Global maintenance build and strategy optimisation

Project synopsis

Without a meticulously designed and executed maintenance management regime, plants are subject to increased risk of equipment failure, loss of production, and excessive maintenance costs – which will directly impact the safety integrity and performance of the plant.

To truly optimise the client’s maintenance and materials regime and unlock the associated benefits that come with it, it was key to build this regime using reliable, structured, and quality master data. Realising the need to have this in place, ABL was contracted to deliver a global maintenance optimisation project where we were tasked with enriching the CMMS data and optimising the maintenance management regime, and associated spare parts in excess of 2 million equipment tags.

The challenge

To assure the right level of preventative and predictive maintenance and inspection, on the right equipment, was being done with the right materials, at the right time – no more, no less. Achieved through:

• Having the means to operate safely, by having complete visibility of what equipment they have, how its classified and risk ranked, how and when it should be maintained, and the materials that are required to do this
• Applying best-in-class maintenance strategies at an optimum frequency to mitigate failure, reduce risk and optimise cost
• Consolidating the client’s approach to maintenance and integrity management by migrating into one standardised global CMMS solution

What we did

The ABL team were contracted to deliver the review, enrichment, and optimisation of the client’s global approach to maintenance and integrity management. This included:

• Equipment identification: to ensure all equipment that requires maintenance was in the CMMS, by establishing and implementing the data standard
• Equipment classification and criticality: to ascertain how critical the equipment’s function is to the asset’s production and safety integrity, to determine the optimal maintenance requirements
• Equipment strategies: utilising an FMECA based approach and discovering existing pockets of maintenance excellence to apply learnings across assets, ensuring the optimum level of maintenance is assigned to equipment whether that be assurance, preventative, predictive, or contingency
• Equipment task lists: providing high-quality task lists, and a consistent approach to how maintenance is performed by the maintenance team
• Equipment materials: populating the CMMS with the correct BoMs to ensure the right spares parts are identified to execute the maintenance with consumable and contingency spares
• CMMS implementation: Hassle free CMMS upload templates adhering to the change management process