Reliability and Maintenance Management

The course provides insights and analysis approaches on incorporating reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) into a product or a system, as well as keeping its performance with maintenances in the operational phase. Key topics of this course include: development of a RAM engineering program, requirement analysis, system design principles for RAM, reliability tests and associated data analytics, maintenance planning, maintenance and lifecycle cost analysis, and asset management.

Knowledge, the student has knowledge about:

• Insight on how to incorporate reliability and maintainability in a sociotechnical system, and terminology, concepts and approaches for smart maintenance.

Skills:

• The students shall acquire skills of relevance to join product development teams.
• Students shall also learn how to analyze data collected in the fields and laboratories, and be able to give guidance on data analysis related with reliability engineering and maintenance management.
• The students shall be able to understand maintenance terms and know methods and techniques for planning, scheduling, carrying out and analyzing maintenance.
• The students shall be able to use maintenance optimization models and data analysis techniques in the era of Industry 4.0.
• The students shall be able to comprehensively consider sustainability issues in reliability engineering and maintenance management.

General competence:

• The students shall obtain an understanding of how reliability engineering and maintenance management contribute to high availability, safety and profit and then become an important factor of competitiveness of sociotechnical systems and industrial processes.

Lectures and project and exercises. At least 4 of the exercises must be delivered. The lectures, exercises and examination papers are in English. Students are free to choose Norwegian or English for written assessments.