation.
Module 4 is about cost and benefits analysis using analytical and simulation modelling approaches, where capital expenditures (CAPEX), operating expenditures (OPEX), Lifecycle costing (LCC), and potential lifetime benefits (LTB) are evaluated.
Module 5 is about Strategic Maintenance Planning and Digital\Cloud maintenance management systems.
Learning outcome
By completing this course, the students shall gain the following knowledge, skills and competencies:
Knowledge
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of risk-based maintenance and model-based maintenance engineering, and its four elements: requirements, functional, physical, and parametric elements.
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the well-known project execution model used in the industry, and its project stages and decision gates.
- Gain a theoretical and practical understanding of Maintenance Engineering methods: technical hierarchy, functional hierarchy, consequence classification, failure mode analysis, system reliability, availability and maintainability evaluation, maintenance task selection, manning study, and spare parts evaluation.
- Gain a theoretical and practical understanding of capital expenditures (CAPEX), operating expenditures (OPEX), Lifecycle costing (LCC), and potential lifetime benefits (LTB).
- Gain a theoretical and practical understanding of Strategic Maintenance Planning and Digital\Cloud maintenance management systems
Skills
- Be able to build a model-based maintenance and test concept, covering its four elements: requirements, functional, physical, and parametric elements.
- Be able to apply the project execution model considering the project stages and decision gates.
- Be able to perform the Maintenance Engineering methods: technical hierarchy, functional hierarchy, consequence classification, failure mode analysis, system reliability, availability and maintainability evaluation, maintenance task selection, manning study, and spare parts evaluation.
- Be able to model and estimate capital expenditures (CAPEX), operating expenditures (OPEX), Lifecycle costing (LCC), and potential lifetime benefits (LTB).
- Be able to set up Strategic Maintenance Plan and handle Digital\Cloud maintenance management systems
General competence
- Can analyze relevant academic, professional, and research ethical problems.
- Can work in teams and plan and manage projects.
- Can apply his/her knowledge and skills in new areas in order to carry out assignments and projects.
- Can communicate about academic issues, analyses and conclusions in the field, both with specialists and the general public
Required prerequisite knowledge
Exam
Project assignment and oral presentation
| Form of assessment | Weight | Duration | Marks | Aid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project assignment | 9/10 | Letter grades | ||
| Oral presentation | 1/10 | Letter grades |
The course has an ongoing assessment consisting of a project assignment 90% and an oral presentation 10%.All assessment parts must be passed to achieve an overall grade in the course.There are no re-sit opportunities on the project assignment, if students want to take this part again, they must take the course again the next time the course is lectured.Students who do not attend the presentation cannot expect to take this part again. If there is a valid absence, the student can, by agreement with the subject teacher, complete the presentation at a later date.
Coursework requirements
Assignments, Project Report, Oral Presentation and Open exam.
Obligatory report and presentation based on Group work. An additional individual Oral Assessment if the Report or presentations are not satisfactory.
Obligatory requirements must be approved by the responsible lecturer within the given deadline.