Course Code: EAS437
Synopsis
It will provide students with an understanding on how maintenance programmes are developed and managed both in the civilian and military aerospace sectors. Designing and evaluating reliability-centred maintenance systems will be studied. Local case studies will be used in assessments and seminar discussions.
Level: 5
Credit Units: 5
Presentation Pattern: EVERY SPECIAL SEMESTER
Topics
- Development of maintenance programmes
- Definitions, goals and objectives of aerospace maintenance
- Failure patterns study
- Analysis of functions and failures
- P to F curve; condition monitoring and on-condition maintenance
- Life cycle of RCM
- Designing a reliability-centred maintenance system
- RCM methodologies
- MSG-3 techniques
- Requirements for a maintenance programme, and failure finding
- Organising maintenance reliability board
- Measurement of reliability and maintenance performance
Learning Outcome
- Discuss the development of maintenance programmes
- Analyse functions and failures
- Evaluate the requirements for a maintenance programme, and failure finding
- Recommend methodologies to study the life cycle of RCM
- Formulate a failure patterns study scheme
- Construct methods to carry out condition monitoring and on-condition maintenance
- Assess the design process of a reliability-centred maintenance system (Practical Component)
- Appraise MSG-3 techniques