EM 303 - MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT ( Gestão da Manutenção )

Reliability and failure statistics: An introduction to failure statistics; Reliability function and hazard function; Component reliability; The Weibull distribution; Component replacement policies; Reliability of repairable systems and the concept of failure rate; The bath-tub curve; Reliability growth models; The application of failure statistics to maintenance and reliability engineering. Organisation of maintenance: Illustrative examples; Maintenance resource structure; Administrative structure; Work planning and scheduling; Costing; Cost evaluation and cost indices; Cost of downtime; Terotechonoly; The TPM approach. Maintenance planning: Maintenance policies, preventive and corrective; Fixed-time replacement or repair, prior to failure; Condition-based maintenance; Opportunity maintenance; Operation to failure and corrective maintenance; Design-out maintenance; The determination of the maintenance plan; Classification and identification of equipment; Collection of information; Selection of policy; Preventive maintenance programme; Corrective maintenance guidelines; Planned lubrication. Quantitative techniques to maintenance: ABC analysis; Introduction to activity networks; Replacement decisions; Present value; Optimal replacement for equipment; Complex models; Spare inventory control; Simple model for evaluating EOQ; Safety stock; Spare equipment.

Objectives

The aim of this subject is to provide students with an integrated overall view of concepts, techniques and strategies most common used in Maintenance Management. A decision support system for maintenance is presented in order to allow students to solve the main maintenance management problems and to help them making the best decisions.

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