Category: Papers
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Managing the Partnership Between Service Provider and Client for Maximum Results
This paper summarises recent experiences in developing effective working relationships between clients and the contracted maintenance service providers. The work is drawn across a range of industries including manufacturing, utilities and facilities, with remarkably similar issues being common to all. The emphasis on improvement requires three key attributes in the day-to-day working relationship: a vision…
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Predictive Maintenance Activities in the Context of a Maintenance Strategy Review
This paper presents material associated with assessing the effectiveness of a variety of condition monitoring approaches within the context of a predictive/preventative maintenance strategy. It promotes the concept that earlier thinking on the application of RCM may need to be assessed in the light of the growth of lower cost predictive maintenance and life forecasting…
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Managing the Process of Outsourced Contracts and Agreements
Maintenance is a lifetime of sustained effort to ensure that the assets of acompany continue to provide a service that will ensure that the organisationcan provide its designated service. As a consequence a maintenancecontract has very different business goals from the provision of servicesthrough construction or a one-off engineering exercise.
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Quality Manual for Maintenance
A quality document for maintenance was developed to assist project managers for a contract maintenance provider to understand the requirements for the delivery of their services. The manual was intended to form part of the quality system of the company, bridging between the general procedures observed under ISO9000 and the day-to-day running of the operation.…
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Asset Management Implementation
This paper presents various methodologies and issues associated with a total asset management process that embraces the use of capital and maintenance expenditure to ensure assets meet the full spectrum of operational requirements, including safety, performance and return on investment. Pervading the entire process is a risk management process that is a function of the…
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Maintenance Systems Formation
The major topics dealt with in this paper include identification of items to be maintained under a preventative maintenance schedule (PM) in a facility and the assessment of the criticality of each of the nominated items of plant. Based on the asset listing a preventative maintenance schedule and inspection plan, covering simple inspection, trade level…