This course “Condition Monitoring and Maintenance Management” comprises of three modules and ten chapters will be covered in eight weeks.
The Module 1: Maintenance Concepts, deals with functions and objectives of maintenance, maintenance strategies, maintenance scheduling and organization and spare parts management and also deals with various methods and policies of maintenance engineering.
Module 2: Condition Based Maintenance, describes the methods of fault diagnosis, condition checking and inspection and trend monitoring methods. This module also explains various methods of machine fault identification and its diagnosis.
Module 3: Reliability Centered Maintenance, discusses about maintenance division models, reliability oriented maintenance systems, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Benchmarking. Finally it concludes with procedures of JIT maintenance, zero defect maintenance and zero breakdown maintenance systems.
| Course Status : | Upcoming |
| Course Type : | Not Applicable |
| Language for course content : | English |
| Duration : | 8 weeks |
| Category : |
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| Credit Points : | 2 |
| Level : | Undergraduate |
| Start Date : | 15 Jul 2025 |
| End Date : | 15 Nov 2025 |
| Enrollment Ends : | 15 Sep 2025 |
| Exam Date : | 11 Dec 2025 IST |
| NCrF Level : | 4.5 |
| Exam Shift : | Shift- II |
Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.
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Week |
Units |
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Week 1 |
Unit 1: Functions and Objectives of Maintenance |
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Week 2 |
Unit 2: Maintenance Strategies |
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Week 3 |
Unit 3: Maintenance Schedules |
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Week 4 |
Unit 4: Spare Parts Management |
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Week 5 |
Unit 5: Diagnostic Maintenance |
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Week 6 |
Unit 6: Condition Monitoring Unit 7: Trend Analysis |
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Week 7 |
Unit 8: Maintenance Models Unit 9: Reliability Oriented Maintenance
Models |
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Week 8 |
Unit 10: TPM and Japanese Concepts: Kaizen |
Condition Monitoring and Maintenance Engineering-BME-025- IGNOU Course Materials
Plant Maintenance and Reliability Engineering- Prof. N.V.S.Raju, Sengage Learning India Publications
N.
Venkateshwarlu is Associate Professor, School of
Engineering and Technology, IGNOU, New Delhi. He attained his PhD in Total
Quality Management (2014) from SOET, IGNOU, New Delhi. He did his M.Tech. in
Industrial Engineering and Management (1996) from JNTU, Hyderabad. He did his
Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering (1989) from University
College of Engineering, Osmania University. He also completed his PG Diploma
programmes from IGNOU in three disciplines such as Distance Education,
Operations Management, Urban Planning and Development while in service. He
shows keen interest in learning new things in education, in this endeavour, he
completed two online MOOCs courses through courseera.com and gained
“Certificate in Urban Infrastructure Management-Part-I” in 2017 and “
Certificate in Smart Cities: Management of Smart Urban Infrastructure” in 2018.
During 1997 to till date he
designed, developed and launched a 98 credits programme on “ Diploma in
Mechanical Engineering(DME)” during 2006 to 2010 as Programme coordinator. He
also developed around 32 credit course materials for B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering
programme and Diploma in Mechanical Engineering programmes as course
coordinator. At present he is developing a new and innovative programme on “Diploma
in Smart City Development and Management (DSCDM)” in online mode and ODL mode
as programme coordinator. The work is in progress.
During 1990-97, he served
in a state govt. company called Allwyn Watches Limited, Hyderabad as Asst.
Engineer; Case Assembly and was responsible for day to production of case
assembly shop floor. He also suggested few indigenous materials for
substitution of imported materials which reduced the cost of materials.
After five years’ service, he had been promoted as Asst. Manager for
Machine Shop floor and taken responsibility as Shift In charge for production
of machining parts. He effectively managed the shift production on Automated
CNC machines and general lathe, milling and drilling machines. He also
worked as Asst. Manager, Industrial Engineering Department to establish time
standards in the machine shop floor operations. He could able to manage the
shop floor productions effectively by maintaining good relationships. He was
always tried for improving the quality of materials by implementing statistical
quality control methods at shop floors.
His research interests centres
primarily on improving the quality of manufacturing products, and increasing
the efficiency of processes, machines and manpower. He also published more
research papers on Distance Education, Industrial Engineering and Management
and Total Quality Management. He has about 29 publications to his credit which
includes research articles, conference presented papers, research papers in
journals etc;.
He received a Gold Medal
for his Research Paper on “Make in India” presented at Industrial Engineering
Conference held at NIT Surat in collaboration with IIIE, Mumbai in 2015.
In IGNOU, he prepared 32 Credits of SLM for various ODL
programmes. He was coordinating Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (DME)
programme from 2006 to 2019, Currently he is developing a Diploma in Smart City
Development and Management. He can be contacted at:
nvenkateshwarlu2008@ignou.ac.in / 8826655368
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Education |
University/ Academic Achievement/ Doctoral
Research |
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Doctor of Philosophy (TQM) Year 2014 |
Name of the University: IGNOU Discipline: Mechanical
Engineering Doctoral Research Topic: The
Study of Selected Issues in TQM in Auto Companies Academic Achievement: |
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Master of Technology (IEM) Year 1996 |
Name of the University: JNTU
Hyderabad Discipline: Mechanical
Engineering Dissertation Topic: Production
Planning and Control: A Case Study at Allwyn Watch Company Academic Achievement: |
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Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical
Engineering) Year 1989 |
Name of the University: Osmania
University Discipline: Mechanical
Engineering Academic Achievement: |
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PG Diploma in (Distance Education) Year 2000 |
Name of the University: IGNOU Discipline: Distance
Education Academic Achievement: |
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PG Diploma in (Operations Management) Year 2009 |
Name of the University: IGNOU Discipline: Operations
Management Academic Achievement |
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PG Diploma in (Urban Planning and Development)
Year 2018 |
Name of the University: IGNOU Discipline: Urban
Planning and Development Academic Achievement |
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Online MOOCs Course: Certificate in ( Management of Urban
Infrastructure- Part-I) Year 2016 |
Name of the University: Ecole
Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, Coursera.com Discipline: Urban
Planning and Development Academic Achievement : Online MOOCs |
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Online MOOCs Course: Certificate in ( Smart Cities: Management
of Smart Urban Infrastructure) Year 2017 |
Name of the University: Ecole
Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, Coursera.com Discipline: Urban
Planning and Development Academic Achievement : Online MOOCs |
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SR. No. |
Name of the
Fellowship/Awards |
Granting/ Awarding Institution |
Year |
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1. |
Gold Medal National Essay Competition on “ Make in India: Issues and
Challenges” |
IIIE Mumbai and NIT Surat |
2015 |
PUBLICATIONS: (Draft template
is given below)
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BOOKS: (authored)
+ (edited) = NIL
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RESEARCH
PAPERS PUBLISHED: 29
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Research
Papers in Peer Reviewed Journals: 12
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Chapters
in Books: NIL
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Papers
presented at International/ National Conferences: 17
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POLICY DOCUMENTS: NIL
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODY/ STATUTORY BODY
(INTERNAL/ EXTERNAL):
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Membership of Professional body/ Statutory body |
Name of statutory body/ institution/ |
Period |
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Life Member |
ISTE, New Delhi |
Life Member |
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Life Member |
IIIE, Mumbai |
Life Member |
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Life Member |
CEGR, New Delhi |
Life Member |
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Member |
Academic Council |
1998-2000 |
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Member |
School Board |
2000-2002 |
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Convener & Member |
School Council |
2011-2014 |
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Member |
Discipline Committee |
1997 to till date |
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CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE
30 Marks will be allocated for Internal Assessment (Final Quiz- Mandatory) which will be available at the end of the course and 70 Marks will be allocated for end term proctored examination.
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