TABLE OF CONTENTS where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
Victor Hugo, French dramatist, novelist, and poet
Author: Mahen Das
Location: 2.5.1 Small Petroleum Refinery
The refinery adopted risk-based techniques such as RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) and RBI (Risk Based Inspection) as soon as they became available in the early 1990s. At the time of these events, they had just installed a CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System). With a strong tradition of good manual systems to plan, prioritize, schedule, and optimize resources, their transition to the CMMS was quite smooth.
Plant reliability was high and there were few breakdowns. With an effective prioritization system in place, there were few jobs which demanded urgent action.
Soon after the introduction of the CMMS, I visited the refinery as an internal maintenance and reliability consultant. As a step in their continuous improvement program, they agreed to try out the day-to-day maintenance management process, previously described in Chapter 5 and illustrated in Figure 24.1. Refineries that consistently perform well, or top performers, consider this as best practice and use this business process.
The main features of this process are:
The key participants in...
