Reliability and asset management ensure equipment and systems work efficiently over their lifecycle. Reliability focuses on minimizing failures and downtime, while asset management optimizes performance, extends lifespan, and reduces risks and costs.
Asset management is the process of efficiently managing and maintaining assets, such as equipment or infrastructure, to optimize performance, extend lifespan, and reduce costs and risks.
Risk-based inspection helps our customers to reduce risks and improve asset safety and reliability. Our RBI service enables you to balance inspection costs and risk by using appropriate inspection and maintenance planning
Elixir Engineering is pleased to offer RAM studies to companies requiring an assessment of their system as a way of optimizing their system’s operational performance.
RAM studies are used as a way of assessing a production system’s capabilities, both in operation and those still in the design phase. As facilities and plants are being used for a longer period of time, a reliability, availability, and maintainability study is able to provide an assessment of the assets lifetime capabilities and enable businesses to maximize their return on investment.
With the combination of these three services combined into one study, ESC is able to offer a RAM study that models the predicted production capabilities of a facility.
Elixir Engineering has a number of reliability consultants that have worked on an extensive range of projects across a number of industries. In choosing Elixir Engineering to conduct your RAM Studies, our specialist RAM Studies Consultants are able to:
As well as offering RAM Studies, Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) is done if needed as part of the RAM Study.
Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) is an approach towards asset maintenance that determines how to maintain equipment safely and economically. With the RCM technique, we identify which scheduled maintenance tasks need to be assigned to equipment and at what frequency. It helps us to employ preventive maintenance (PM), predictive maintenance, and proactive maintenance techniques in an integrated manner. This increases the probability that a machine or component will function in the required manner with the minimum required maintenance. Hence, we understand RCM is a key technique to define a maintenance strategy that leads to optimal asset performance.
We make sure that all members of the analysis team understand and accept the rules and conditions of the analysis, like the scope of the analysis, gathering and reviewing relevant documentation, etc.
Since RCM analysis requires an investment of time and resources, the organization may wish to focus analysis on selected pieces of equipment. Hence, we select the equipment to be analyzed based on standard methods like selection questions and criticality factors.
Our objective for maintenance activities is focused toward preserving equipment functionality. Therefore, we first identify the functions that the equipment is intended to perform. Then, equipment functional descriptions are referred to in order to identify potential functional failures. This may include failure to perform a function, poor performance of a function, over-performance of a function, performing an unintended function, etc.
This step helps us to prioritize and choose the appropriate maintenance strategy while addressing a potential failure.
The cause of failure represents the specific cause of the functional failure and helps us to apply a maintenance strategy to address the potential failure.
Once we have identified the functions that the equipment is intended to perform and the ways that it might fail to perform, the next step is to define the appropriate maintenance strategy for the equipment. Our RCM analysis team’s decision of which strategy to employ for each potential failure is based on judgment/experience, a pre-defined logic diagram, cost comparisons, and a combination of other important factors.
Once the appropriate schedule maintenance tasks have been identified, the final step is to package them into a workable maintenance plan. This involves majorly scheduling preventive maintenance plans effectively and efficiently.
This helps our customer achieve:
Elixir Engineering has the capability to carry out asset data management for various plant assets and has completed many asset management projects for various operating companies within GCC, covering the following:
When the equipment does not function as per the specifications or undergoes breakdown, it is very important to identify what the root cause of the problem is. We see it as a critical factor since an accurate root cause failure analysis acts as a key input for reliability-centered maintenance (RCM).
An equipment critical analysis (ECA) is used to determine when equipment needs to be inspected or maintained based on priority. ECA, as per criticality rating, brings into account preventive and predictive maintenance that allows planning managers to determine which work orders need immediate attention and which can be rescheduled for a future. ECA also helps to determine the right quantity of spare parts required at the right time.
With appropriate analysis of ECA, we ensure availability of critical equipment with minimum downtime.
We develop a criticality model that defines the degree of criticality of particular equipment. Our analysis process takes into account downtime, safety, environmental issues, quality, failure, failure history, and other factors related to operational processes.
Our team of experts follows the rigorous process to identify the reason for failure and deliver the most suitable solution for reliable assets.
Shutdown is scheduled plant maintenance for an extended period of time. We get into the minute details of the processes and equipment, which is difficult to look into during standard operation time. With a well-managed STO process, we enhance the safety performance, integrity, reliability, maintenance cost, and efficiency of operations.
Planning is done to streamline task allocations, determine job procedures, identify labor requirements, and determine the budgets.
In scheduling, we focus on “just in time” delivery of spare parts, technical labor, and data availability.
Shutdown Maintenance costs are determined by maintenance activities. Actual cost thus calculated is compared to budgeted cost, and then the work process is planned accordingly.
The historical data provides us with the equipment’s date of purchase, last maintenance scheduled, history of usage, spares quality, and other minute details, which helps us to do the analysis for critical works to be accomplished
We make sure that work execution is done by our subject matter experts, and each minute details are monitored continuously during the complete execution phase of a shutdown.
We keep a record of all the problems faced during shutdown work execution for the useful planning of the next shutdown.
