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definition and realisation.
Design research and development
FMECA and LSA, adaptive design and off-the-shelf design
options. Equipment trialling, testing and demonstration;
user requirements, engineering requirements, reliability,
maintainability, maintenance and logistic support
requirements, trials, tests and demonstration plans and
contracting for reliability.
Maintenance strategy
Types and approaches, preventive maintenance, condition
monitoring, on condition maintenance and breakdown
maintenan:;. Maintenance economics and ORTL.
Integration and commissioning process
Systems management and systems effectiveness, the
operational system, the maintenance sub-system, the
training and documentation package, ISR and inventory
stocking levels, and warrants period.
Maintenance operations
Maintenance planning and control, work planning, resource
analysis and allocation, plant inventories and records. Repair
parts scaling and spares assessment:^. Maintenance activities;
repair and performance and condition monitoring, replace,
diagnose, isolate, test, calibrate, overhaul, rebuild,
rectification, downtime and equipment availability.
Maintenance access and creation of maintenance windows.
Measures of maintenance effectiveness.
Configuration
Configuration control and modification.
Decommissioning, disposal and system replacement.
Recommended reading
Byrt, W.J. and Masters, P.R., The Australian Manager. 2nd edn,
Melbourne, Macmillan, 1982
Corder, A.S., Maintenance Management Techniques. London,
McGraw-Hill, 1976
Cunningham, C.E. and Cox, W., Applied Maintainability
Engineering. New York, Wiley, Inter Science, 1972
Dhillon, B.S. and Reiche, H., Reliability and Maintainability
Management. New York, Van Nostrand Rheinhold, 1985
Kelly, A., Maintenance Planning & Control. London,
Butterworths, 1984
Moss, M.A., Designing for Minimal Maintenance Expense The
Practical Application of Reliability and Maintainability. New
York, M. Dekker, 1985
Content: Occu~ational Risk
Occupational hygiene: methods and limitations of sampling
and measurement of contaminants, control aspects of
occupational hygiene.
Toxicology: routes of entry, dose-response relationships,
threshold limit values and other measures applied to
chemicals, noise, vibration and radiation.
Chemical hazards and effects: solvents, dusts, welding fumes,
heavy metals, sensitisation, cancer, respiratory and other
systemic effect; respiratory protection against dusts, mists
and vapours, equipment types, effectiveness and program
requirements.
Radiation: ionising and non-ionising, uses and applications,
damage-risk criteria, control methods.
Biological hazards: Legionaire's disease, zoonoses, AIDS,
bacterial infection, principals and control.
Engineering risk control for external energy sources
mobility of energy source and recipient, passive and active
control, organisational requirements for control.
Engineering risk control for internal energy sources
principals or organisational and technical controls.
Application of event synthesis techniques machines,
processes.
Application of event analysis technique to a class of events,
application of fault tree analysis, machines, processes capable
of experiencing that class of events.
Machinery safeguarding design legal principals and
requirements, design methodology.
Isolation procedures and work permit systems definitions,
isolation and work permit procedure components, factors
influencing design, reliability of procedures.
Electrical safety: effects of electricity on the human body,
MEN electrical system, earth leakage circuitry breaker and
applications, EMR, spectral characteristics, effects on human
body elements.
Fire and explosion: principles and practices, ignition
sources, fuels, fire loading computations, detection and
control, codes of practice.
Recommended reading
Atherley, G.R.C., Occupational Health and Safety Concepts
Chemical and Processing Hazards. London, Applied Science,l978
Brown, D.B., Systems Analysis and Design for Safety. Englewood
Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, 1976
Cooper, W.F., Electrical Safety Engineering. 3rd edn, London,
Butterworth, 1993
Harrington, J.M. and Gill, F.S., Occupational Health. Oxford,
Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1983
Hertz, D.B. and Thomas, H., Risk Analysis and Its Applications.
Chichester, Wiley, 1983
International Study Group on Risk Analysis. Risk Analysis in the
Process Industries. Rugby, I.C.E., 1985
Institution of Chemical Engineers. Nomenclature for Hazard and
Safety Handbook. Rugby, The Institution of Chemical Engineers,
1985
Content: Technology Modelling
The art of modelling mathematical and physical modelling.
An introduction to the tools; materials; techniquee and
process of modelling.
Fundamentals of modelling and diagnostics.
The modelling process needs, Objectives, understanding
phenomena, literature, systems and subsystems, refinement,
verification and communication; modelling materials:
fundamental physical laws, constitutive relations, equations
of engineering science, derived formulae, constraints,
sources.
Buildine, - techniques Objectives, failure models; system
diagrams; decomposing into subsystems; parameter
bookkeeping; assembling the system and dimensional
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