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Course Catalog 01/02


Business Adm and Social Science

IEK054 Dependability and Maintenance I 6.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
Q3

LANGUAGE:Swedish

EXAMINER
Per-Anders Akersten Adj prof


PREREQUISITES
Mathematical statistics according to any one of IEK001, IEK003, IEK005, IEK007, IEK010, IEK011 or IEK020, or corresponding course.

COURSE AIM
To provide general knowledge of concepts, techniques and tools, and strategies within the area of dependability and maintenance.

CONTENTS
General introduction, the maintenance concept, maintenance costs, dependability concepts. Failure definitions, dependability issues in design. Reliability, maintainability, and maintenance support. Analysis of life-length data. Exponential and Weibull distributions, trend tests. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA). Human reliability. Reliability centred maintenance (RCM), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Life cycle costing. Condition monitoring: tools, techniques and strategies.

TEACHING


EXAMINATION

COURSE GRADE SCALE:

ITEMS/CREDITS
Project work 1.50ECTS
Written exam 4.50ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
Bergman, B. & Klefsjö, B. (2001). Tillförlitlighet. Studentlitteratur, Lund.
Supplementary material.

REMARKS
The course is given within the Centre for Dependability and Maintenance, in cooperation between the Divisions of quality technology & statistics, operations & maintenance, and machine elements.

Further information: International Office

Valid for the academic year 01/02.

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