MANE 4015U – Reliability and Maintenance

Introduction to life-cycle costing for equipment acquisition, operation, and replacement decision-making; designing for reliability and determination of optimal maintenance and replacement policies for both capital equipment and components. Topics include: identification of an item’s failure distribution and reliability function; reliability of series, parallel and redundant systems design configurations; time to repair and maintainability function; age and block replacement policies for components; the economic life model for capital equipment; provisioning of spare parts.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Tutorial hours: 1
Prerequisite(s): STAT 2800U