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The government of one of the South African provinces decided to take drastic measures in order to make the ablution units in the schools, safe for the children to use. The biggest challenge are the schools situated in rural areas where there is no water supply and canalization to install flush toilets and the pit toilets must be used. The installation of the water supply and canalization / sewerage treatment plant was deemed to be too expensive. The school governing body decided to hire a qualified Maintenance Manager to come up with an innovative solution to solve the problem which caused unspeakable tragedy in some families where a child life was lost.
You are the Maintenance Manager of that rural school with over 800 learners and 20 staff members. One of your tasks as a Manager is to oversee a maintenance project to make the pit toilets hygienic and safe to use by the learners and staff alike. There is a small river nearby from where you may use some water, but during the dry season the water supply from the river diminishes as the river may run dry.
You are given 90 days and a budget of R 15 million for the facility upgrading project. In your project you will replace the old toilets; introduce new upgraded version of pit toilets using water from the nearby river and buy new necessary equipment to ensure all-year round water supply. As this project needs some geological and civil engineering knowledge, you will have to pay consultants in this regard. You also decide to implement Reliability Centered Maintenance as the RCM principles may be used for any project, not just in an engineering manufacturing plant.
Your task for this portfolio-type assignment is to write a technical report that demonstrates how you would co-ordinate and execute the entire project. Your report should highlight the following topics covered in the module:
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Write My Essay For Me- Project Management: Use the WBS to plan for your project, indicating all equipment involved, maintenance activities, human resource and all costs; (10)
- Networks for Projects: Prepare a network diagram for all activities in your project; (20)
- Reliability Centered Maintenance: Follow the RCM implementation process, apply it in your project and report it in detail. For example an RCM analysis on the equipment identified (water tanks, pumps, local sewerage treatment, etc.). Acquire failure data, identify measurement tools to be used and indicate how you will measure performance. Provide sample forms used; (20)
- Inventory Management: Decide upon the best practice in inventory management. Stipulate and justify the method you will adopt. Which spares do you decide to keep in your stores, costs and why. 10)
- Contract Management: You will hire contractors to perform some of the work in your project. What are the legal requirements and the formation of your maintenance contract? Justify the procedure followed in managing the contracts. How will the contractors be paid and justify. (10)
- Financial resources: Manage the above-mentioned budget between all personnel, contractors, equipment spares, mechanical work to be done and the purchasing of new and upgraded equipment. Provide details of your budget and provide motivations for overspending and under-spending. (20)
- Human Errors: You have identified that about 30% of the equipment failures are due to human errors. What are the causes of the human errors, what are the consequences of the errors and how are you planning to address them. How have you considered safety and risk management in this project? Indicate the budget spent to address human errors.
(10) - The more detailed the report is, the more marks awarded. Students are encouraged to do their own original work. Your help as an intelligent young engineer to be are needed to solve this problem and to save future lives. Although it seems this project is not 100% in the mechanical engineering field, your creative and innovative engineering mind is called upon to bring a solution to this problem. Always the engineers are in the front line when solving problems. Plagiarism will result in a zero mark for parties involved.
