Analyse Processes

The reliability and productivity of non-monetary assets are essential to an organisation’s financial success. Maintenance of these assets can dramatically impact the overall performance and useful life of an asset. For this reason, asset owners and operators and asset service providers should continually revise and improve their maintenance practices.

Agulhas will analyse the maintenance planning processes, making sure that the data has been imported and the essential cost centres, departments, equipment locations, types, and categorisation and the numbering of the assets have been done correctly and see to it that the missing critical assets have been captured.

Redesign Processes

Under certain circumstances, Agulhas’s advisors may consult external bodies, such as product or system suppliers, staff at consulting firms, professional institutions or universities, to obtain the necessary information to make educated decisions regarding process redesigns.

Assess Equipment Conditions

A day in the life of your infrastructure assets is full of change — systems are repaired and replaced, renovations begin and end. This dynamic environment can leave municipal planners and managers with gaps in their knowledge about current conditions, requirements and renewal needs, particularly in organisations that manage a large or geographically dispersed group of assets.

Agulhas will audit the company’s asset portfolios using our web-based Enterprise Asset Management System. The surveys guide managers, maintenance personnel and others who may lack expertise in infrastructure asset assessments in gathering information about the assets.

A surveying process, designed to collect data about mixed-use assets, guides users in conducting audits with standard questions.

Analyse Maintenance Practices

This approach to maintenance is totally reactive and only act when the equipment needs to be fixed. This strategy has no routine maintenance task and also described as no scheduled maintenance strategy.

This is a time-based maintenance strategy where, on a predetermined periodic basis, equipment is taken out of service, opened up and inspected. Based on visual inspection, repairs are made and the equipment is then put back in service. Thus, under this equipment maintenance strategy, replacing, overhauling or remanufacturing an item is done at a fixed interval regardless of its condition at the time.

Predictive maintenance is a more condition-based approach to maintenance. The approach is based on measuring of the equipment’s condition in order to assess whether an asset will fail during some future period, and then taking action to avoid the consequences of that failures.

Dissimilar to preventive maintenance that is based on time intervals or predictive maintenance that is based on condition monitoring, proactive maintenance concentrate on the monitoring and correction of root causes to equipment failures. The proactive maintenance strategy is also designed to extend the useful age of the equipment to reach the wear-out stage by adaptation a high mastery level of operating precision.

Reliability Improvement