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IDS 241: Maintenance for Reliability

Course Description

Applies advanced instrumentation in conjunction with principles of mechanical physics, vibration and particulate analysis, thermography, and advanced reliability concepts relative to precision/predictive maintenance of industrial equipment.

 

Competency Areas

Hours

 

Concepts of  Reliability Centered Maintenance

Class

4

Precision maintenance

D. Lab

6

Predictive maintenance

P. Lab/O.B.I.

0

Reliability Data Analysis

Credit

7

Preventive Maintenance (PM)

 

 

 

 

 

Prerequisite/Corequisite:

IDS 221, IFC-101, IFC-102

 

 

 

 

 

Course Guide

 

Competency

After completing this section, the student will:

Hours

Class

D.Lab

P.Lab/

O.B.I.

Concepts of Reliability Centered Maintenance

12

0

0

 

List the primary tenets of reliability centered maintenance

 

 

 

 

State the economic importance for implementing reliability centered maintenance

 

 

 

Precision maintenance

Describe the concept of precision maintenance

 

 

 

 

List the main principles of precision maintenance

 

 

 

Predictive maintenance

Describe the concept of predictive maintenance

 

 

 

 

List the main principles of predictive maintenance

 

 

 

Preventive maintenance

Describe the concept of preventive maintenance

 

 

 

 

List the main principles of preventive maintenance

 

 

 

Condition monitoring

List the types of equipment parameters that can be beneficially monitored.

 

 

 

 

Discuss the criteria governing periodic sampling and continual monitoring.

 

 

 

Precision Maintenance

10

18

0

Precision installation and setup

Explain critical factors in machine setup.

 

 

 

 

Demonstrate ability to properly level a machine

 

 

 

 

Explain techniques to avoid pipe stress.

 

 

 

 

Describe key elements in proper machine mounting.

 

 

 

 

Demonstrate proper torquing procedures and techniques.

 

 

 

Bearings: selection, precision installation, and  clearances

Describe the importance for proper bearing clearances.

 

 

 

 

List the factors that influence proper bearing clearances .

 

 

 

 

Demonstrate the ability to select the correct bearing from manufacturers’ charts.

 

 

 

Precision alignment procedures

List types of alignment

 

 

 

 

Describe leveling techniques.

 

 

 

 

Describe methods of aligning parallel shafts

 

 

 

 

List methods of end-to-end shaft-to-shaft alignment

 

 

 

 

Demonstrate rim-face method

 

 

 

 

Demonstrate reverse dial method

 

 

 

 

Demonstrate laser method 

 

 

 

Predictive Maintenance

6

12

0

 

Oil contaminant analysis

List the major types of contaminants that lead to early machine failure.

 

 

 

 

State the methods for measuring the contaminants.

 

 

 

 

Describe types of failures that can be avoided by monitoring contaminants.

 

 

 

Thermal monitoring

List devices useful in monitoring machine temperatures.

 

 

 

 

List types of problems that can be detected by thermal monitoring.

 

 

 

Electrical current monitoring

Describe the concept and reasons for monitoring.

 

 

 

 

List types of problems that can be detected by electrical current monitoring.

 

 

 

Vibration analysis

State the difference between waveform and spectral analysis

 

 

 

 

Describe the failure modes that can be predicted by vibration analysis.

 

 

 

 

Demonstrate the practical ability to recognize and characterize various failure signatures.

 

 

 

 

Demonstrate knowledge of proper corrective actions for various vibration  modes

 

 

 

Data collection

List methods of collecting condition-based equipment data.

 

 

 

 

State the differences and explain the applications of on-line and sampled data.

 

 

 

Reliability Data Analysis

6

14

0

Software analysis tools

Discuss the applications and needs for software analysis.