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“Without my qualifications from your
course I would not have achieved this career move…Just being
enrolled was enough to help me get my latest job….. Courses of study
as offered by Monash afford people in industry an expanded horizon
with which to view and manage their assets….I want to thank you for
your time and effort in helping solve my crisis. I know that you have
many students, but you seemed to understand what this problem meant to
me, as an individual. It is thought and consideration like that, that
makes distance learning work. Even through the time zones, you have
made an effort to phone me and discuss my problem… I really enjoyed
the courses. I thought that the instructional materials were excellent
and that the program was run extremely well. I will definitely
recommend the program to others”…..so
say the students.
Many industrial assets are being
required to not only remain in service for beyond their intended
design lifetime, but also to improve in performance. The focus of
asset management has therefore moved beyond merely keeping plant
functioning into the area of reliability improvement. A clear impact
on the bottom line of a business must be shown.
The term “maintenance”
unfortunately implies a reactive role, and until recently it was seen
as such. Today it is increasingly seen as an investment in production
capacity rather than just a cost to be borne somewhat grudgingly!
Maintenance Engineering is therefore clearly a professional
engineering role offering great career challenge and excitement.
Reliability Engineering is well
developed in the military and in some technical areas such as electric
power transmission. For the above reasons, these techniques are now
relevant to industry in general.
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