Friday, January 9, 2009

Maintenance Prevention Pillar (MP) Details

-Effective Maintenance Prevention supports reduction of the vertical startup lead-time by improving the initial reliability and reducing variability of equipment and processes.
-In large part, MP improvements are based on learning from the existing equipment and processes within the Focused Improvement, Autonomous Maintenance, and Planned Maintenance TPM pillar activities.

-MP design activity minimizes future maintenance costs and deterioration losses of new equipment by taking into account (during planning and construction) maintenance data on current equipment and new technology and by designing for high reliability, maintainability, economy, operability, and safety.

-Ideally, MP-designed equipment must not break down or produce nonconforming products…The MP design process improves equipment [and process] reliability by investigating weaknesses in existing equipment [and processes] and feeding the information back to the designers.

-One of the goals of MP design is to break free of equipment-centered design mentality by adopting a human-machine system approach. In addition to equipment/process reliability and performance attributes, the systems approach will also look at the man-machine interface as it relates to operability and maintainability and safety.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

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