Smart Operations, Maintenance and Industrial Logistics (IAM510)

Content

This course covers operations, maintenance, and logistics in the Industry 4.0 era where a new set of principles and technologies have enabled and revolutionized the classical operations, maintenance, and logistics, fields. Throughout the course, we will explore various facets of these important practical disciplines.

Smart operations & maintenance section includes for example;

• Operations & Maintenance Management Fundamentals theories & methods

• Operations and Maintenance strategies and maintenance concepts

• Operations & Maintenance Planning and Scheduling,

• Capacity planning and Manning studies,

• Maintenance concepts and Techniques,

• Reliability-Availability-Maintainability (RAM) Analysis,

• Risk-based Maintenance practices, Technical hierarchy, functional assemsents and consequence classification,

• Maintenance and test concept selection, Failure modes, effect & criticality analysis (e.g. FMECA)

• Technical and Safety integrity studies

• Life Cycle Costing and Lifetime Benefit and remaining useful life Analysis (e.g. LCC, LCA, RUL),

• Operations and Maintenance management trends and future directions,

• Maintenance management systems as a tool for smart operations,

• Continuous improvement & optimization of maintenance performance,

• Industry 4.0 Technologies for smart operations & maintenance, as well as smart operations & maintenance from sustainability perspectives.

Industrial logistics section covers for example;

• Introduction to Logistics in the Context of Industrial Asset Management,

• Offshore logistics vs Onshore logistics,

• Different Supply chain models and Service provision scenarios related to Onshore and Offshore logistics for modern industry,

• Demand predictions, Capacity planning and Resource allocations,

• Inventory and Inventory Management,

• Warehouse Engineering and Warehouse Management,

• General bottlenecks in Logistics, Approaches and measures to debottleneck, Logistics in the era of Industry 4.0, and Sustainability driven practices.

Learning outcome

By completing this course, the students shall gain the following knowledge, skills and competencies:

Knowledge

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the importance and impact of operations, maintenance management, and logistics on modern industrial assets and infrastructures.
• Gain a theoretical and practical understanding of engineering and management methods, principles, legislation, and best practices within operations, maintenance, and logistics.
• Gain theoretical and practical knowledge that can be used for analysis, development, and innovation in modern operations, maintenance, and logistics domains.
• Gain the ability to analyse practical or academic problems related to operations, maintenance, and logistics of industrial assets based on history, traditions, and industrial and societal needs.

Skills

• Can analyse existing theories, apply methods, and interpretations related to operations, maintenance, and logistics and work independently with practical and theoretical problem-solving.
• Can use relevant methods and knowledge related to operations, maintenance, and logistics for research and professional development independently.
• Can analyse and relate critically to various sources of information on operations, maintenance, and logistics and use them to structure and formulate practical and/or academic arguments in terms of industrial assets.
• May conduct an independent, limited research or development project related to operations, maintenance, and logistics of industrial assets under supervision and in accordance with current research ethical standards.

General competence

• Can analyze relevant academic, professional, and research ethical problems within operations, maintenance, and logistics.
• Can apply knowledge and skills to carry out advanced tasks and projects both individually and in groups related to operations, maintenance, and logistics.
• Can communicate about academic issues, analyses and conclusions within the fields of operations, maintenance, and logistics, both with specialists and the general public, and contribute to new thinking and innovation processes

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