This presentation showcases how a Reliability-Centered Design (RCD) approach transformed the creation of new wastewater treatment basins. Through a series of collaborative workshops, the client, design team, and contractor identified 95 opportunities for future O&M improvements, predicted high asset availability, and estimated lifetime costs, ensuring a reliable facility and a clear maintenance strategy from day one.
It was a dark and stormy night as we sat around the conference table discussing the best way to arrange the grid connection of the company’s new wind farm that was in design. Everyone was friendly, but it was a feisty conversation.
Reliability enters in the design phase of an asset. What are the 10 Rights of Asset Management? 16:11 Minutes. Ramesh Gulati of Jacobs presents right 2, Design. Change the way you think about asset management. Reliability centered design.
This presentation will provide a framework for mapping operational excellence into the capital projects process and designing for reliability, reviewing operational excellence principles with a view on how to integrate those principles in the design and capital projects process, providing for reliability and availability, ease of operation and ease of maintenance.
The SDIPF Curve is a visualization that attempts to graphically "bend time" to the benefit of investing in and achieving reliability by showing a lifetime snapshot of the asset over time.
Asset reliability and process professionals face an enormous challenged to tame the tsunami of data and turn it into useful information. With the advent of cheap IIoT devices, sensor data is growing 50 times faster than business data with only 2% of it actually being used! By 2025 the number of devices will double to 21 billion.
This presentation will cover how to align DfR with the corporate vision, mission and core values by establishing a declaration, preparing DfR charters for specific projects, and developing the corporate DfR framework and toolkit to ensure the momentum and commitments gained during the DfR workshop would continue to be a priority and the expected value, cultural influence, reliability, and performance results would be realized.
Part 1 in the June/July 2019 Uptime issue closed with the experience-based statement that failure risk can escalate by certain specification practices, including some contained in API 610. Without going into the many possible reasons for bearing life reductions, the quest for better bearings in upgraded process pumps elicits several observations that should be considered when preparing a modern pump specification.
Pumps are fluid machines that move liquids over short and/or long distances. They were invented well before the industrial revolution and even Archimedes tinkered with pumps, on or about 250 B.C., somewhere near the historic city of Siracusa in Sicily. Without pumps, modern process plants would not exist. But not all pumps are well constructed, well maintained, correctly installed, or properly operated. And while some pumps have stayed on-line without interruption for six years, others continue to experience random failures several times in the course of a year. Pump improvement can be both a career enhancer and a value-adding proposition, as this two-part article will show.
In this presentation, the speakers will make recommendations for various strategic design improvement areas which can increase the lifespan of the equipment from maintenance component failure and system breakdown view point.
Asset management has introduced a few key concepts which require a shift from focusing on initial investment to optimizing total cost of ownership (TCO). This is rooted in a risk-based and science-based approach to understanding the requirements of the assets throughout their useful life.
This presentation will introduce how including Reliability elements into the traditional gated project process enables,"Vertical Launch"‚ the concept producing prime, salable product or functionality at startup.
TRC-2018 Learning Zone 40:40 by Marie Getsug, Jacobs
Asset Management has introduced a few key concepts which require a shift from focusing on initial investment to optimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The is rooted in a risk-based and science-based approach to understanding the requirements of the assets throughout the useful life. The risk-based approach drives prioritization and optimization; whereas, the science-based approach honors the Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) experience as well as seeking meaningful data to drive decisions. Shifting from a mindset of initial cost, scope and schedule to a focus on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) requires a catalyst for change. Design for Reliability (DfR) answers this call. Recognizing the Stakeholder SMEs by capturing their perspectives, recommendations and experience in a Design for Reliability (DfR) Toolkit is one way to positively affect both the leakage from CapEx to OpEx and the results of Capital Engineering Projects. Building the timely activities and requirements applied at each of the DfR stage gates, by formally incorporating the contributions of each Stakeholder, fuels the results and enthusiasm for DfR and Capital Engineering Projects. Celebrate the perspectives of Stakeholders by discovering their contributions.
Most of the asset fail during operation, or defects which cause failures, get detected during the operational phase. What and who cause these failures? Is it operations (operators) and/or maintenance? In the past, maintenance and sometimes operations got blamed for these failures. Are they solely responsible? In recent years, we have learned that a majority of asset failures are caused by defects which are introduced during the design, procurement, build/fabrication, and installation, also known as acquisition phase. It is much more economical to correct these defects at early stages to design/build assets for reliable operations. This is what we call Designing for Reliability. This RAP Talk suggests that little more investing during the acquisition phase can reduce failures as well as the total cost of ownership.
IMC-2017 Focused Forum - 21:05 by Henry Ellmann, Ellmann, Sueiro y Asociados
The concepts and content of Physical Asset Management have evolved dramatically over the last few decades. From Nowlan and Heap’s RCM-Reliability Centered Maintenance in Aviation in the late 70’s, through John Moubray’s RCM2 in the last decade of the XX Century, NOW, “Maintenance” has evolved into Asset Management aligned with the Corporate Goals, contemplating Whole Life Cycle and Risk Based Strategies addressed to ambitious and welcome progress necessary to describe, understand and follow within the Corporate environment.
Back in the June/July 2006 issue of Uptime, I authored an article entitled Expanding the Curve detailing why the traditional P-F curve was incomplete. While it was expected that the article might elicit both positive and negative comments, it came as a surprise how strong some of those opinions were.
Think about all the initiator causes of failure that are not really related to maintenance. Initiator causes are those events, possibly microscopic, that initiate decay shown by the P-F curve. Examples of initiator causes might include heat, dirt, or overloading.
Today’s water and wastewater facilities must balance the demands of safety, environment and cost. With shrinking budgets, water and wastewater treatment facilities are asked to do more with