BHARATHIYAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

COURSE PLAN – 2016

Subject: MEE85 Maintenance and Safety Engineering Year : IV Year –“B” Sec

Class : B.Tech-IV-Mechanical Even Semester: VIII

OBJECTIVES
 Focused study on the issues of maintenance, reliability and safety of
technical systems
 Fault finding and diagnostics in engineering industry
 Knowledge of lubricants and lubrication systems
 Understand maintenance requirements of plant and equipment with
increased sophistication and complexity.
 Hazard identification and risk assessment in operation and maintenance
of industrial plant
 Familiarization with prevailing regulations for safe environment and
health

WEEK NO. OF
UNIT LECTURE TOPICS
NO. HOURS
Objectives of maintenance 1
Types of maintenance – Breakdown, preventive and predictive
1
maintenance 1
Repair cycle - Repair Complexity 1
Lubrication system –Lubricants-Inspection 1
I 1
Maintenance of Mechanical transmission systems
Align machinery-Static and dynamic balancing 1
Process plants 1
Air conditioning – Water purification 2 1
Environmental control 1
Predictive Maintenance 1
vibration analysis data and noise as maintenance tool 1
wear debris analysis 1
Condition monitoring concepts applied to industries – diagnose-
3 1
faults – overhaul
II Testing and measurement using approved procedures - 1
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) 1
Economics of Maintenance 1
Computer aided maintenance 1
modern practice – modern manufacturing aspects 4 1
Reliability: Definition, concept of reliability based design, 1
Failure rate, MTTF, MTBF, Failure pattern, 1
System reliability: Series, Parallel and Mixed configurations 1
Availability and Maintainability concepts- Applications 1
III Electro, proportional and servohydraulic components 5 1
Shutdown machinery – isolation – dismantle – inspect 1
NDT 1
Assembly – fans – pumps – valves 1
6
Bearings – static – dynamic seals. 1
 Safety and productivity 1
Causes of accidents in industries 6 1
Accident reporting and investigation 1
Measuring safety performance 1
IV Safety organizations and functions 1
Factories act and rules 7 1
Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemical rules 1
Explosive act - Gas cylinder rules 1
Electricity act. 1
Safety Codes and Standards 1
Air Quality, indoor, outdoor and safe drinking water 8 1
General Safety considerations in Material Handling equipments 1
Machine Shop machineries 1
V Pressure vessels and pressurized pipelines 1
IBR-Welding equipments 1
Operation and inspection of extinguishers – prevention and
spread of fire
9 1
Emergency exit facilities 1
NFPA Standards – ISO 14000. 1

Text Books

S.No Title of the book Author Publisher

Maintenance and Spare parts Prentice hall of India
1 P.Gopalakrishnan
Management pvt. Ltd
Affiliated East West
2 Reliability Engineering L.S.Srinath
press, 2003
Prentice Hall of India
3 Industrial Safety Rolland P.Blake Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi,
1973

Faculty HOD-MECH