ENQ530 Asset and Facility Management
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| Unit code: | ENQ530 |
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| Equivalent(s): | ENN530 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,044 |
Unit Outline: Session 2 2025, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | ENQ530 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | ENN530 |
Overview
Professionals are often involved in the management of processes and infrastructure including transportation, water, energy, buildings and telecommunications. In today's business environment, the safe and efficient maintenance and management of these assets and associated risks is critical. The professionals need to know how to manage the whole of life cycle of assets; organise maintenance based on condition and reliability assessments; and create as well as implement effective safety and environmental, asset management and maintenance plans so as to meet the business objectives of the organisation.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Understand and appreciate whole life cycle management for engineering assets and infrastructure
- Understand and appreciate various types of maintenance strategies and management techniques
- Have an awarness of reliability theory, practical reliability engineering, condition monitoring techniques and their applications
- Be able to assess causes of failure and undertake FMECA
- Understand techniques for maintenance management, planning and logistics
Content
This unit will cover the following topics (note that except for point 2 below all content is the same as ENN530):
1. Overview of advanced engineering asset management concepts ( Overview should include all assets of company, indicating that management of human and knowledge assets are covered in other units available in BQ87. Financial asset management is not covered); Overview of maintenance engineering, procedures responsibilities and tasks.
2. Overview of Safety and Environmental management of processes and engineering infrastructure assets (Advanced knowledge available in ENN532).3. Maintenance Organisation & control
4. Reliability Statistics and reliability engineering;
5. Component Reliability; Data collection and analysis; Probability Plotting
6. System Reliability and Availability
7. Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA) and FMECA
8. Condition monitoring and assessment technology
9. Reliability Centered Engineering - Industry perspectives
10. Quantitative techniques for maintenance planning
11. Fault tree and Event tree Analysis
12. Risk Analysis and management
13. Strategic Asset Management and decision support
Learning Approaches
You will be engaged in an active learning environment, undertaking regular online activities, guided through the learning process by expert teaching staff who provide regular feedback. On average, you will need to dedicate 12–15 hours each week for your learning that includes readings, discussions with peers and assignments.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback from your lecturer during various stages of your project and also after assessment of your finished project and your presentations. Feedback will also come from your team members.
Assessment
Overview
QUT's Assessment Policy is located at MOPP c/5.1
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Assignment 1: Part A – Problem-solving task
Students will solve problems relating to the reliability analysis and risk assessment. This will be a timed assessment. Once started, students will be required to complete the assessment in a specified period of time.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Assignment 1: Part B – FMEA and Reliability Analysis
Students will need to individually conduct an FMEA analysis on a product of their choice and submit a report. Additionally, students are required to do some reliability data analysis on some failure time data and compute some related quantities.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Assignment 2: Group research project
Students will be provided a research topic related to asset management and are required to work together as a team to conduct the project and submit a report. The assessment also includes an individual oral presentation of each student’s work.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
The resources required are reading materials including, but not limited to the recommended texts listed below.
Resource Materials
Other
- An introduction to reliability and maintainability engineering; Ebeling, Charles E. ; 2010 ; 2nd ed
- Reliability, Maintainability and Risk : Practical Methods for Engineers; Smith, David J. ; 2014 ; 4th ed.
- Practical reliability engineering ; O'Connor, Patrick D. T.; Kleyner, Andre. ; 2012 ; 5th edition
- Productivity and Reliability-Based Maintenance Management, Second Edition. ; Stephens, Matthew P. ; 2022 ; 2nd ed.
- Physical asset management : with an introduction to the ISO 55000 series of standards; Hastings, Nicholas Anthony John, author.; 2021 ; Third edition.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.BQ87 Master of Engineering Management
- Apply advanced engineering management knowledge, concepts and practices in managing engineering systems and assets
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, Assignment 1: Part A – Problem-solving task, Assignment 1: Part B – FMEA and Reliability Analysis, Assignment 2: Group research project - Critically analyse and evaluate complex engineering management problems to achieve research informed solutions
Relates to: ULO4, Assignment 1: Part A – Problem-solving task, Assignment 1: Part B – FMEA and Reliability Analysis - Apply systematic approaches to plan, design, execute and manage an engineering management project
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, ULO4, ULO5, Assignment 1: Part B – FMEA and Reliability Analysis, Assignment 2: Group research project - Communicate complex information effectively and succinctly, presenting high level reports, arguments and justifications in oral, written and visual forms to professional and non-specialist audiences.
Relates to: ULO5, Assignment 1: Part A – Problem-solving task, Assignment 1: Part B – FMEA and Reliability Analysis, Assignment 2: Group research project - Organise and manage time, tasks and projects independently, and collaboratively demonstrating the values and principles that shape engineering management decision making and professional accountability.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO5, Assignment 2: Group research project