Maintenance Management

• Graduate Certificate in Maintenance Management
• Graduate Diploma of Maintenance Management
• Masters of Maintenance Management
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Program Structure

The CQUniversity Maintenance Management Program is actually a suite of three programs. Students can enrol into and exit after completion of the initial qualification of Graduate Certificate in Maintenance Management or the more advanced Graduate Diploma of Maintenance Management or complete the suite of programs by continuing onto a Master of Maintenance Management.

Graduate Certificate in Maintenance Management (CV65)

The Graduate Certificate in Maintenance Management program requires completion of four course units which can be completed over one to two years. It provides the foundation for the program, establishing an integrated framework of knowledge and skills essential for effective maintenance management. This program provides a holistic business-centered view of the maintenance function.

The program requires completion of four core courses:

ENMM20010 Introduction to Maintenance Engineering

 

This course provides an overview and introduction to asset management and maintenance engineering within an industrial organisation, including:

• Business centred Maintenance 
• Systems view of maintenance 
• Models of maintenance 
• Maintenance financial analysis 
• Reliability centred maintenance 
• Failure Analysis/Criticality/Root Cause Analysis
• Maintenance analysis techniques 
• Maintenance and the environment 

ENMM20011 Establishing the Maintenance Strategy

This course covers the essential elements of an effective asset maintenance strategy, including:

• Establishment of maintenance objectives 
• Life plans, schedules and life cycle costs 
• Capital asset management 
• Reliability centered maintenance
• Controlling asset reliability / maintainability 
• Preventive maintenance 
• Scheduled / unscheduled maintenance
• Formulating the maintenance strategy 
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) 

ENMM20012 Maintenance Organisation 

This course considers the organisational contexts associated with operationalising maintenance strategy in the modern industrial organisation, including:

• The complexity of industrial organisations 
• Modelling the maintenance organisation 
• The maintenance workload 
• Maintenance resource structures 
• Maintenance administrative structures 
• Human factors in maintenance organisations 
• Trends in maintenance organisation 
• Total productive maintenance (TPM) 
• Case studies 

ENMM20013 Maintenance Systems & Documentation

This course builds on the concepts covered in the maintenance strategy and maintenance organisation courses, to develop a comprehensive understanding of the industrial maintenance organisation.

• Maintenance systems 
• Maintenance budgeting 
• Maintenance management control
• Organisational effectiveness and efficiency 
• Maintenance planning 
• Maintenance documentation systems 
• Computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS) 
• Spare parts management 
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) 

Graduate Diploma of Maintenance Management (CV66)

The Graduate Diploma of Maintenance Management program requires completion of four additional course units that take another one to two years to complete. This program extends the knowledge gained in the Graduate Certificate in Maintenance Management to develop the skills required to provide leadership and continuous improvement in the industrial maintenance organisation.

The program requires completion of the CQUniversity Graduate Certificate in Maintenance Management plus four of the following: 

ENMM20014 Maintenance Leadership

This course focuses on leadership theory and practice appropriate to current and future maintenance practice. This course explores the techniques for advancing leadership as a critical business imperative, including:

• Management and leadership 
• Leadership theories 
• Skills for effective leadership 
• Measuring and managing performance 
• Change management
• Coaching and training
• Developing teams and groups
• Valuable lessons on effective leadership

ENMM20015 Auditing Maintenance System

This course develops an understanding of audit methodology focused towards the improvement of industrial asset management and maintenance systems, including:

• Goals of asset management auditing 
• An auditing methodology 
• Auditing human factors 
• Auditing maintenance departments 
• Types of audits 
• Benchmarks and performance indicators
• Case studies

Prerequisites: Graduate Certificate in Maintenance Management

Plus any two of the following:

 

ENMM20017 Advanced Condition Monitoring

This course focuses on condition monitoring as a preventive maintenance strategy. The course covers a range of condition-based maintenance techniques, including: 

• Condition based maintenance 
• Selection of condition monitoring techniques 
• Parameter symptom limits 
• Oil analysis 
• Thermal monitoring 
• Corrosion identification and monitoring 
• Vibration monitoring 
• Vibration analysis

ENMM20018 Turnaround Management

 

This course covers the theoretical knowledge and technical skills required to perform turnaround events, using a systems approach to maintenance, including:

• Turnarounds from a business and engineering perspective 
• Phases of a turnaround 
• Logistics of a turnaround 
• Initiation of a turnaround 
• Preparation for a turnaround 
• Execution of a turnaround 
• Termination of a turnaround

ENMM20020 Maintenance Materials Management

 

This course focuses on the materials supply function of asset maintenance management, including:

• Objectives of materials management 
• Categorising materials 
• Managing inventories 
• Warehouse management 
• Purchasing 
• Technological solutions to materials management 
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) 

Masters of Maintenance Management (CU91)

For those that wish to continue their studies and develop the skills required to conduct applied industry-based research of real-world problems, the Masters program can be completed in one year, following completion of the Graduate Diploma program. The Master of Maintenance Management focuses the previous learning and experience towards creation of opportunities to improve maintenance management practices. The Masters program requires the student to investigate and resolve a significant real-world issue affecting the maintenance organisation.

The program requires completion of the CQUniversity Graduate Diploma of Maintenance Management plus:

ENMM29025 Research Project A

 

This course requires the student to plan the investigation that they are going to undertake. This will require the student to submit a project proposal outlining the investigation they are going to undertake, the research questions, the methodology they will use and desired outcomes.

 

ENMM29026 Research Project B

This course requires the student to conduct the investigation of a real-world problem in an industrial organisation, applying the methodology previously devised, gather and analyse the data, develop recommendations and a solution to the original problem identified in ENMM29025 Research Project A.

The final submission for this course will be the Research Report that is the culmination of the industry based research project. This report, written in a thesis format, will provide a complete description of all stages of the project from conception through to completion. This report will be submitted for marking and grading by the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Health.