PEME works with you to conduct a maintenance assessment of your current plant maintenance practices.
Conducting a maintenance assessment enables you to identify continuous improvement opportunities and formulate a prioritised improvement plan. This leads to real improvement in the productivity and profitability of your plant.
The purpose of the maintenance assessment is to:
- Establish existing preventive maintenance arrangements.
- Review existing processes for defining preventive maintenance (e.g. Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM)).
- Establish the factors that will influence a preventive maintenance improvement initiative.
- Provide a through-life strategy for preventive maintenance management within your plant.
The key activities are, as follows:
- Establish and review:
- Existing preventive maintenance tasks and task intervals.
- Current Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) techniques in-use.
- How existing maintenance candidates are identified.
- How maintenance task definition is currently conducted.
- Whether existing plant maintenance task descriptions are unambiguous, quantitative and provide the engineer with relevant information such as limits and access requirements.
- Lessons-learnt from any previous reliability improvement initiatives.
- Available data inputs (e.g. CMMS extracts, asset lists, work cards, failure data, manufacturer manuals, drawings, etc.).
- Available resources (e.g. experienced on-site engineers with local knowledge).
- Improvement initiative ‘purpose’ definition (What do you want to achieve?).
- Required deliverables (output) and format (e.g. task details for CMMS population).
- Organisation engineering structure.
- Any other site improvement initiatives that may impact a reliability improvement initiative.
- Any conflicts, risks or potential duplication of effort.
- Identify:
- If a more appropriate candidate criticality and analysis approach is required.
- Potential reliability improvement opportunities.
- Plant specific future preventive maintenance management strategy.
The PEME maintenance assessment promotes engineering asset management good practice and helps you to achieve real-world reliability improvements.
