Commissioning, Reliability and Operations
Proving the facility works through commissioning and integrated testing, keeping it running with reliability engineering, maintenance and disciplined operations, and learning from failures.
DCE-450 Year 4 3 credits 12 lessons · 5 h 5 min
Offered by HSM University · Data Center Engineering
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Explain the purpose of commissioning, the roles of the owner, commissioning authority and project team, and manage an issues log
- Plan commissioning across the five levels, write test scripts with measurable acceptance criteria, and justify sampling statistically
- Specify acceptance and functional tests for switchgear, protective devices, UPS, batteries, generators and load banks
- Commission chilled water plant, air systems, liquid cooling and controls, and calculate thermal ride-through after a power interruption
- Plan and run integrated systems tests, analyze sequences of events, and prove concurrent maintainability and fault tolerance claims
- Calculate reliability and availability from failure and repair data for series, parallel and k-of-n systems, including common-cause failures
- Build reliability block diagrams, fault trees, FMEAs, Markov models and Monte Carlo simulations, and rank risk contributors
- Select maintenance strategies, apply condition monitoring and the maintenance standards, and optimize replacement intervals
- Staff a 24/7 operations team, write and maintain procedures, run drills, and control changes and configuration
- Design alarm management, measure efficiency with PUE, and manage and forecast redundancy-aware capacity
- Lead an incident response, communicate with customers, and carry out blameless root cause analysis with ranked corrective actions
- Integrate commissioning, reliability, maintenance and operations in a facility case study and project
Course content
12 lessons · 5 h 5 min total · final exam
- 1 Commissioning: purpose, process and people 26 min · quiz
- 2 Commissioning levels, test scripts and documentation 26 min · quiz
- 3 Electrical systems testing: switchgear, UPS, generators and load banks 27 min · quiz
- 4 Mechanical and controls commissioning 26 min · quiz
- 5 Integrated systems testing 26 min · quiz
- 6 Reliability engineering and availability 25 min · quiz
- 7 Reliability modeling: block diagrams, fault trees and simulation 25 min · quiz
- 8 Maintenance strategies 25 min · quiz
- 9 Operations: staffing, procedures and change control 24 min · quiz
- 10 Monitoring and capacity management 25 min · quiz
- 11 Incident response and analysis 24 min · quiz
- 12 Case study and course project 26 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Proving the facility works through commissioning and integrated testing, keeping it running with reliability engineering, maintenance and disciplined operations, and learning from failures.
Part of the Engineering stream, typically taken in year 4.