OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, ILE-IFE

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

E-mail: femikoya@oauife.edu.ng Telephone: +2348030680434 Date: 06 June. 2023.
afemikoya@yahoo.com

COURSE WORK PLAN

COURSE CODE AND TITLE: MEE 506 – Mechanical Maintenance
COURSE UNIT: 2 Units (2-0-0)
COURSE DURATION: Two hours of lectures weekly
Lecture Starts, 06 June, 2023
Lecture Ends, 28 April, 2023
COURSE PRE-REQUISITE: MEE 308 – Mechanical Measurements and Instrumentation
COURSE COMPLEMENT: MEE 596 – Mechanical Maintenance Laboratory
(1 Unit, 3-h practical per week)
COURSE LECTURERS AND CONTACTS:
Prof. Olufemi Adebola Koya
femikoya@oauife.du.ng (+234 803 068 0434)
Dr A. T. Oyeniran
oyeniranat@yahoo.com (+234 803-379-9038)
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
(a) Attendance:
Record of student attendance shall be taken in every class. Students are expected to attend
lectures in person and participate actively in classes. Apologies for absence must be reasonable
and presented well ahead of the class. At least 75% attendance is required to qualify to sit the
final examination in the course.
(b) Academic Integrity:
Students are expected to exude high level of originality and truthfulness in the conduct of
assigned duties, and good team spirit in group works. Although the course shall be administered
in student-centred and industry-cooperative learning modes concurrently, individual’s
comprehension shall be assessed. It is the responsibility of each student to access resources made
available by the lecturer for studying ahead of the class, and no such materials, in any form
(hardcopy or electronic), should be brought into examination room. Other guidelines concerning
conduct of students during examinations are available in the Students’ Handbook.
(c) Assignments and Group Works:
Timelines for submission of assignments and term papers must be strictly adhered to. Ranking of
members’ participation in group works shall be factored into individuals’ scores, while non-
participating members, not previously excused, shall be deemed to have no scores.
Unfortunately, failure in group work may amount to outright failure in the course. Students are
encouraged to engage in associative learning, but must desist from copying each other, as all
found involved would be penalised.
(d) Conduct in Lecture Room:
Each class may be administered differently: lecture-based, lab-based, problem-based, activity-
based, or industry-run, without prior notice, hence the need for punctuality and it may be
preceded by a flip. The students are expected to be attentive and avoid distractions, operating cell
phones or surfing the net unnecessarily during classes. Impromptu class tests may also be
administered. Foods and drinks are prohibited in the laboratories. Rules and regulations of host
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 industry must be strictly adhered to when visiting the industry in connection with any part of the
course.

(e) Assessment
Student’s assessment shall reflect class participation, primarily the attendance beyond the 75%
benchmark, on-the-go assignments and tests, technical report on problem-based tasks, and end-
of-course examination. Allocation of scores (to be multiplied by weighting factors, at the
discretion of the lecturer) shall be as follows:

Class Attendance 200 Points

Home Works 200 Points
Mid-Course Tests 100 Points
Term Paper 300 Points
Final Examination 200 Points
Total 1000 Points

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course encompasses: machine inspection, rate of wear and replacement time prediction; basic
technologies and equipment for repairs of internal combustion engines, pumps and small output
power generating plants, machine-tools, vehicles, earth-moving equipment and lifting devices;
special techniques in machine repairs; planning and organisation of service and maintenance
workshops; planning of the spares stock and related problems.

RECOMMENDED TEXTS
(i) Dhillion, B. S. Engineering Maintenance: a modern approach, CRC Press LLC, Florida, USA
(ii) Mobley, R. K. An Introduction to Predictive Maintenance, Elsevier Science, USA.
(iii) Lipson, C. and Sheth, N.J. Statistical Design and Analysis of Engineering Experiments,
McGraw-Hill, New York.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Students at the end of the course should be able to:

 demonstrate the basic knowledge of mechanical maintenance

 determine the preventive maintenance schedule of equipment/facility.
 troubleshoot equipment/facility for corrective maintenance.
 plan inventory of spare part for an organization.
 take decision about whether to continue to keep an equipment or to dispose it.
 manage a maintenance crew.

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LECTURE OUTLINE
Week Module and Topics
MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION
 Course Overview
 Definition of Maintenance
1-2
 Maintenance Terminologies
 Importance of Maintenance
 Types of Maintenance
MODULE 2: TEST INSTRUMENTS, TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES IN PREDICTIVE
MAINTENANCE
 Visual Inspection: “walk-downs”
 Tribology: oil, wear particle analyses
3  Thermography
 Electrical Testing
 Vibration Monitoring: broad and narrow band trending
 Ultrasonic Monitoring
 Process Parameter Monitoring
MODULE 3: MACHINE FAILURE ANALYSIS
 Common Causes of Equipment Failure
 Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
 Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) Statistics
4-5  Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)
 Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
 Equipment and System Reliability
 Basis for Condition Monitoring
 Software Maintenance
6 Mid-Course Assessment
MODULE 4: MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL
 Maintenance Levels
7
 Personnel Motivation
 World-Class Maintenance
MODULE 5: MAINTENANCE COST
 Economics of Preventive Maintenance
 Elements of Maintenance Costs
8-9
 Cost Estimation Models
 Maintenance versus Disposal
 Spare Parts Management
MODULE 6: MAINTENANCE INFRASTRUCTURE
 Planning and Organisation of Maintenance Workshops
10-11
 Maintenance Records
 Current Trends in Maintenance Engineering
12 Revision
End-of-Course Examinations