New plant construction specifies equipment to manage over the facility's life. The Master Equipment List (MEL) identifies production, control, fire, emergency, standby design equipment requirements. Equipment design strategy - symmetry, redundancy, margin, and monitoring - establish maintenance priorities .

Designers lay out plant equipment for system functional requirements. Process and instrumentation drawings (P&ID), process flow paths, services like control air, cooling, hydraulic power, or electrical power and controls make up designs. P&ID drawings establish processes and control, instrumentation, and redundancy strategy.

Equipment mapping identifies failure risks. Failure risks and causes guide applying templates. Equipment failure consequences influence safety and operating strategies. Developing a component maintenance strategy requires understanding and mapping equipment risk as a first step.

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