Over the past twenty years, maintenance discipline has changed. With complex designs and new maintenance techniques, management of physical assets has emerged as an important element of business strategy. The asset management framework involves systematic & coordinated activities and practices through which an organization optimally manages its assets and their associated performance risks and expenditures for the purpose of achieving its organization strategic plan. The plan requires the most efficient maintenance which is the appropriate balance of Reactive/Corrective Maintenance (CM) to Preventive Maintenance (PM) to Predictive Maintenance (PdM). To arrive at the appropriate balance a structured process called ‘Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM)’ is to be implemented by the organization.
RCM involves all data sources, analyzing it to convert into actionable information to optimize maintenance and its associated costs. It ensures that an equipment never fails in ways it can be foreseen. Use of multiple technologies complementing strengths of each other improves the efficacy of equipment diagnostics and helps in realizing the true potential of technologies such as Vibration, Infrared Thermography, Acoustics& ultrasonic, lube oil current analysis, etc. It involves the study of failure modes experienced by the equipment, effect and consequence analysis to determine all maintenance tasks. RCM also provides a continuous improvement cycle essential to achieve a world-class level of maintenance.
To manage all maintenance tasks Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) tools are available to plan and close the work. Planning, scheduling, spare parts management, outage management can be accomplished systematically and effectively.
Efficient Powertech Solutions (EPS) has extensive experience in training & workshops, establishing systems and implementing all the components of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) across many power Stations and Utilities