Module Code - Title:
ME6302
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CYBER-PHYSICAL EQUIPMENT PROCUREMENT
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module will introduce the student to robust processes, tools, and techniques, for the procurement of manufacturing equipment and associated systems integration technologies.
Through lecture and group activities, they will be introduced to industrial best practice, which they can leverage in the workplace, for the procurement of manufacturing solutions.
Students will be introduced to different models of equipment procurement and techniques for the design of equipment procurement process. This will enable them to ensure that an appropriate level of systems integration has been achieved, to deliver the required functionality for internal customers in a manufacturing organisation.
This module will develop technical, project management, and collaborative competencies.
Syllabus:
The syllabus of this module will cover the following topics:
• ISA 95 & ISA 99
• Managing competencies, personalities, and team dynamics, as part of an equipment procurement process
• Overview of an Industrial Equipment Archetype
• Manufacturing productivity and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
• Concepts of DiVOM (Design, Integration, Validation, Operation and Maintenance), Overall System Effectiveness (OSE), and Equipment Procurement Process (EPP)
• DiVOM & OSE workbook
• EPP documentation and Best Practice Guides (BPG)
• Validation BPG
• Operations BPG
• Maintenance BPG
• Integration BPG
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Analyse an equipment archetype from an ISA 95 and ISA 99 perspective.
Apply the DiVOM & OSE workbook to calculate the OSE Rating for your specific EPP.
Leverage and apply the available best practice guides for your specific EPP.
Evaluate, suggest, and recommend appropriate measures to increase the OSE metrics.
Consider and suggest how the requirements contained in the best practice guides could be improved.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
Appreciate the effect of personality type on working habits.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
The module will comprise lectures where students will work collaboratively in Equipment Procurement Project teams. There will be an emphasis on problem solving, and students will complete their Equipment Procurement Project based on the equipment archetype, best practice guides, and DiVOM & OSE workbook provided. On successful completion of this module, students will be both knowledgeable and creative in the use and application of an Equipment Procurement project in the manufacturing sector.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Leondes, Cornelius T. (2001)
The design of manufacturing systems
, CRC Press
Scholten, B. (2007)
The road to integration: A guide to applying the ISA-95 standard in manufacturing
, ISA
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
MEEQSETPA - EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS ENGINEER (APPRENTICESHIP)
PDEQSETPA - EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
MPPPRPTPA - PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
eoin.hinchy@ul.ie