SERVICES

To ensure optimal operations, Maintenance as a Service requires the management of maintenance and operations of all assets. If existing maintenance contractors and operators already perform the actual maintenance and operations, but a co-ordination and overall management function are required, we can manage the assets, schedule maintenance activities and undertake operational analyses to ensure the optimal operations and maintenance is done.

Most companies record data from SCADA, control systems, PLC’s, computing systems and management systems. This data is seldom used for maintenance purposes. IMS-International, as part of their involvement with World Class Maintenance in the Netherlands have implemented predictive models using this data. The predictive models, can predict upcoming problems and failures on the equipment prior to occurrence, giving the maintenance manager indication where problems are going to occur and better control on scheduling the required maintenance and avoiding unscheduled downtime.  Our Integrated Maintenance Management Solution (IMMS) can then be used to manage the maintenance activities.

Predictive Models

The Predictive models analyze the data to identify problems with the following:

• Bearings and couplings
• Electric motors and gearboxes
• Sensor problems
• Misalignment of equipment
• Wear and tear
• Status of components for example roller roundness and operational condition
• Evaluation of operational plant parameters to determine abnormal behavior as a result of maintenance requirements.
• Failure modes and rate of deterioration of structural components, where they can be accessed.
• Deterioration of high energy consumption plant and when to refurbish the plant.

Benefits:

The benefits of using our Predictive Maintenance Models include:

• Reduction on downtime, increase uptime
• Less reactive maintenance and plant downtime
• Reduction in costs for monitoring solutions
• Improvement in maintenance scheduling
• Utilizes your existing data
• Management of upcoming problems and failures using an optimized structured approach

Asset Assessment

The assessment is a technical assessment to determine the operational state of the assets. The assessment of an asset provides input to the maintenance process. The overall assessment score is rated from poor to excellent. The asset assessment is usually performed initially after the initial completion of the asset register, and thereafter yearly, quarterly or bi-annually. The assessment is a requirement of IFRS and mSCOA.

The assessment of an asset also includes taking pictures of the problems with the asset. These problem areas are then addressed during the maintenance actions.

The asset assessment process shall be managed and performed by our Engineering team, in co-operation with the other on-site, all facility maintenance teams and contractors.

The assessment process is performed using the IMMS mobile application and then uploaded to the IMMS server for analysis

Asset verification

The asset verification process is used to verify the existence of the assets and record additional information about the asset. The asset verification is also a requirement of IFRS and mSCOA.

The asset verification process will be performed once the asset register is imported into the IMMS solution. This verification can include the tagging of the assets, using barcode labels or NFC/RFID (radio frequency tag) devices. Asset information identified during the verification process will be compared to the asset register information, and the asset register will be updated. Missing assets identified during the verification process will be added to the asset register.

Information recorded during the verification process on the assets, include the information on the nameplates (if any) and can include the serial number, part number, manufacturer, version, location or any relevant information to identify the asset in the future. Pictures of the assets will also be taken and recorded as part of the asset information in the asset register.

The asset verification is usually performed initially after the initial completion of the asset register, and thereafter annually, quarterly or bi-annually.

The verification process is performed using the IMMS mobile application and then uploaded to the IMMS server for analysis.