RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
At PSW Integrity, our certified reliability engineers are professionals who understand the principles of performance evaluation and prediction to optimise product, systems, reliability and maintainability. PSW is a body of knowledge and applied technologies which deliver, however, are not limited to, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, understanding human factors in reliability, Planning and scheduling, KPI Dashboard, Training and the ability to develop Reliability facilitation over the entire product and system life cycle.
The Best Way to predict the future is to create it with a PSW Integrity Maintenance Programme.
An accurate and 'live' asset catalogue, developed by the relevant personnel, and verified in the field is considered best practice.
An asset catalogue is the foundational element of any maintenance or reliability initiative and consists of not only the list of assets but also includes system descriptions, component configurations, component attribute data, hierarchy structure, etc.
The reason an asset catalogue is considered 'foundational' relates to the effective management of assets. If there are errors, all maintenance and reliability initiatives will be flawed, leaving assets without effective management.
Walkdown - Asset Catalogue
An equipment maintenance plan identifies what tasks should be deployed/implemented to most effectively manage the failure modes present in assets.
Best practice programs plan and schedule at least 80% of the daily tasks to drive efficiency and proactive work. It is proven that planned work is 50% more efficient and causes less infant mortality than reactive.
A high percentage of daily work hours should be Planned Maintenance (PM), Condition Monitoring and also follow up work created from those inspections.
All tasks must be well written and designed to effectively eliminate, manage or inspect failure modes, reduce risk of human error, and deliver optimum feedback and history into the CMMS.
Equipment Maintenance Plan
Criticality / Consequence Classification is the most effective deployment of the limited resources (spares, manpower, time, condition monitoring) within an organisation.
It is important to carry out criticality analysis on all assets to identify which have the biggest impact on operations, safety and the environment. The best practice approach is to involve personnel from each area of the business (cross-functional team) i.e. operations,
maintenance, health and safety etc. to gain consensus.
A criticality assessment must be executed by a cross-functional team and can be facilitated by a PSW Integrity certified reliability engineer.
Criticality/Consequence Classification
PM Evaluations (PME)
PSW Integrity has proven that most existing Asset Management programmes contain tasks which are not value-adding, do not address failure modes and highly dependent on experienced personnel and can be changed to condition monitoring tasks.
A best practice asset management programme is a failure modes driven programme. PSW Integrity will optimise existing maintenance programmes and compare the PM tasks with world leaders or best practice PM/CM and ensure all tasks; effectively address failure modes, reduce human error, drive repeatable and consistent results, maximise ability to plan and schedule/load level, identify the defect before it causes failure and enable senior personnel to make informed decisions based on scientifically proven technologies. Best practice asset management programmes have a balance of PM and CM and asset care routines to maximise reliability and operational integrity.