Maintenance Options

Contents

Introduction to Tagus International Ltd

Preface

What is ‘maintenance options’?

Introduction

Some theory about developments in maintenance

Audience

Structure of this book

International standards

Maintenance options

Steps in developing the maintenance plan

Step 1.0 Establish or update equipment register

Introduction

1.1 Categorise equipment and operating systems

1.2 Produce or develop maintenance asset hierarchy

1.3 Produce or develop current equipment register

1.4 Determine equipment responsibility

1.5 Use current equipment register

1.6 Monitor item status

1.7 Review current equipment registe

Step 2.0 Rank equipment by function and potential consequences

Introduction

2.1 Is equipment on the register?

2.2 Rank by function

2.3 Potential consequences

Step 3.0 Determine equipment categories

Introduction

3.1 Categorise equipment

Step 4.0 Analyse failure modes and effects

Introduction

4.1 Define the system, its function and equipment

4.2 Collect and review all appropriate data

4.3 Review potential failure modes and their effects

4.4 Conduct failure modes and effects analysis

4.5 Allocate risk priority numbers

4.6 Determine effect of risk mitigation on equipment and systems

4.7 Issue recommendations and list potential failures and analysis report

Step 5.0 Conduct reliability centred maintenance (RCM) analysis

Introduction

5.1 Identify, assess and organise

5.2 Prepare for RCM

5.3 Perform RCM and recommend strategy

5.4 Review and feedback

Step 6.0 Identify maintenance tasks

Introduction

6.1 Call for data

6.2 State maintenance option tasks

Step 7.0 Develop a maintenance plan

Introduction

7.1 Determine resource requirement

7.2 Develop maintenance plan

7.3 Produce and agree the spares list

7.4 Agree staff competency and provide competent staff

7.5 Issue maintenance plan

7.6 Implement maintenance plan

Step 8.0 Review equipment performance and maintenance activities

Introduction

8.1 Collect equipment and maintenance data

8.2 Collect key performance indicator (KPI) data

8.3 Review equipment performance

8.4 Produce report

Appendix 1 Measures

Appendix 2 Different maintenance concepts

References

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