CMR353 Reliability and Maintenance Engineering Syllabus:

CMR353 Reliability and Maintenance Engineering Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1. To impart knowledge about basic concepts of reliability
2. To learn about various models of reliability
3. To know about maintenance functions and objectives, maintenance planning and scheduling, maintenance organization.
4. To impart knowledge about Principles of CBM, pillars of condition monitoring, CBM implementation and benefits
5. To learn about reliability centered maintenance, TPM and FMECA

UNIT – I BASIC CONCEPTS OF RELIABILITY

Probability distributions used in maintenance engineering- Binomial, Poisson, Exponential, Normal, Log-normal, Gamma and Weibull distribution; failure rate, hazard rate, failure modes, MTTR, MTBF, MTTF

UNIT – II SYSTEM RELIABILITY MODELS

System reliability–n-component series systems, m-component parallel systems and combined system; standby systems; K-out-of-m systems; redundancy techniques in system design; event space, decomposition (Key Stone), cut and tie sets, Markov analysis, reliability and quality, unreliability, maintainability, availability

UNIT – III MAINTENANCE CONCEPTS AND STRATEGIES

Introduction, maintenance functions and objectives, maintenance planning and scheduling, maintenance organization. General Introduction to Maintenance Types: Breakdown, emergency, corrective, predictive, and preventive; maintenance prevention; design-out maintenance, productive maintenance, shutdown maintenance and scheduled maintenance.

UNIT – IV CONDITION BASED MAINTENANCE

Principles of CBM, pillars of condition monitoring, CBM implementation and benefits; condition monitoring techniques- visual monitoring, vibration monitoring, wear debris monitoring, corrosion monitoring, performance monitoring

UNIT – V RELIABILITY CENTERED MAINTENANCE (RCM)

Concept, methodology, benefits; Total Productive Maintenance: Evolution of TPM, TPM objectives, concept, pillars of TPM. Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)/ Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA): Overview, elements of FMECA, applications and benefits, risk evaluation, risk priority numbers, criticality analysis, process FMEA, qualitative and quantitative approach to FMECA; design FMEA and steps for carrying out design FMEA

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

COURSE OUTCOMES:

Upon successful completion of the course the students can able to
CO1: Recognize about basic concepts of reliability
CO2: Know about the various models of reliability
CO3: Apply the various maintenance functions and objectives, maintenance planning and scheduling, maintenance organization.
CO4: Demonstrate Principles of CBM, pillars of condition monitoring, CBM implementation
CO5: Apply the reliability centered maintenance, TPM and FMECA

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Ebeling CE; An Introduction To Reliability & Maintainability Engg McGraw Hill Education; 12th edition , 2017
2. Srinath L.S; Reliability Engineering; East West Press, 2005

REFERENCES:

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6. Dhillon; Engg Maintainability- How to design for Reliability and easy maintenance; PHI, 1999.
7. Davidson John; The Reliability of mechanical system; Institution of Mech. Engineers, London 1994
8. Patrick D.T and O.’Connor; Practical Reliability Engineering; John Wiley and Sons,1991
9. Terje Aven; Reliability and Risk Analysis, Springer Netherlands, 2000