MAJOR TOPICS AND HIGHLIGHTS

covered in the

AME 577-Maintainability Engineering Course

Offered Each Spring Semester

Course Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.

 

  • The Maintainability Engineering Concepts, Their Great Benefits and Their Applications.
  • System Effectiveness and Operational Readiness Defined, Quantified and Applied.
  • Maintenance and Maintainability Put in the Right Perspective.
  • Fifteen (15) Maintainability Design Criteria to Minimize Equipment Downtime.
  • Downtime Distributions and Their Parameters.
  • Maintainability and Its Quantification.
  • Analytical Maintainability Engineering Functions Analogous to Those in Reliability Engineering.
  • Mean Time to Actively Restore Equipment to Successful Function.
  • Mean Maintenance Man-Hours.
  • Mean Maintenance Man-Hours to Repair Failed Parts and Replace Them in Their Equipment.
  • Mean Time for Corrective, and Preventive Maintenance and Schedules.
  • Maintainability Specifications for Quantifying Maintainability.
  • Eleven (11) Maintainability Demonstration Tests, Their Sample Size Determination, and Their Implementation.
  • Quantified Sixteen (16) Different Preventive Maintenance Policies, Their Advantages and Their Optimization.
  • Retention of the Value of Equipment Through Maintainability-Cost Considerations.
  • Age and Block Preventive Replacement Policies.
  • Periodic Preventive Replacement Policies.

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  • Modified Block Preventive Replacement Policies.
  • Additional Maintenance Policies.
  • Overhaul Policies.
  • Spare Parts Provisioning and Determination of the Optimum Spares Kits at Minimum Cost and at a Desired Assurance Level.
  • Distributional Test and Repair Times in a Test and Repair Facility, and the Quantification of the Maintainability and Downtime of the Equipment Involved.
  • The Weibull Process of Repairable Units.
  • The Reliability of Components with a Policy of Replacing Those That Fail by a Prescribed Operating Time.
  • The Reliability of Maintained Equipment When Keeping Track of the Ages of All Components with Exponential and Weibullian Distributions.
  • The Reliability of Maintained Systems with Redundancy Using the Markov Chain Approach.
  • The Quantification of the Availability of Maintained Systems Using the Markov Chain Approach.
  • Seven (7) Different Steady State Availabilities and Their Quantification.
  • Numerous Practical Applications and Case Histories.


 

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