Didactic of Teaching Failure Analysis and Logistic Planning Software

The possibility to develop reliability analyses and simulations for the logistics of warehouses for industrial companies resulted in an increase of their safety and reliability since the development of such process. The applicability of the failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) has been taught for many years to the students of the Italian universities in order to prepare the future engineers to face, in the most efficient ways, the problems in the industrial field. The university of Genoa has contributed to future studies by developing a new software called TARAS, specifically dedicated to the failure analysis of mechanical systems and complex plants. This software has been designed to model the operation of a complex system aiming at determining the integral parameters for availability, reliability, and failure probability. The logistic planning is meanwhile taught during both bachelor’s and master’s courses of mechanical engineering. The knowledge acquired on simulation software is part of the essential competences that industrial engineers should acquire nowadays. In the past years, simulation software have been taught and actively applied to several case scenarios, making the students of our university and of foreign partner’s universities aware of the various application of these technologies. When describing the case regarding the teaching of TARAS, this has been proposed also to the bachelor’s students of the environmental safety department of Bauman Moscow State Technical University during the yearly seminar on Environmental Monitoring and Industrial Safety. With this study we want to show the efficiency of such software for industrial applications and how these can be effectively taught to students.