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TPK4140

Maintenance Management

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Credits 7.5
Level Second degree level
Course start Autumn 2024
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement School exam

About

About the course

Course content

In this course we will focus upon the maintenance function as an investment for high dependability, quality and safety.

Topics; Maintenance 4.0, sustainability, maintenance planning, maintenance costs, maintenance concepts, organisation, LCC and LCP, Safety, Vulnerability, Industry 4.0, IoT, Aging, CMMS, KPIs, 5S, pit stop and asset management.

Learning outcome

Knowledge, the student has knowledge about:

  • To present modern basic maintenance theory, especially related to industrial challenges within terminology, maintenance management, concepts, indicators, CMMS, modern analyses within maintenance and maintenance optimization.

Skills:

  • The students shall be able to understand basic maintenance terms and know methods and techniques for planning, scheduling, carry out and analyze maintenance.
  • The students shall get information about the most relevant and future maintenance concepts.
  • The students shall also be able to carry out risk and vulnerability analyses and to use maintenance optimization models.
  • The student shall receive information about the future within maintenance 4.0.

General competence:

  • The students shall obtain an understanding of how maintenance processes and maintenance management contribute to high availability, safety and profit and then becomes an important factor of competitiveness in industrial processes and public administration.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures and project and exercises. At least 4 of the exercises must be delivered. The lectures, exercises and examination papers are in English. Students are free to choose Norwegian or English for written assessments.

Compulsory assignments

  • Exercises
  • Semester Assignment

Further on evaluation

Four exercises must be submitted and approved to be able to take the exam. A mandatory semester paper shall be carried out. The written exam counts 100 % for the grade.

Mandatory work from previous semester can be accepted by the Department by re-take of an examination if there haven't been any significant changes later.

Re-sit examinations will be held in August. The re-sit exam the examination form may be changed from written examination to oral.

Course materials

Textbook, standards and articles.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
SIO3050 7.5 sp
TPK4143 7.5 sp Spring 2006
This course has academic overlap with the courses in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Production and Quality Engineering - Production Management
  • Production and Quality Engineering
  • Technological subjects

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering