01. What does PSW Integrity do?
PSW helps organisations improve equipment reliability and manage asset integrity. Our work includes reviewing maintenance strategies, identifying risks and failure modes, planning improvements and providing engineering support to put those plans into practice.
02. When should we bring PSW in?
You can involve us when recurring failures are disrupting operations, maintenance plans need reviewing or you’re preparing for a change to your assets or processes. We can also help when you need experienced engineering support within your existing team.
03. Can you review the maintenance plans we already have?
Yes. We can assess whether planned maintenance reflects how equipment is used, how it fails and the consequences of failure. From there, we can help identify tasks that need changing, gaps that need addressing and where effort would be better spent.
04. Do you only provide recommendations, or can you help implement them?
We can support both. Depending on the project, PSW can help develop the plan, work with your team to put it into practice and provide embedded engineering support where additional capacity or specialist experience is needed.
05. What’s the difference between reliability and asset integrity?
Reliability focuses on whether equipment performs its intended function when needed. Asset integrity also considers whether assets can operate safely and meet their required standards throughout their life. The two often overlap, particularly where equipment failure could have serious consequences.
06. Can you help with safety-critical equipment and barriers?
Yes. PSW’s asset integrity work can link equipment to the major accident risks it helps control. This can include identifying barrier elements, defining performance standards and reviewing the maintenance and assurance activities needed to support their safety function.
07. Do you work on site with our team?
Where the work calls for it, our engineers can work alongside your team on site. That helps us understand the equipment, operating conditions and practical constraints before recommending changes or supporting their implementation.
08. What information do you need to get started?
A brief outline of the asset, the problem you’re seeing and what you want to improve is enough for an initial conversation. If you have maintenance plans, failure history or other relevant information, we can review those as the scope becomes clearer.