Unit Code: PMM432

Unit Name: Maintenance Management

Description: This unit offers students a variety of projects and exercises to make subjective and objective decisions. It also facilitates practising numerous logical analytical reasoning for a variety of problems and for students to learn how to manage maintenance works for plants and machinery. This course will provide an overview of the essential skills relevant to managing cross-disciplinary engineering and science-based teams in industries. Such teams are typically responsible for new product development, getting innovations to market, developing new technologies, implementing product improvement or establishing or improving organizational infrastructure. Students will focus on the fundamental skills and applications of engineering and science management and will be introduced to the relevant business and engineering topics to be successful in this field. The purpose of this course is to prepare students with a technical background to become effective team leaders. It covers a wide range of management and leadership issues that industries face today from individuals to teams to entire organizations. It includes individual differences, personnel diversity, motivation in the workplace, managing individual stress, interpersonal communication, managing interpersonal conflicts and negotiation, team building, leadership models and styles, decision-making in organizations, organizational culture and managing change.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, you should be able to: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the types of organizational structures, the role of maintenance, time management and leadership roles and understanding of maintenance documentation, types of maintenance and what contract maintenance is. 2. Demonstrate an understanding of Plant Safety, Shop Safety, Field Safety, Shop & Field Efficiency and understanding of the different Levels of Planning, Short-Range Planning and Day-to-Day Planning. 3. Demonstrate an understanding of Scheduling, Factors Affecting Scheduling, Techniques and Emergency Work and understanding of the Purpose of Preventive Maintenance, Placing Equipment on Preventive Maintenance, Scheduling Preventive Maintenance and Predictive Maintenance and describe Inventory Control Stages, Procurement, Receiving & Distributing Restocking. 4. Demonstrate an understanding of Planning & Organizing, Staffing & Communicating, Supervising the Job, and Controlling the Job and demonstrate the ability to evaluate the Program, Materials Use, Labour Use, and Control Factors and also demonstrate an understanding of Computerized Work Request Systems, Computerized Inventory Control, Computerized Management Reports.

Prerequisite: MER

Prerequisite Sentence: Minimum Entry Requirement of the programme

Credit Point: 5

Offered In: Quarter 3