MEB4343 Asset Performance Assessment & Maintenance May 2023

Project Semester

Project Due date:

21/07/2022

Instruction:

A total of 20 fire doors are installed in the chemical plant of Chemical Industries Sdn Bhd
which manufactures ‘speciality’ chemical that is flammable. The fire doors are single leaf
with dimensions of 2137 x 1050 mm and 80 kg. Three hinges are installed for each door
with positions as shown in Figure 1. Each hinge has a label of [3-7-4-0-0-0-0-11]. Each
closer has a label of [4-8-3-0-1-3]. Based on 3 years record of the reliability and asset
management team, the fire door has been classified as a ‘bad actor’ and hence the need to
perform root cause analysis (RCA) has been put forward to the plant manager.

Figure 1. Positions of hinges for fire door.

Among the identified damaged components or observations at the fire doors were:
• Broken door dampener.
• Broken mortise lock.
• Slamming of fire door due to non-functioning door closer which has even led to
damage of door frame and panel.
• Rubbing of fire door to the floor.

You are required to perform the RCA in a group of 4-5 students and submit your report. You
are also required to do a physical group presentation.

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MEB4343 Asset Performance Assessment & Maintenance May 2023
Project Semester

Guideline for the report (100% consist of 10 marks):

Report [70] (5-10 pages):
a) Cover page consists of all members in the group (with student matric number)
b) Introduction (background of the problem)
c) Data collection and presentation of data.
d) Results (data analysis) and discussion
e) Conclusion & recommendation
f) References

Presentation [20%] (5-10 min)

Slides [10%] (5-10 slides)

Format for Preparing Report:

a) Use font size 12 Arial with 1.5 spacing.
b) The margins are as follows – top and bottom margin 1.00”, left margin 1.25” and
right margin 1.00”.
c) Use ring binding for the report with transparency cover on both the front as well as
the back.
d) The report must be written in English.
e) The report must have a front page; members name, contact number and profile
photo for each member; table of content; body text; conclusions; references and
appendices.
f) ZERO mark will be given if you got caught cheating and plagiarizing materials from
friends.
g) If you want to include materials from internet, journal article or textbooks, please
include citations clearly.
h) All figures and tables must be numbered accordingly, have titles or description and
referred to in the text.
i) All marked reports will not be returned and please make extra copy for yourself.
j) All the supplementary data and analysis using software or spreadsheets need to
be submitted in the form of softcopy (ULearn).

Required items for submission in ULearn:

i. Report
ii. Presentation slides

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 Rubric for Project MEB4343
Content Scale Score
Introduction (background of the problem) (10%)
The introduction is very well explained with clearly defines the background
11 - 15
details of the company
The introduction is adequately explained about the background details of the
6 - 10
company
The introduction is not well presented or not presented at all or is plagiarized. 0-5
Data collection and presentation of data (5%)
Sufficient and accurate details on the topic presented. Very well presented with
11 - 15
appropriate format and excellent visual appearance
Sufficient but inaccurate details on the topic presented. Adequately presented
6 - 10
with appropriate format and visual appearance
Insufficient details on the topic presented. Poorly presented, in term of format
0-5
and visual appearance or no results
Results (data analysis) and discussion (30%)
Sufficient and accurate data analysis presented. Results are very well presented
11 - 15
with appropriate format and excellent visual appearance (graph etc)
Sufficient but inaccurate data analysis presented. Results are adequately
6 - 10
presented with appropriate format and visual appearance
Insufficient data analysis presented. Results are poorly presented, in term of
0-5
format and visual appearance or no results
Conclusion & recommendation (20%)
Conclusion & recommendation are very well presented and clearly related to
11 - 15
the objectives. Clear and realistic recommendations for future works.
Conclusion & recommendation are sufficiently presented and somewhat
6 - 10
related to the objectives. Acceptable recommendations for future works
Poor conclusion & recommendation and not related to the objectives. Poor or
no recommendations for future works. Or conclusion and recommendations 0-5
are not presented
References (5%)
Highly related references, proper format 11 - 15

Some related reference 6 - 10

Irrelevant reference 0-5
Presentation (20%)
Well distributed presentation and have a good combination and transition of
11 - 15
presentation
Several team members perform presentation 6 - 10
Only one team member do presentation 0-5
Slides (10%)
Presentation using several relevance aid or tools to enhance understanding of 11 - 15
viewers
Presentation using an aid or tool to enhance understanding of viewers 6 - 10
Presentation not using any aid or tools to enhance understanding of viewers 0-5