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Plant
Operations & Maintenance Optimization Program |
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Plant
Audit & Optimization
We are able to help all customers with their
Operations & Maintenance Optimization Program
(O&M) covering analysis of process, failure,
reliability and oil. We have carried out 4
O&M contracts for national power plant in
Indonesia.
All process industries require some form of plant
performance monitoring. In addition to the
healthcheck function, performance monitoring more
importantly serves to guide appropriate
operational and maintenance activities to ensure
that plants are optimized and continuously
performing to expectations. At the management
level, high level targets are set on a monthly or
annual basis which are based on past performance
appraisal and external benchmarking. These
targets are then translated to plant targets
which drive plant adjustments and maintenance
activities. At the operational level this cycle
repeats daily.
Most established process industries should
already have such systems or at least some of the
elements in place. However getting the
organization and work flow aligned to achieve the
daily “monitor and optimize” objective
remains largely elusive. There can be multiple
reasons for these difficulties. Monitoring models
may not be consistent with management targets or
online advanced control and optimization systems.
There could be a lack of clarity on required
operator actions to close gaps between actual and
targets.
When deviations from target are not expressed in
monetary terms, priority setting and incentive to
correct such deviations become highly
judgemental. Real time plant information may not
be complete or accurate enough to be used in an
automated manner - a significant amount of manual
manipulation is therefore required. This takes up
resources and causes delays in results feedback
to be used for daily operational decision making.
Operational and Engineering buy-in to use this
system reduces and usually the well intended
plant performance monitoring and optimization
system reduces to a management information system
that only serves a reporting function.
With a technical team of dedicated and qualified
consultants who are very knowledgeable in their
chosen field of expertise ranging from
Reliability Engineers (certified Vibration
Specialists by the Vibration Institute in USA),
Turbine Engineers, Instrumentation & Controls
Engineers, Process Engineers, etc., we are able
to help customers achieve substantial savings and
this savings is shared between our customers and
us.
However, before proposing for a total reliability
O&M contract, we would need to carry out a
plant assessment first to establish the following
parameters : -Is your plant performing as good
as it should be ? -If not, do you know why and
where ? -Do you know what can be done ? -Do you
know how much improvement can be recovered ? -Do
you know how much it is costing you ?
From the assessment, we can make a proposal for :
-Establishing Optimum Performance of Plant
-Maintenance -Operational Work Practices
-Reviewing Existing Performance Monitoring Tools
and Methods to Monitor & Improve Organization
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