ABL Develops Maintenance Programme for US Mining Company
ABL’s asset integrity management team has successfully developed a maintenance programme for the redesign of an acid plant in the USA. ABL uncovered areas in which the plant could benefit from a comprehensive training regime for on-site operations and maintenance staff, utilising the robust set of maintenance procedures provided during the project to enable this.
The overall scope of work for this assignment was to develop a maintenance build based on the fundamentals of Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) and a failure modes, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA). ABL also developed maintenance strategies including a preventive maintenance schedule, bill of materials (BoM) for new assets, critical spares list for new assets, and an asset hierarchy for the acid plant.
Further, ABL provided training to site staff, as well as developed comprehensive work instructions for the applicable mitigating tasks, including preventive maintenance services, preventive maintenance and functional failures.
ABL’s asset integrity management teams in Houston, Texas, managed the project, with support from the company’s office in Calgary, Canada.
ABL’s US Country Manager for Asset Integrity Management, Luis Gonzalez says…
“The maintenance programme for the redesign of the plant has been designed to maximise uptime and minimise operational downtime.
We are very pleased with the collaboration with our client and impressed with their dedication to helping develop and taking ownership of the maintenance programme.”
ABL has coast to coast presence in the US
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- Maintenance strategy optimisation
- Benchmarking and analysis
- Data migration
- Inventory and materials management
- Process safety management
- Asset life extension
- Training and competency
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