Design of Advanced Systems
Holders: Prof. Klemenc Jernej, Prof. Nagode Marko
Subject description
- Lecture: Prerequisites for design of complex systems: Product hierarchy and value chain; Effectiveness as a cross-section of product, operating conditions and environment; Failure as a random event.
- Lecture: Effectiveness and value of product: Reliability, maintainability and supportability as basis for product availability; Influential factors for the product’s value; Product’s attributes and life-cycle costs; R&D information and influence to costs; RMS development process as an upgrade of the conventional R&D process.
- Lecture: Statistical analysis of complex systems (basics): Probability distribution of a time to failure; Hazard rate; Basics of the Weibull’s analysis.
- Lecture: Assuring the functional performance of a complex system: Basic product structures and their influence to probability of service; Advanced product structures and their influence to probability of service; Complex systems and a function of the product’s structure.
- Lecture: Failure modes and failure models for complex systems and their components: Single-mode failure model; Multi-mode failure models (competing-failures model, mixed-failures model).
- Lecture: Design of advanced and complex systems: V-model for design of the complex-product; Definition of requirements for a technical system; Allocation of requirements to the lower hierarchical level of the product.
- Lecture: Design of advanced and complex systems: Measurement, prediction and analysis of load states in exploitation; Load distribution among the building blocks of the complex system.
- Lecture: Design of advanced and complex systems: Modularity of technical systems; Redundancy as a cost in-effective approach for assuring the functional performance of the complex system.
- Lecture: Design of advanced and complex systems: Decision for in-house development and manufacturing of components; Decision for procurement of components and their outsourcing.
- Lecture: Design of advanced and complex systems: Integration of basic elements into the components and sub-systems; Linkage between the product decomposition and integration phases; Validation of partial technical solutions; FMEA analysis.
- Lecture: Design of advanced and complex systems: Validation of the complex product; FTA analysis; Digital twin as a tool for analysis of interactions between the system’s building blocks.
- Lecture: Product maintainability as a prerequisite for its availability: Maintenance types and a time structure of a maintenance intervention; Influence of preventive maintenance to failure distribution of technical systems; Overhaul.
- Lecture: Product maintainability as a prerequisite for its availability: Planning of maintenance intensity as a function of an expected hazard rate of the product’s components; Proactive preventive maintenance; Reactive maintenance; Spare-parts supply and logistic support.
- Lecture: Case study of a R&D process for a complex high-series product – selected topics from a passenger-car development process.
- Lecture: Case study of a R&D process for a complex low-series product – selected topics from a development of an injection-moulding tool.
