MSc Maintenance Engineering & Management - E542
1.
Aim and Objectives
Maintenance Engineering and Management is a critical component in boosting the
competitiveness of the agricultural, manufacturing and service industries in the local/regional
context. It is a multidisciplinary field, which includes engineering management techniques,
quality control, project management, planning & control, and the application of mechanical,
electrical, electronics and IT knowledge to improve the availability and functionality of
production systems, service provider systems, general public infrastructure among others.
The aim of the programme is to impart to participants from the various sectors the state of the
art technical and managerial expertise. This will enable enterprises to gain a competitive edge
on the global market.
2.
General Entry Requirements
Successful completion of an undergraduate degree with
•
•
at least a Second Class or 50%, whichever is applicable or
a GPA not less than 2.5 out of 4 or equivalent, from a recognised higher education
institution.
OR alternative qualifications acceptable to the University of Mauritius.
3.
Programme Requirements
(i) Applicants should hold at least a Second Class Degree in any Science or Engineering
field.
(ii) Preference will be given to candidates having at least two years of relevant experience.
4.
General and Programme Requirements – Special Cases
The following may be deemed to have satisfied the General and Programme requirements for
admission:
(i)
Applicants who do not satisfy any of the requirements as per Regulations 2 and 3
above but who submit satisfactory evidence of having passed examinations which are
deemed by the Senate to be equivalent to any of those listed.
(ii)
Applicants who do not satisfy any of the requirements as per Regulations 2 and 3
above but who in the opinion of Senate submit satisfactory evidence of the capacity
and attainments requisite to enable them to pursue the programme proposed.
(iii)
Applicants who hold a full practising professional qualification obtained by
examination.
5.
Programme Duration
The Programme will be offered on a part-time basis. The duration of the Graduate
Programme should normally not exceed 4 years (8 semesters).
Normal
4 Semesters
4 Semesters
2 Semesters
Master’s Degree:
Postgraduate Diploma:
Postgraduate Certificate
Maximum
8 Semesters
8 Semesters
8 Semesters
6.
Credits per Semester: Minimum 3 credits subject to Regulation 5.
7.
Minimum Credits Required for the Award of
Master’s Degree:
Postgraduate Diploma:
Postgraduate Certificate:
36
27
12
Breakdown as follows:
Master’s Award:
Postgraduate Diploma:
(where applicable)
Postgraduate Certificate:
(where applicable)
8.
Core Taught
Modules
(Minimum)
Dissertation
21 credits
21 credits
9 credits
Electives/
Optional Modules*
6 credits
6 credits
12 credits
Assessment
Students are required to register for modules, which they intend to follow in a given semester
on date(s) specified by the Faculty.
Each module will carry 100 marks and will be assessed as follows (unless otherwise
specified):
Written examination of 3-hour duration and continuous assessment of 10% to 40% of total
marks.
Continuous assessment may be based on laboratory work, and/or assignments and should
include at least one class test.
For a student to pass a module, a minimum of 30% should be attained in both of Continuous
Assessment and Written Examination separately, with an overall total of a minimum of 40%
in that module.
All modules carry equal weightage irrespective of levels.
The project is equivalent to 9 credits.
Submission Deadlines for project:
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•
1st draft: end July of final year
Final copy: Last working day of August of final year.
9.
Planning
Students are required to submit at the end of Semester I a Plan of Study for their whole
Programme of Studies, indicating the list of Elective Modules and in which Semester each of
them will be taken.
The University reserves the right not to offer a given Elective Module (if the critical number of
students is not attained and/or for reasons of resource constraints).
10.
List of Modules
Hr/wk
CORE MODULES
MECH 6151
MECH 6152
MECH 6261
MECH
MECH
MECH
MECH
ENGG
6262
6153
6171
6302
6000
Fundamentals of Maintenance
Maintenance Planning & Control
Failure Analysis & Condition Based
Maintenance
Reliability & Maintainability
Surface Engineering
Safety Engineering
Statistical Process Control
MSc Project
MECH
MECH
MECH
MECH
11.
6180
6181
6182
6183
45
45
45
3
3
3
45
45
45
45
3
3
3
3
9
Hr/wk
ELECTIVES MODULES
Vibration Analysis
Data Management
Maintenance of Automated Systems
Project Management
Credits
45
45
45
45
Credits
3
3
3
3
Programme Plan - MSc Maintenance Engineering and Management
Level 1
Semester 1
Code
Semester 2
Module
Hrs/Wk Credits Code
Module
Hrs/Wk Credits
L+P
L+P
CORE
CORE
MECH 6151 Fundamentals of
MECH 6261 Failure Analysis & Condition
3+0
3
3+0
3
Maintenance
Based Maintenance
MECH 6152 Maintenance Planning
MECH 6153 Surface Engineering
3+0
3
3+0
3
& Control
MECH 6302 Statistical Process
MECH 6262 Reliability & Maintainability
3+0
3
3+0
3
Control
Level 2
Semester 1
Code
Module
CORE
MECH 6171 Safety Engineering
Semester 2
Hrs/Wk Credits Code
Module
L+P
CORE
3+0
3
ENGG 6000 MSc Project
ELECTIVES
Elective module
Elective module
3+0
3+0
3
3
Hrs/Wk Credits
L+P
9
12.
Outline Syllabus
MECH 6151 - FUNDAMENTALS OF MAINTENANCE
Importance of Maintenance in Industry/organisation/utilities for optimising lifespan of
water/wastewater/electrical plant and equipment; Definition of Maintenance objectives with respect to
the following factors: Plant output, Plant safety, Plant Life, Corporate objectives, Maintenance
resources; Asset management: Plant acquisition policy and Life-Cycle Costs (LCC) - Presentation of
a case study; Facilities investment decisions (FID) & factors influencing FID with focus on
maintenance; Modelling of an industrial plant & Mapping of facility units (machinery) on the plant
layout; Models for optimising the balance of preventive and corrective work; Selection of the best
maintenance procedure in the light of cost and safety factors; Principles of Planned Preventive
Maintenance (PM); Development of a unit (machine) life plan using preventive maintenance (PM)
approach for each machinery/equipment; Development of a Maintenance Manual for each unit life
plan; Development of a Planned Preventive Maintenance schedule; Introduction to Total Productive
Maintenance; Industrial case studies.
MECH 6152 - MAINTENANCE PLANNING & CONTROL
The principles of work planning and work control; Modelling of work planning and sub-systems;
Maintenance Scheduling methods; Estimation of the Maintenance workload: schedule and nonschedule works; Maintenance Management control; Maintenance Documentation systems;
Development of a Maintenance work order system (categories, type of information), work request &
performance report; Work planning and the relationships between planners, foremen and maintenance
crew for logistics planning with regards to safety, cost and time constraints; Data collection for
maintenance performance indices; Debriefing of maintenance interventions and actions; Introduction
to computers in maintenance management; Industrial case studies.
MECH 6261 - FAILURE ANALYSIS & CONDITION BASED MAINTENANCE
General troubleshooting: causes of failures, and root causes; Machinery component failures;
Machinery Troubleshooting approaches; Sneak analysis (pre-event troubleshooting tool for
electrical/electronics systems); Integrated Condition Based Maintenance; Machine Life cycles; Trend
Monitoring; Parameter Symptom limits; System set-up; Computerised Condition Based Maintenance;
Introduction to sensors; Hard-wired and hand-held/portable collector methods; Thermal monitoring:
Principles and instruments; Lubricant monitoring: Principles and instruments; Introduction to
vibration: Basic concepts and definitions, sources of vibration, common vibration measuring
instruments; Introduction to knowledge based systems (artificial intelligence) for machinery failure
diagnosis. Costing for condition based monitoring.
MECH 6262 - RELIABILITY & MAINTAINABILITY
Introduction: definition of reliability, statistical description of item failure pattern, implications for
maintenance; Graphical analysis of item failure data; Failure pattern and Bath Tub curve; Calculation
of the MTBF, MTTR; Factor of Safety & Reliability; Reliability and Hazard Functions; Modelling of
Failure Rates; Failure Mode and Effect Criticality Analysis (FMECA); Fault Tree Analysis (FTA);
Maintainability Analysis; Reliability Centred Maintenance; Risk Assessment using Hazard and
Operability (HAZOP) analysis; Industrial Case Studies
MECH 6302 - STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL
Quality Control Tools; The seven statistical quality control tools; System & Process capability;
Capability Indices; Measurement Capability Studies; Statistical Software Packages; Control Chart for
Attributes; Variables and Attributes data; Attribute control charts namely P, NP, C & U Charts; The
Pareto Principle and Pareto Charts; Control Chart for Variables; Distribution of Sample Means; The
X bar and R chart. Interpretation; relating to Specifications; Process Capability; Short Run SPC; X bar
S charts; Interpreting Control Chart patterns; Rules for Zone analysis; Assignable and Common
causes of variation; CUSUM charts; The Quality Gurus and their contribution to SPC. E. Deming:
94% rule; W. Shewart. K. Ishikawa: Seven SPC tools; G. Taguchi: Closeness to Target; The Quality
Loss function; Concept of Control; Implementing SPC & TQM: Establishing a Control Plan;
Breakthrough Activities Applying the Deming Cycle; Case study & workshop.
MECH 6153 - SURFACE ENGINEERING
Nature of surfaces and their contact (surface integrity aspects); Surface & sub-surface analysis (2D &
3D surface texture measurement, metallurgical analysis, microhardness, X-ray diffraction) and testing
(Destructive and Non destructive testing techniques); Corrosion: fundamental principles, forms of
corrosion (galvanic, pitting, crevices, intergranular, bio-corrosion, etc), environmental and design
aspects, corrosion prevention techniques (alloys, coating, anodic and cathodic protection); Tribology:
Friction (possible causes of friction, adhesion theory, rolling friction), Wear phenomena (adhesive,
abrasive, fatigue, erosion, corrosion, fretting), techniques to minimise wearing problems, lubrication
(lubrication regimes, properties and testing of lubricants); Heat treatment of steels: Hardening, case
hardening, annealing, tempering.
MECH 6171 - SAFETY ENGINEERING
Principles of safety engineering applied to production systems; Environmental factors – influence of
factors, namely, noise, heat, electrical hazards, vibration, radiation, lighting, and air contaminants in
the workplace; Work in Confined Spaces, Fire Safety, Storage of Flammable Materials, Fire and
Explosion Hazards and Precautions; Environmental Pollution and Waste Management; Accident
prevention; Safety Management Techniques; Material handling safety; Plant & machinery safety
systems and equipment: guards, mechanical and electrical/electronics interlocking systems and
personal protection equipment; Safety and related biological effects; Safety Standards and Mauritian
legislation on Health & Safety Aspects; ILO vis a vis Mauritian laws.
MECH 6180 - VIBRATION ANALYSIS
Vibration, sources, frequencies & natural frequency; Vibration and noise identification/classification
chart; ISO Standards; Free and forced vibrations; Vibration measuring parameters: Displacement,
Velocity and Acceleration; Interpretation of vibration measurements: Peak & RMS levels;
Introduction to the concept of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT); Time domain and frequency domain
spectrum for signal analysis; Acoustical evaluations of vibrations; Determination of natural frequency
& resonance problem; Constant percentage bandwidth spectra; Vibration spectra for: Imbalance
(static and dynamic balancing), Misalignment, Mechanical Looseness, Electric motor conditions, AC
and DC, Gear defects, Rolling element bearing defects, Rotor Dynamics, Reciprocating engines and
compressors defects; Whirling of Shafts and Critical speeds; Design of Vibration Isolators and
Absorbers.
MECH 6181 - DATA MANAGEMENT
Information flow; Fuzzy Logic; Artificial Intelligence and Expert System in Maintenance
Management; Neural Network in maintenance; Product Data Management (PDM); Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP); Application of computers in Maintenance; Computer networking; Training
of operators for failure analysis and data management.
MECH 6182 - MAINTENANCE OF AUTOMATED SYSTEMS
Electrical & electronics circuit design and analysis; Sensors: Analog & Digital; PLC systems:
Installation, Maintenance and Troubleshooting; Installation and commissioning of a CNC machine
system; Troubleshooting of a CNC machine; Maintenance of servo drive systems; Basic circuits in
pneumatics and hydraulics; Basic circuits in electropneumatics and electrohydraulics;
Troubleshooting of electropneumatic and electrohydraulic systems; Electrical testing methodologies
& techniques; Retrofitting for low cost automation.
MECH 6183 - PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Use of Bar & Gantt charts, Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), Critical Path Method
(CPM), Introduction to GERT and VERT. Evaluation of the maintenance resources (men, spares,
tools, information) and estimation of resources needed to carry out the maintenance workload:
Resource and administrative structures should be identified and planned. Development of a layout for
proper mapping of maintenance resources (men, spares, tools, information) in order to minimise
maintenance intervention time. Function of stores, stock control of spare parts: procurement (supplier
rating), inventory policies: reorder level, EOQ model; ABC & XYZ analysis; inventory costs. The
relationship between the plant inventory, the information base, the preventative maintenance
schedule, condition monitoring documentation, the work planning, shutdown planning and control
systems. Decision Support Systems. Introduction to advanced techniques for reliability analysis:
Markov analysis and Simulation techniques. Teamwork, Motivation, Leadership, Interpersonal and
Organisational Communication.
ENGG 6000 - MSc PROJECT
The students are required to undertake a major piece of work individually in order to demonstrate
their ability to analyse and syntheses a real problem, and use specific engineering and/or managerial
tools related to the field of Maintenance to propose relevant solutions. Students should also be able to
demonstrate their critical thinking ability.