Reliability improvement programs are systematic and integrated procedures for enhancing reliability at the plant level. RIPs address equipment, process operations and workforce organization and dynamics to recommend step-by-step measures to improve asset-specific and global reliability of a plant.
When robust and durable (reliability-centered) processes/systems are embedded in the organization, managing the plant equipment can easily become a routine task for the plant personnel. Quest Reliability’s senior engineers, with their many years of hands-on experience in plant operations, understand that a critical balance of planning, maintenance, inspection, and operations must be attained to reach reliability goals, and the mutually supportive interaction of the work crews in these areas is the key to success.
Typically a Reliability Improvement Program involves Risk Based Inspection and RBI Assessment. If rotating plant is involved, a reliability management audit and reliability centered maintenance assessment may also be required.
Quest’s Reliability Improvement Programs typically will address the following topics in detail:
- Maintenance systems and practices
- Production and process control
- Process and engineering design
- Planned turnaround management
- Risk-based management of critical and non-critical plant
- Equipment and process condition monitoring
- Remaining life analysis of aged plant
- Root cause analysis of lost production and failure
A multi-disciplinary approach to development of a Reliability Improvement Program is necessary, and must involve the participation of plant personnel. Quest Reliability follows a process of scoping, information gathering (often involving reliability audits and inspections), goal setting, plan development and preparation of detailed guidelines.
Benefits
- Improved asset utilization through better understanding the condition of your plant hardware and how best to manage this critical equipment over the long term
- Improved efficiency in terms of more effective systems and better management of processes and people
- Lower production costs
- Improved safety, health and environmental performance
For further information about Reliability Improvement please contact us.