| Effective Term: | 2025/02 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability |
| Unit Title: | Industrial Techniques in Maintenance Management |
| Unit ID: | MREGC5003 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 039999 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit is on industrial techniques useful for maintenance and reliability engineering problem solving. Topics include work measurement, method study and activity sampling applied to maintenance activities. Topics extend to personnel time management, stock control of materials and parts within the maintenance function, stores layout, establishing inventories, and stock levels and re-order levels. Project management techniques are integrated into the unit to show how they can be applied to shutdowns and major maintenance project activities including critical path analysis of networks and analysis of schedules for time requirements using Gantt charts and project evaluation and review technique. Motivation and control of the workforce covering leadership and management in maintenance are also covered. This is an important unit for students interested in practicing good asset management, maintenance and reliability engineering.
This is an important foundational unit for students interested in practicing good asset management, maintenance and reliability engineering. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: No |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | | |  | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Identify opportunities for improvement using industrial engineering tools and techniques for utilisation of resources including human resources relevant to maintenance activities. |
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| K2. | Select network analysis tools and estimate times and conduct resource levelling for planning of inspection and shutdown maintenance projects. |
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| K3. | Recognise factors involved in purchase, supply and stock management for predicting required stock level, ordering time and order quantity of spare parts and maintenance materials. |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Apply industrial engineering tools including activity sampling in maintenance activities and analysing utilisation of resources. |
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| S2. | Identify and apply tools for scheduling covering network analysis, Gantt charts and resource levelling. |
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| S3. | Modelling and analysis of spare part requirements and stock control in plant maintenance and outage plan. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Assess resource utilisation and justify improvement options in maintenance departments. |
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| A2. | Construct Network for maintenance schedule and estimate critical path including benefits of resource levelling. |
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| A3. | Formulate inventory strategy for cost effective stock control of spares and maintenance materials. |
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| Unit Content: |
This unit covers industrial engineering tools, stock control and project management techniques applied to shutdowns and major maintenance project activities.
Topics may include:
1. Industrial engineering techniques.
2. Stock control and spare parts management.
3. CPM Network analysis.
4. Network analysis and PERT techniques.
5. Outage management.
6. Leadership in maintenance and asset management. |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FEDTASKS (Transferable Attributes Skills and Knowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are be embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and Co-operative Learning opportunities. One or more FEDTASK, transferable Attributes, Skills or Knowledge must be evident in the specified learning outcomes and assessment for each FedUni Unit, and all must be directly assessed in each Course.
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| FED TASK and descriptor | Development and acquisition of FEDTASKS in the Unit | | Level | FEDTASK 1
Interpersonal | Students at this level will demonstrate an advanced ability in a range of contexts to effectively communicate, interact and work with others both individually and in groups. Students will be required to display high level skills in-person and/or online in: • Using and demonstrating a high level of verbal and non-verbal communication • Demonstrating a mastery of listening for meaning and influencing via active listening • Demonstrating and showing empathy for others • High order skills in negotiating and conflict resolution skills\\ • Demonstrating mastery of working respectfully in cross-cultural and diverse teams. | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 2
Leadership | Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery in professional skills and behaviours in leading others. • Creating and sustaining a collegial environment • Demonstrating a high level of self -awareness and the ability to self-reflect and justify decisions • Inspiring and initiating opportunities to lead others • Making informed professional decisions • Demonstrating initiative in new professional situations. | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 3
Critical Thinking and Creativity | Students at this level will demonstrate high level skills in working in complexity and ambiguity using the imagination to create new ideas. Students will be required to display skills in: • Reflecting critically to generate and consider complex ideas and concepts at an abstract level • Analysing complex and abstract ideas, concepts and information • Communicate alternative perspectives to justify complex ideas • Demonstrate a mastery of challenging conventional thinking to clarify complex concepts • Forming creative solutions in problem solving to new situations for further learning. | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 4
Digital Literacy | Students at this level will demonstrate the ability to work competently across a wide range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve a range of tasks. Students will be required to display skills in: • Mastering, exploring, evaluating, managing, curating, organising and sharing digital information professionally • Collating, managing complex data, accessing and using digital data securely • Receiving and responding professionally to messages in a range of professional digital media • Contributing competently and professionally to digital teams and working groups • Participating at a high level in digital learning opportunities. | 1 - Yes | FEDTASK 5
sustainable and Ethical Mindset | Students at this level will demonstrate a mastery of considering and assessing the consequences and impact of ideas and actions in enacting professional ethical and sustainable decisions. Students will be required to display skills in: • Demonstrate informed judgment making that considers the impact of devising complex solutions in ambiguous global economic environmental and societal contexts • Professionally committing to the promulgation of social responsibility • Demonstrate the ability to evaluate ethical, socially responsible and/or sustainable challenges and generating and articulating responses • Communicating lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning to be open to the diverse professional others • Generating, leading and implementing required actions to foster sustainability in their professional and personal life | 1 - Yes |
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| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K3, S1, S3, A1, A3 | Analysis and report on utilisation of resources. | Analysis and report | 10% - 30% | | 2. | K1, K2, S1, S2, A1, A2 | Analysis and reports on scheduling maintenance projects. | Analysis and report. | 20% - 40% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3 | Examination/ online test. | Examination/ online test | 40% - 60% |
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