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IHEA Healthcare Facilities Management Conference 2017 – Common Approach For Asset Management And Statutory Obligations
Paper By: Dr Seyed Safi and Mr Michael Leversha This paper was presented at the IHEA Healthcare Facilities Management Conference 2017 Summary This paper describes the processes that assure asset management compliance with statutory requirements for maintenance delivery. The work involved the efficient upgrade of the asset management system from initial asset validation to a final…
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Proven Cost Benefits from Preventive Maintenance Strategy Rationalisation
Paper by: Mr Chris Cunningham, Senior Associate This paper sets out the cost benefits to an organisation who wish to reduce overall maintenance costs through rationalisation of their Preventive Maintenance (PM) strategy without increasing their overall risk to operations and still assure compliance to mandatory maintenance. This paper focuses on the savings potential by avoiding…
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Upgrading Maintenance Strategies for Established Plants
Summary This paper presents a methodology for the efficient upgrade of the maintenance strategies for all assets in existing facilities from initial asset confirmation to upload of the master data in the management system. The techniques are presented utilising a case study of a coal-fired power-station in Southeast Asia. The challenges which were addressed included…
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Informed Maintenance Planning
The starting point for improving maintenance planning is the establishment of a maintenance policy which embraces a work flow system, various techniques in monitoring reliability and work practices, and anticipates plant problems rather than reacts to them. This means that the company has a commitment to sustaining an information base which requires accurate data collection,…
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The Benefits of Practicing Enterprise Risk Reduction
Risk management is a pervasive tool which can be employed by both production and maintenance groups as a basis for communicating a perception and to use a priority-setting tool in the absence of detailed information. Used correctly, the quantifiable description of risk such as a risk level or safety index, can streamline work and consequent…
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Spare Parts Optimisation in Maintenance Improvement
The management and associated costs of inventory is an area of increasing concern. In the case study presented in this paper, considerable effort was allocated to managing the stores holdings in a cost effective way. The task remains to continually balance the investment in holdings versus avoiding costs due to not having a spare immediately…