Major
Plant Components - Run, Repair, or Replace?
It's
4:12AM Sunday morning and three tubes in the unit 3 superheater
just let go. So much for your planned relaxing day with
the family. It's going to take all day Sunday and into early
Monday morning to make repairs and get the unit back online.
Lots of unplanned expenses and enormous lost revenues. Your
plant manager is VERY unhappy - again - and has lots of
questions. Is this going to start happening more and more?
Should we patch the superheater AGAIN? Or is it time to
re-tube the whole d*** thing? How do we justify the huge
expenditure if we should re-tube the superheater? Are the
unit 1 and 2 superheaters about to let go as well? How do
we cut down on these forced outages? What do we need to
do, when do we need to do it, and how do we justify it?
Structural
Integrity's new financial risk analysis service, coupled
with our inspection, failure analysis and probabilistic
remaining life analysis services, can answer your plant
manager's questions. We can quantify the long-range financial
impact of various run, repair, and replacement alternatives
in terms that both you and your plant manager can understand.
This not just answers his questions, it also provides you
the data you need to justify preventative maintenance budgets
that minimize forced outage costs. This maximizes company
profit from your plant, and drastically reduces those Sunday
morning call outs.
The
process quantifies the financial benefit of properly timed
predictive maintenance actions, such as inspection, detailed
remaining life analyses, or repair/replacement, for major
production components. Over coming months we will be posting
examples on our website of the application of this process
to a range of maintenance planning issues across a number
of component types and varied industrial applications. Stay
Tuned!!
In the
meantime, for more information on this exciting new service,
see the following links:
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