Reliability and Maintenance Consulting
Carmagen Engineering, Inc. helps bring about improved operational effectiveness of process plants for the oil & gas and related industries. Clients achieve higher levels of maintenance excellence in their refineries and other process plants as a direct result of applying our proven practices.
Many of the benefits generated from our involvement include:
- Cost-Effective Maintenance
- Greater Throughput
- Better Turnarounds
- Longer Runtimes
In just weeks, our programs can develop client-specific plans that result in:
- One quartile improvement in mechanical availability
- Savings of up to 25-30% of maintenance costs
- An increase of up to two years between turnarounds
- Increases of 1-2% in plant availability
Outlined here are the steps that can lead to a more effective maintenance program for a process plant and ways we can assist in accomplishing your goals.
Basic Steps to Excellence
- Assess current maintenance effectiveness in the plant
- Define parameters for measurement of effectiveness
- Identify organizational barriers to heightened effectiveness
- Pinpoint the procedures that need to be upgraded
- Establish incentives for change
- Benchmark the competition
- Cost indices
- Reliability parameters
- Turnaround performance
- Routine maintenance prioritization
- Overtime performance
- Establish improvement objectives
- Select long-term and annual improvement targets and simple measures of success
- Define the organizational and procedural improvements required to achieve those targets
- Develop a plan to achieve maintenance excellence
- Implement the actions and follow-up
The Role of Carmagen Engineering, Inc.
- Conduct an initial assessment of the client's current maintenance effectiveness
- Estimate the competitive position
- Define preliminary opportunities for improvement
- Identify highest pay-out organizational and procedural changes
- Work with the client's personnel to develop alignment for action plans to implement improvement
- Establish priority action plans
- Define resource requirements
- Develop timelines and milestones
- Assist with training/implementation of the selected improvements, such as:
- Communication and team-building
- Redefining roles/responsibilities
- Developing improved procedures
- Budgeting
- Daily work prioritization
- Turnaround planning
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