Optimizing with PMO, RCMtrimTM allows users to define component type, service or other classes. PMO classes define duty cycle (high/low) and service (severe/mild) categories. To use PMO, users define equipment groups using a PMO format, like INPO's CHS matrix. Any classification can define a RCMtrimTM equipment group. In RCMtrimTM, independent risk basis lets PMO users comfortably develop risk-based component maintenance at a later time, if that's their choice.
In design, engineers select equipment to fulfill functional requirements. Cost, safety and reliability determine production capacity. Redundancy, equipment configuration, and instrumentation controls suggest strategies to best monitor plant operations to assure plant objectives are met.
Designing new plants, CORE develops
- Master equipment lists (MEL)
- Equipment layout maps (PIDs)
- Equipment risk profiles
Probabilistic risk assessment (PRAs) and other risk management techniques determine
- Systems and functions
- Equipment providing functions
- Equipment train and logic configurations
- Equipment layout symmetry that influences maintenance
- Assurance that designs will meet owner risk objectives
Designs stimulate further modeling, reconfiguration and re-specification. Before construction, modeling assures
- Availability and cost projections have been made
- Maintenance performability has been evaluated
- Design documents risk control strategy clearly
- Maintenance work orders adequately developed PM plans to implement
- Instrument and control strategies maintain design redundancies
- Condition-directed work has been identified
Modeling can project operating costs, equipment failure risks, probable operating performance losses (and causes), staffing levels, and other baseline information. These support operations with specific performance based goals and enabling plans. Architect-Engineers (AE) can improve design, rework underlying design bases.
