Taking into account the world’s increasing reference to the so called "Physical Asset Management" and the importance that it takes to meet the entire lifecycle of assets, and thus realize and understand their performance in any production process, it is fundamental to understand the various degradation mechanisms and the specific failure modes that may occur, not only looking at the equipment itself on a classic view of failure mode analysis, but also including a functional analysis considering the production process where the asset is operating.
It is expected that students have developed and acquired skills to recognize the equipment studied in a separate and different industrial environment of the studied concrete applications, be aware of some industrial processes having a more global view of certain technical operations and have developed the cognitive bases to address their duties with safety in their future professional life, whether linked to production process or over functions related to the maintenance of the facilities.