Four Maintenance Programs that provides immediate results

Four Maintenance Programs that provides Immediate results













Pre-Planned maintenance always proves to be very beneficial for Facility Manager as it helps to cut down costs and increase lift time of Equipment. Let's discuss today some of these methods to gear up Maintenance.

1. Lubrication:

Lubrication is the lifeblood of any plant that operates rotating equipment. And although it represents a relatively low percentage of the maintenance spend, it has the potential to result in very significant failure consequences if not managed correctly. As a result, the return on investment for lubrication improvements is very high.
A simple illustration of the effect is the calculation for bearing life found in ISO standard 281:2007. According to the standard, the difference in modified rating life of the bearing as much as 50% between high cleanliness and typical contamination. In other words, Lubrication can literally double component life.



2. Root Cause Failure Analysis:

The foundation of any business improvement or reliability program is RCF Analysis .The best part is anyone can do a basic RCFA investigation-Shop floor, Operators, engineers, Managers. The investigation is as simple as basic 5 Why or can employ more advanced techniques, such as fault tree or cause mapping. The investigation can be done in a matter of hours and days.

3. Preventive Maintenance Optimization:

PM hours often consume a large portion of maintenance time, which may result in overtime or the need for contract labor to perform corrective and emergency work. This is true especially in Facilities where new PMs are added as a result of misguided corrective actions that either does not address failure modes or address them incorrectly.
PM optimization is a process to systematically review PM tasks based on a set of specific criteria to ensure that each task is worthwhile and addresses a specific failure mode.

4. Shutdowns, turnaround and outages:

Improving the performance of shutdowns, turnarounds and outages can have a significant impact on any facility. In cost-focussed operations, a dedicated shutdown manager assigned to the STO is a small investment to ensure that projects are completed on time and that resources are used effectively to reduce contractor and equipment costs.














While it's true that achieving maintenance and reliability excellence can be a long and arduous journey, these activities will help to maintain momentum and provide substantial results both quickly and economically.

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