Do you currently know what you spent on heat exchanger repairs last year?  Do you know which mechanical seal manufacturer provides the best reliability for your pumps?  Do you know if Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is improving on your critical assets?  These are questions that are simple to ask but are difficult to answer if you do not have an effective approach for collecting critical asset history.

One of the main problems industrial plants have is a dependable approach to collecting history data on the numerous maintenance and inspection events that occur on their assets.  Computerized Maintenance Management Systems or CMMS have given us the promise of providing a repository for this important data but most industrial plants have not made effective use of these systems.

One of the key reasons we have been unable to collect this data are that we do not have a good classification of our current assets.  It is important to make sure that you have a workable equipment taxonomy in which to record maintenance and inspection history.  

PRG consultants have worked with many of the major continuous process and discrete manufacturing industries to help them do these types of things.  PRG provides one-on-one consulting services to help companies develop the necessary and sustainable work processes needed to understand how their equipment is performing.  With this valuable information, plant personnel can make informed decisions on where to best place resources to improve the overall effectiveness of plant assets and hence provide more production at the lowest unit cost.  All this while improving overall plant safety and being a good steward of the environment.

If you are having trouble collecting, organizing and analyzing maintenance history then you need to give PRG a call.  Let our consultants sit down with you and explain how we can work to develop a “Practical Approach” to improving the reliability of your equipment!

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