Maintenance Strategy

Maintenance Strategy

Safety and Reliability

Operational or concept facility was designed with the intent to meet certain reliability, availability and utilisation targets. In some industries safety standards are regulated by the government and minimum design and maintenance requirements are prescribed.

Original equipment reliability targets assumptions and calculations may change due to operational experience, like maintenance records results, trip recovery times or equipment alarm system response - and site maintenance strategy tailored for actual facility operational data is recommended for the best result to improve safety and reliability.

Site Strategy

Development of new or review of existing Maintenance Strategy should be reviewed in the context of applicability of internal and external standards, including legal regulatory requirements specific to technical equipment class. A guide internal standard for development may be available as a blueprint for site specific document minimum expectations.

In some cases maintenance strategy is recommended by vendor of the equipment which could be reviewed against local reliability targets.

Essential part of Maintenance Strategy development is Failure Modes Analysis which may supported by Asset Criticality Assessment, for each equipment, component or material which forms part of the engineering system. This approach can be time consuming but it is trialed and tested in the industry to deliver most efficient maintenance strategy approach.

Complete maintenance strategy can be combination of run to failure, sample based or time based inspections / tests / preventative maintenance – which must comply with the business drivers, maintenance budget and execution feasibility.

High Reliability Organization

Proposed Maintenance Strategy should be assessed against company safety requirements, reliability targets and carbon loading to validate that best industry practices align with accepted standards.

The key deliverable is development or update of Maintenance Strategy specific to your facility with clear pass/fail indicators for different technical equipment.

The strategy review process should apply continuous improvement mindset and the maintenance strategy should be a live document.

The business driver to support maintenance strategy activity must be robust to ensure safe and reliable site and to ensure that the facility operations are low cost and low carbon.

Besea Maintenance System delivers total lifecycle facility maintenance solution from Maintenance Strategy to planning and execution of Work Request, where the Maintenance Strategy is the foundation in the high reliability organisation, where all identified high risk failure modes are prevented by time or condition based strategy.