During the lifecycle phases of a Project, starting from the Project Concept, followed by a feasibility study/preliminary Design and then the detail of the asset design, there are a lot of opportunities for influencing the quality of the asset in terms of: construction, functionality, reliability, availability, maintainability, inspectability and cost.
Maintenance Engineering and Asset Integrity Management are sure two approaches useful to evaluate the lifecycle of the asset, during the different phases of a Project, and finalized to optimize the Asset Life.
MAINTENANCE ENGINEERING
DATA & DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
- Managing data & document relevant to components, materials and documents
- Cost reduction
- Rationalization and optimization of company processes integration of engineering, maintenance and production
MASTER EQUIPMENT LIST – MEL
- Definition of the item to be included in the maintenance analysis
- Development an appropriate “maintenance manual” for the collection of all the vendor operation and maintenance manuals
OPERABILITY & MAINTAINABILITY ANALYSIS
- Checking and assuring operability and maintainability aspects
- Ensuring that engineering and procurement of project facilities meet safety, accessibility, operability, maintainability and HFE objectives
RELIABILITY CENTRED MAINTENANCE – RCM
- Determination of “what activity” is required for each item in terms of maintenancem
- Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) development
- Criticality analysis development
- Selection of the right maintenance policy to apply for each item
- Customized maintenance plan
RAM ANALYSIS
- Evaluation of the reliability, availability, maintainability and safety of complex systems
- Determination of the production availability
- Suggestion of potential solutions in order to improve the reliability and the availability of the plant
WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT
- Managing and optimization of all spare parts necessary for the operations
- Material coding
- Optimization of the warehouse stock levels with the anticipated behaviour of the equipment
- Availability and storing into the site warehouses
- Interchangeability report
CMMS
- Document management
- Maintenance activities management and scheduling
- Approving work flow
- Resources and material optimization
- Key performance evaluation
ASSET INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT
INSPECTION ASSET REGISTER
- Clearly definition of the item to be inspected
- Appropriate, adequate and customized inspection plan
- Rationalization and optimization of company processes integration of engineering, maintenance and production
CORROSION LOOP
- Definition of homogeneous groups of items in terms of design, operating parameters, material, and inspection topics
- Determination of potential damage mechanisms, corrosion types and corrosion rates for each corrosion loop and item
- Risk ranking
DEGRADATION MECHANISMS
- Identification of the appropriate degradation mechanism
- Determination of the susceptibilities for all item
- Quality, appropriate and effectiveness of the inspection techniques to be selected
RISK BASED INSPECTION – RBI
- Optimization of the inspection activities performed
- Risk ranking
- Improving the management of the assets integrity and reducing the overall costs for inspection and monitoring
- Identification of the areas and items with higher risk categories and development a prioritized list for more in-depth inspection or analysis
FITNESS FOR SERVICE – FFS
- Procedures assessment
- Taking in consideration of the plant history
- Calculation of the remaining life of an item
- Defects characterization
INSPECTION PLAN
- Development of the appropriate and customized inspection plan
- Development of written scheme of examination linked for each item in order to manage what, when and where inspection will be performed and the most appropriate inspection techniques
CIMS
- Inspection activities management and scheduling
- Approving work flow
- Inspection report management
- Non destructive testing – resources and material optimization
- Remaining life and corrosion rate calculation