Across all sectors of engineering, including oil and gas, mining, utilities, defense and manufacturing, many plants and installations are operating beyond their nominal design life, raising concerns for potential loss of hazardous materials and adverse business impact. This course will help students determine the key threats from ageing equipment and how to plan and implement a life extension strategy for managing them. Also, students will get to understand how knowledge of the vulnerabilities, deterioration and obsolescence and loss of organizational competence can be used to develop a strategy for managing ageing-related risks. The course will further introduce students to fundamental reliability engineering concepts, such as reliability-based maintenance, condition monitoring, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Risk Based Inspection (RBI), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), and how they relate and can enhance an organizations Asset Management Plan. Thus, students in this course will learn the characteristics of functional failure, how to identify and apply the most suitable maintenance strategies and much more.
Course ID: SAFEN 618
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 3 | - | - |
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