Academic Information (Spanish):
Degree:
Specialist in Industrial Maintenance
Delivery Mode:
On campus. 10 hours a week.
Duration:
3 Semesters
Credits:
Each semester consists of 8 credits, completing a total of 24 credits at the end of the 3 semesters to obtain the specialization.
Coordinator:
Mr. Luis Alberto Mora
E-mail: lmora@eafit.edu.co
Background: The program opened in 2002.
Justification:
Companies, in order to carry out their primary function of transforming, transporting a/o storing raw materials, supplies or finished products, require machines that are increasingly technologically complex and present a higher scientific level; due to the use, weathering and with the aging, those assets require a greater maintenance level in order to accomplish the mission for which they were designed and built.
For such purpose, the industries in developed countries (Canada, USA, France, Nordic Countries, etc.) spend between 7 and 18% of the capital (or their annual incomes) and in the developing countries such as Colombia, that number exceeds 25%.
In Colombia, since the 1960s, the greater employment area for the engineers is still Maintenance, which surpasses 35% of the employment for the Engineers who work in factories.
EAFIT University, aware of the above reasons, has designed the program in order to provide practical solutions to the current business needs of the country by taking advantage of its years of experience; for that purpose it has established a high scientific content program, with modern tools internationally used and applicable in the maintenance management and operation; with a program basically focused on our industrial reality; where instruments, operations, tactics and maintenance strategies of the higher industrial practice level are applied to allow the companies to reach high competitiveness levels as well as productivity, profitability, savings in the operation and maintenance, increasing the life cycle of the assets at the time that they reach the highest international levels regarding maintainability, reliability and availability.
Objectives:
To offer the student a program that will enable them:
- To design industrial maintenance strategies through the establishment of operations, actions and tactics.
- To issue concepts on the organization, the structure, the relations and the three maintenance structural elements as a whole; To generate an instrumental system that allows managing the information and the relevant actions regarding activities, processes and the maintenance system organization through a documental logistic system for the decisions making process.
- To understand the feasible maintenance operations through the differentiation of the maintenance corrective/predictive/modifying actions;
- To create maintenance tactics through the use and application of a logical set of industrial maintenance actions.
- To develop a successful strategy for the maintenance management through the use of indexes and comparative indicators with other industries; getting support from logistic and terotechnology maintenance systems and using international standards.
Aimed at:
Professionals who work on or require maintenance services or that use equipment in order to perform – in their companies or departments - the function of adding value to their productive/supply or distribution processes.
Managers, Engineers or similar that are willing to increase, renew or specialize their knowledge and experiences in the area.
Graduate's Profile:
The graduate from the specialization will be qualified to:
- Optimize the production process, the quality, the finances, the construction and the execution of corrective and preventive maintenance.
- Organize the planning, technical and administrative intervention of his/her related areas by developing organized maintenance programs.
- Watch and measure the production and maintenance processes from the financial and costs point of view through the economic sciences and personal knowledge and motivation.
- Audit, advise, plan, improve or implement any maintenance organization in every type of company.