Maintenance Support Design & Redesign

Overview

Maintenance is a critical process and an expensive part of business costs, particularly for capital intensive organizations. One of the most difficult aspects of maintenance is the design and implementation of its support requirements.

Support requirements are often the most complex aspect of the maintenance program. If they are not designed correctly, it is unlikely that a maintenance program will work as expected. Moreover, as time goes on, the maintenance support requirements will change. This means that they need to be redesigned.

This is an outcomes focused program. The inputs are the data requirements to enable methods such as FMECA, FTA, RCA, etc to be carried out with integrity. However, the important part of that work is to deliver products such as the range of plans that can be used to economically support the operations and maintenance programs. That is, the outcome is the structure around the development of maintenance strategies such as RCM, TPM, etc. The ultimate goal is "Excellence through Maintenance".

An important aspect of this program is the focus on the methods of developing and assessing the elements of maintenance plans to ensure that they are continuously reviewed for relevance and usefulness.

The program is applicable to many organizations such as mining, petrochemical, utility operations and infrastructure, defence, local government, primary industry, facilities, etc. e.g. In a defence application, the outputs can link to the LSAR.

The program can be tailored to suit the specific needs of an organization, if required. It is consistent with AAP7001.038.

MSD&R Program Scope

We can deliver this program as either the analytical work, or as a comprehensive training course. In either case the scope of work is as follows.

Configuration Management and Codification
Dependability Programs
Determination of resource requirements
Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
Implementing resource requirements
Life Cycle Cost
Maintenance levels and repair policies (e.g. Level of Repair Analysis [LORA]).
Maintenance level determination
Maintenance plans
Maintenance procedures
Maintenance resource requirements
Maintenance Strategies
Maintenance Tasks
Maintenance support personnel
Obsolescence management
Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Principles
Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Repair policy determination
Resource plans
Six Sigma Principles

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