Single subject courses - Total Quality and Maintenance (Terotechnology)

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Contact Person
Elena Vinci-Hytter
E-mail: elena.vinci-hytter@vxu.se
Telephone: +46 470 70 81 53
School of Technology and Design

• SEA914 - Technical Project Management and Report Writing
• SEA915 - Business-Driven Quality Maintenance
• SEA918 - Information Systems in Technological Environments
• SEA919 - Information Systems
• SEA923 - Information models in industrial systems
• SEA924 - Computerised information handling for industrial systems
• SEB911 - Industrial measurement and failure analysis
• SEC915 - Quality Technology
• SEC916 - Reliability Engineering and Maintenance Optimization
• SEC917 - Condition Monitoring Technology
• SEC918 - Maintenance Technology
• SEC919 - Industrial Integrated Case Study
• SEC922 - Technical Life Cycle Cost/Profit
• SEC923 - Six Sigma
• SEC924 - Procurement, Distribution and Operations Research
• SEC926 - Facilities Planning and Production Management
• SEC930 - Degree Project
• SED930 - Degree Project
• SED932 - Degree Project

October, 2006–January, 2007
5 credit points (7.5 ECTS)

The purpose of the course is to give the students knowledge of the plan­ning, accomplishment and debriefing of technical projects.

Contents
The course covers the following ele­ments:

• project-planning, project accomplish­ment and economy
• scientific report-writing, e.g. setting up a report, the logical flow of text, figures and tables, etc.
• choosing sources of information
• technical report writing
• the technique of oral presentation
• national and international rules for technical report-writing

Teaching methods
The teaching consists of lectures, seminars, exercises, project work and report-writing. Participation in exercises and a company-located case study are obligatory.

Prerequisites
Completed upper secondary education and a good command of English.

Recomended reading
Kerzner, Harold, Project Management, a Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling and Ccontrolling, 8th ed. Wiley, 2002. Day, R. A., How to Write & Publish a Scien­tific Paper, 5th ed, Cambridge University Press, 1988.

September, 2006–October, 2006
5 credit points (7.5 ECTS)

The main objectives of this course are to provide students with an intro­ductory knowledge of and practical experience in terminology, methods and applications in quality, reliabil­ity, maintenance, durability, logistics and life cycle costs and profits. Another objective of the course is to demonstrate how these working areas are integrated and the synergy effects of such integration on a com­pany’s profit.

Contents
The course consists of a description of the terminology, methods and applica­tions of Total Quality Management (TQM), reliability analysis, mainte­nance, durability, logistics, quality control, life-cycle cost/profit and the integration of these subjects.

There is also a real on-site case study, which integrates these disciplines.

Teaching methods
The course consists of lectures, exer­cises, laboratory exercises and report-writing.

Prerequisites
Completed upper secondary education and a good command of English.

Recommended reading
B. Bergman, B Klefsjö, Quality from Customer Needs to Customer Satisfaction, Studentlitteratur Lund 1995 (also avail­able in Swedish). Martin Christopher: Logistics and Supply Chain Management Strategies for Reducing Cost and Improving Service, Prentice Hall, 1998.

April–May, 2007
5 credit points (7.5 ECTS)

The purpose is to give students:

• a fundamental knowledge of the concepts of data, information, information technology (IT) and information systems
• an understanding of the relations between information systems and industrial activities, stressing manu­facturing processes

Contents
The course covers the following ele­ments:

• the concept of information and sur­rounding concepts
• the general construction of an IT-system
• different information systems: con­struction and area of use
• information systems and industrial activities:
• IT as a support to industrial processes
• IT as a strategic tool
• IT and the users
• the IT organisation
• IT security

Teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, laboratory work and case studies.

Prerequisites
Completed upper secondary education and a good command of English.

Recommended reading
Reynolds, George W., Information Systems for Managers, Minneapolis/St. Paul West cop. 1995.

May–June, 2007
5 credit points (7.5 ECTS)

The purpose of the course is to give students:

• a fundamental knowledge of infor­mation system development in a technological environment
• the foundations of computer programs that are used in a techno­logical environment, especially in manufacturing processes

Contents
The course covers the following ele­ments:

• the information system development cycle
• activities analysis: purpose and meth­ods
• information systems design: methods, tools and user involvement stressing technological environments
• fundamental computer science: data structures, the history of programming languages and the fundamentals of programming languages
• design exercises fitting a technological environment

Teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, laboratory work and case studies.

Prerequisites
Completed upper secondary education and a good command of English.

Recommended reading
Beginners’ book in OOS/UML.

April–June, 2007
5 credit points (7.5 ECTS)

The purpose of the course is to give students:

• knowledge about what kind of data should be stored and an understanding of what information is important and how it is gathered with respect to industrial systems.
• knowledge about data modelling.
• knowledge about what opportuni­ties industrial databases give for co-operation between different functions like production, mainte­nance, quality etc.
• an understanding of the importance of a well-designed database within producing companies

Contents
The course covers the following ele­ments:

• ERP/corporate systems; structure and basic data
• an overview of other industrial data­bases within maintenance, production, quality and condition monitoring
• data modelling
• the choice of relevant data when modelling
• human/computer; the reliability of input data

Teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, laboratory work and case studies.

Prerequisites
Completed upper secondary education and a good command of English.

Recommended reading
Hoffer J. Prescott M. McFadden F. R., Modern Database Management, 6 ed. Prentice Hall 2002. Reynolds, George W., Information Systems for Managers, Min­neapolis/St. Paul West cop. 1995.

September–October, 2006
5 credit points (7.5 ECTS)

The purpose of the course is to give students:

• knowledge about how data and information is handled in databases and other computerised systems
• basic knowledge about relational algebra and SQL
• knowledge about how data is pro­tected in storage, processing and transaction stressing the specific problems concerning manufactur­ing companies
• deeper knowledge about database architectures and their use in manu­facturing companies

Contents
The course covers the following ele­ments:

• physical database design
• relational algebra
• SQL
• data security generally and within manufacturing companies
• database architecture and its use within manufacturing companies

Teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, laboratory work and case studies.

Prerequisites
SEA923 or the equivalent.

Recommended reading
Hoffer J. Prescott M. McFadden F. R., Modern Database Management, 6 ed. Prentice Hall 2002. Beginners book in Access, recommended titles: Hallberg, Jan, Microsoft Access 2000. Everö, Olle, Access 2000.

January–March 2007
5 credit points (7,5 ECTS)

The purpose is to give the students:

• basic technical knowledge of machine elements (function, characteristics, production etc.), failure causes and measurement techniques.
• knowledge about tribology and deterioration processes, e g wear, fretting and corrosion

Contents
The course covers the following ele­ments:

• machine elements
• processing techniques
• tribology and lubrication
• failures and failure cause analysis
• measurement and control technology

Teaching methods
The teaching consists of lectures, class-teaching, seminar practice, laboratory work, case studies (projects) and/or essay-writing on a practical subject. Participation in seminars and practical work is obligatory.

Prerequisites
Completed upper secondary school education and a good command of English.

Course literature
Karlebo, Karlebo, Handbok, Liber Utbildning (senaste utgåvan). Hågeryd, Björklund, Lenner, Modern produktionstek-nik, del I, Liber Utbildning. Callister, Materials Science and Engineering, John Wiley & Sons.

January–March, 2007
5 credit points (7.5 ECTS)

The purpose of the course is to give students:

• a knowledge of TQM and its ap­plication in complex and smaller systems
• a basic knowledge of theory and methods used in quality control and its economic importance to technical systems

Contents

• TQM
• quality technology
• qualitative and quantitative analysis methods
• economic yield
• practical examples

Teaching methods
The teaching consists of lectures, class-teaching, essay-writing, seminar practice, laboratory work, case and practical work. Participating in practical work and seminars is obligatory.

Prerequisites
Admission to the course requires 5 credit points in Business Economics, 15 credit points in Mathematics and 10 credit points in Mathematical Statistics or the equivalent.

Recommended reading
Bergman and Klefsjö, Quality from Customer Needs to Customer Satisfaction, Studentlitteratur, Lund 1995.

April–June, 2007
5 credit points (7.5 ECTS)

The purpose of the course is to give students a basic knowledge of theory and methods in technical reliability and maintenance optimisation and its economic influence on complex and smaller systems.

Contents

• product safety
• technical reliability analysis
• the reliability theory of complex and small systems
• maintenance optimisation
• practical examples

Teaching methods
The teaching consists of lectures, class-teaching, essay-writing, seminar practice, laboratory work, case and practical work. Participation in practical work and seminars is obligatory.

Prerequisites
Admission to the course requires 5 credit points in Business Economics, 15 credit points in Mathematics, 10 credit points in Mathematical Statistics and 5 credit points in Quality and Maintenance (equivalent to SEA915) and a knowledge of/experience in Industrial Measurement and Failure Analysis (equivalent to SEB911) or the equivalent.

Recommended reading
O’Conner Patrck, Practical Reliability En­gineering, John Wiley, 4th edition, 2002. Bergman & Klevsjö, Quality from Customer Needs to Customer Satisfaction, Studentlit­teratur, Lund 1995. Sherwin & Bossche, The Reliability, Availability Productivities of Systems, Chapman & Hall 1993.

September–October, 2006
5 credit points (7.5 ECTS)

The purpose of the course is to give the students:

• a basic knowledge of theory and methods used in condition monitoring in complex and small systems
• a knowledge of the technical and economic effects of condition-monitoring on both machines and production processes
• knowledge of the role of condi­tion-monitoring in maintenance and production-planning and also in the profitability of the company
• a knowledge of the role condition-monitoring has in the improvement of quality control

Contents
The course covers the following ele­ments:

• methods used in condition-monitoring
• technical measuring
• qualitative and quantitative methods for analysis
• economic results
• the integration of condition monitor­ing, production and quality control and the benefit of this as a tool for securing quality
• case studies
• a project around real industrial prob­lems

Teaching methods
The teaching consists of lectures, seminars, laboratory work, case studies (projects) and educational visits. Partici­pation in seminars, laboratory work and practical work is obligatory.

Prerequisites
Admission to the course requires 5 credit points in business economics and quality, 10 credit points in mathematics, 5 credit points in statistics, a knowledge of/experience in industrial measure­ment and failure analysis (equivalent to SEB911) (or a knowledge of/experience in maintenance technology) or the equivalent.

Recommended reading
Basim Al-Najjar, Condition Monitoring and Condition Based Maintenance.

September –October, 2006
5 credit points (7.5 ECTS)

The purpose of the course is to give the student:

• some knowledge of maintenance strategies, methods and philoso­phies
• a knowledge of the economic influence of maintenance work on different systems for production
• a basic knowledge of theories and methods used in technical mainte­nance management in complex and smaller systems

Contents
The course covers the following ele­ments:

• reliability and maintenance manage­ment
• product safety
• maintenance approaches, i.e. cor­rective, preventive, condition-based, reliability-centred maintenance, total productive maintenance, total quality maintenance
• maintenance organisation
• the economic implication of mainte­nance
• case studies (projects) on real indus­trial problems
• the decision process
• maintenance audit and IT

Teaching methods
The teaching consists of lectures, seminars, exercises and essay-writing. Participation in seminars and practical work is obligatory.

Prerequisites
Admission to the course requires, besides completed upper secondary edu­cation and a good command of English, a knowledge of industrial measurement and failure analysis, a knowledge of quality and business economics (equiva­lent to JEA900) or the equivalent.

November, 2006–January, 2007
5 credit points (7.5 ECTS)

The purpose of the course is:

• to make the student familiar with the meaning of integration among different fields such as quality, production, maintenance, logistics and economy
• to give some understanding of rel­evant concepts, tools and methods used for integration among these fields
• to give an understanding of how these concepts, tools and methods may be used to show the role of maintenance in company economy
• to give the student theoretical and practical knowledge, experience and ability to design and carry out development work in one of the fields mentioned above in a holistic way

Contents

• integration in producing companies
• co-operation among different fields in producing companies
• methods used to analyse the compa­ny’s operation
• a systematic way to calculate the economic influence of maintenance on quality, production, the value of spare parts, insurance, etc
• an exposition of the benefit a company can gain from such a systematic way of working and how it can be accom­plished

Teaching methods
The teaching consists of lectures, submitted assignments, case studies (projects) on a producing company and a presentation of the project.

Prerequisites
Admission to the course requires, besides completed upper secondary education and a good command of English, a knowledge of industrial measurement and failure analysis, a knowledge of qual­ity and business economics, a knowledge of/experience in maintenance technique and logistics (equivalent to SEC918 and SEC914), or the equivalent.

Recommended reading
Basim Al-Najjar et al., Economic Importance of Maintenance Planning when Using Vibra­tion-based Maintenance Policy.

October, 2006–January, 2007
5 credit points (7.5 ECTS)

The purpose of the course is:

• to make the students familiar with the meaning of LCC/LCP in techni­cal plants
• to give the students some under­standing of relevant concepts, methods and tools used in LCC/LCP in connection with the role of maintenance in the economy of the company
• to give some understanding of how LCC/LCP factors may be used to monitor the operation with regard to cost effectiveness during development, measuring, follow-up and analyses in order to reach cost effectiveness

Contents

• a detailed description of the general LCC/LCP model and its applications in technical plants
• methods used in analyses
• a systematic way of calculating the economic effects of maintenance on quality, production, the value of spare parts, insurance, etc
• an exposition of the benefit a company can gain from such a systematic way of working and how it can be accom­plished

Teaching methods
The teaching consists of lectures, group work, laboratory work, submitted as­signments and case studies (projects).

Prerequisites
Admission to the course requires, besides completed upper secondary education and a good command of English, a knowledge of industrial measurement and failure analysis, a knowledge of quality and business economics.

Recommended reading
Dhillon, B.S., Life Cycle Costing, Gordon and Bread Science Publisher, 1989. Basim Al-Najjar et al., Economic Importance of Maintenance Planning when Using Vibra­tion-based Maintenance Policy.

September–October, 2006
5 credit points (7.5 ECTS)

The purpose of the course is to give the students:

• the background to Six Sigma
• a knowledge of the main features of Six Sigma
• a knowledge of how Six Sigma is related to other techniques/policies/strategies and how it is possible to use them together: advantages and disadvantages
• a knowledge about how Six Sigma works in practice

Contents

• methods in feature analysis, for example QFD (Quality Function Deployment)
• the structure of Six Sigma
• the seven quality tools
• flowcharts
• systems for measuring and gathering data
• experiment design, factorial experi­ments
• a real case

Teaching methods
The teaching consists of lectures, group work, laboratory work, submitted as­signments and case studies (projects).

Prerequisites
Admission to the course requires 5 credit points in Business Economics, 10 credit points in Mathematics, 5 credit points in Statistics and 5 credit points in Quality Management or the equivalent.

Recommended reading
Magnusson Kjell, Kroslid Dag, Bergman Bo, Six Sigma, The Pragmatic Approach.

September–October, 2006
5 credit points (7.5 ECTS)

The purpose of the course is:

• to give the students the basic knowledge of operations research (linear programming) that enables the students to deal with optimisation problems in the area of supply chain management

Contents
The course covers the following ele­ments:

• Part one: theory of Procurement and Distribution such as forecasting, ag­gregate planning, inventory control and logistic network design (Networking).
• Part two: Supply chain manage­ment and operations research such as introduction to operations research, problem formulation, graphical solu­tions, the simplex method, applying linear programming software in supply chain management and the analysis of software outputs

Teaching methods
The teaching consists of lectures, group work, laboratory work, submitted as­signments and case studies (projects).

Prerequisites
Admission to the course requires besides basic qualification knowledge in logis­tics (equivalent to SEA915), knowledge of business economics (equivalent to JEA900) or the equivalent, at least 10 points in mathematics or the equivalent.

Recommended reading
Cole, I. J., Bardi, E. J., Langley Jr, C. J. The Management of Business Logistics, 6th ed, Publisher: West Publishing Company.

January–March, 2007
5 credit points (7.5 ECTS)

The purpose of the course is to give the students some knowledge of the logistics system function and its role in satisfying stated customer needs at minimum costs. It particularly focuses on:

• how to plan a new facility or up­date existing facilities to ensure that the facility’s tangible fixed assets best support the achievement of the overall business objective
• how to plan and control the manufacturing process (including materials, machines, people and suppliers)

Contents
The course covers the following ele­ments:
Part one:

• product design, process design and schedule design
• flow patterns and activity relations in different production types
• space requirements: work station and departmental requirements (equip­ment, services, personnel, etc.)
• material handling systems
• facility layout design

Part two:

• Manufacturing Planning and Control (MPC): definition and framework
• Material Requirement Planning (MRP and MRPII)
• Just in Time (JIT)
• capacity planning
• production activity control and master production scheduling

Teaching methods
The teaching consists of lectures, class-teaching, seminar practice, laboratory work, case studies (projects) and/or essay-writing on a practical subject. Participation in seminars and practical work is obligatory.

Prerequisites
Admission to the course requires 5 credit points in Business Economics and Quality and 15 credit points in Math­ematics or the equivalent.

Recommended reading
Tompkins, White, Bozer, Frazelle, Tanchano, Trevino, Facilities Planning, 2nd edition (1996). Examined mostly through a case study. Vollmann, Why­bark, Berry, Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems, 4th edition (1997). Basic material for the exam.

January–June, 2007
10 credit points (15 ECTS)

The purpose of this course is to give the students the necessary skills to write a scientific report according to the internal demands on a technical report as stated by the School of Technology and Design in “Rapport­instruktioner för TD”.

During the course the student should show his or her ability to apply the knowledge acquired during the studies.

The task should be reported as an academic paper or a scientifically based work report. All reports must be discussed in a seminar.

The report should be written in English unless special reasons can be presented.

Contents
The student is to conduct and report a major task of a research nature under the supervision of the tutor and the examiner.

The task should be found in an industrial environment, and cover 2–3 subjects within the Terotechnology area, (for example product quality, maintenance and life cycle cost) and their integration.

Teaching methods
Teaching consists of lectures on scien­tific methodology. In addition to this the student will receive supervision for performing his/her project.

Prerequisites
The requirement for admission to the course is that the student has taken courses at the C level in Terotechnol­ogy, (level 41–60).

January–June, 2007
20 credit points (30 ECTS)

The purpose of this course is to give the students the necessary skills to write a scientific report according to the internal demands on a technical report as stated by School of Tech­nology and Design in “Rapportin­struktioner för TD”.

Contents
The student is to conduct and report a major task of a research nature under the supervision of the tutor and the examiner.

The task should be found in an industrial environment, and cover 2–3 subjects within the Terotechnology area, (for example product quality, maintenance and life cycle cost) and their integration.

The focus of the report should be according to the profile chosen by the student.

The task should be reported as an academic paper or a scientifically based work report. All reports must be dis­cussed in a seminar.

The report should be written in English unless special reasons can be presented.

Teaching methods
Teaching consists of lectures on scien­tific methodology. In addition to this the student will receive supervision for performing his/her project.

Prerequisites
The requirement for admission to the course is that the student has taken courses at the C level in Terotechnol­ogy, (level 41–60).

Recommended reading
Idar Magne Holmer, Bernt Krohn Solvang, Forskningsmetodik – om kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder, Studentlittera-tur 1991. Jarl Backman, Rapporter och uppsatser, Studentlitteratur 1998. Erling S Andersson, Eva Schwencke, Projektarbete – en vägledning för studenter, Studentlitte-ratur 1998. B Klefsjö, H Eliasson, De sju ledningsverktygen – för effektivare planering av förbättringsarbete, 1999. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (4th ed). Washington DC: American Psychological Association (1994). Day, R. A., How to Write & Publish a Scientific Paper (5th ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Jarick, A., Josephsson, H., Kennerfalk, L., Lundbäck, A., Sandström, M., Från tanke till text, Studentlitteratur. Graziano, A. M., Raulin, M.L., Research Methods: a Process of Inquiry, 4th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, cop. 2000. Thurén, T, Veten­skapsteori för nybörjare, Liber, 1996.

January–June, 2007
10 credit points (15 ECTS)

The purpose of this course is to give students with a Bachelor’s degree in Terotechnology an opportunity to take a Swedish Master’s degree.

Contents
The student is to conduct and report a major task of a research nature under the supervision of the tutor and the examiner.

The task should be found in an industrial environment, and cover 2–3 subjects within the Terotechnology area, (for example product quality, maintenance and life cycle cost) and their integration.

The task should be reported as an academic paper or a scientifically based work report. All reports must be dis­cussed in a seminar.

The report should be written in English unless special reasons can be presented.

Teaching methods
Teaching consists of lectures on scien­tific methodology. In addition to this the student will receive supervision for performing his/her project.

Prerequisites
The requirement for admission to the course is that the student has taken courses at the C level in Terotechnol­ogy, (level 41–60).and also finished a 10 point C-level degree project in the same subject.