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TPK4140

Reliability and Maintenance Management

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Credits 7.5
Level Second degree level
Course start Autumn 2025
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Aggregate score

About

About the course

Course content

The course provides insights and analysis approaches on incorporating reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) into a product or a system, as well as keeping its performance with maintenances in the operational phase. Key topics of this course include: development of a RAM engineering program, requirement analysis, system design principles for RAM, reliability tests and associated data analytics, maintenance planning, maintenance and lifecycle cost analysis, and asset management.

Learning outcome

Knowledge, the student has knowledge about:

  • Insight on how to incorporate reliability and maintainability in a sociotechnical system, and terminology, concepts and approaches for smart maintenance.

Skills:

  • The students shall acquire skills of relevance to join product development teams.
  • Students shall also learn how to analyze data collected in the fields and laboratories, and be able to give guidance on data analysis related with reliability engineering and maintenance management.
  • The students shall be able to understand maintenance terms and know methods and techniques for planning, scheduling, carrying out and analyzing maintenance.
  • The students shall be able to use maintenance optimization models and data analysis techniques in the era of Industry 4.0.
  • The students shall be able to comprehensively consider sustainability issues in reliability engineering and maintenance management.

General competence:

  • The students shall obtain an understanding of how reliability engineering and maintenance management contribute to high availability, safety and profit and then become an important factor of competitiveness of sociotechnical systems and industrial processes.

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

Further on evaluation

  • Four assignments need to be finished.
  • Presentation on a relevant topic and group works on project report.
  • All assessments must be passed before the overall result in the course can be calculated.
  • Semester project accounts 30% of the final grade.
  • The written exam accounts 70% of the final grade.
  • The re-sit exam is arranged in August.
  • If there is a re-sit examination, the examination form may be changed from written to oral.
  • By a re-take of the course, all assessments during the course that counts in the final grade have to be re-taken.

Course materials

The course material can be downloaded from Blackboard.

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