Reliability Based Asset Management

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Reliability Based Asset Management

• Reliability-Based Asset Management (RBAM) takes a
  holistic approach to caring for the assets that
  everyone in your company relies on to produce
  your end product and earn the revenues that keep
  your business competitive and profitable. RBAM
  is NOT simply a maintenance department initiative
  to attain high asset reliability. It is holistic
  in that it affects how business is done by all
  departments, and its success depends on the
  participation and commitment of all departments
  to the processes and practices that provide high
  asset reliability.
• Performance Associates can work with you to
  develop an implementation strategy that allows
  you to grow a reliability culture in your
  organization, and reap the benefits that an RBAM
  culture has to offer. Performance Associates has
  at its disposal a wide array of tools to help you
  achieve your reliability goals, including
• Reliability Maturity Audit
• Trade Skills GAP Assessments
• Performance Audits and Time Studies
• Reliability Engineering Training and Mentoring
• Reliability Centered Maintenance Analysis (RCMA)
  and Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
• Preventive Maintenance Optimization (PMO)
• Predictive Maintenance Optimization (PdMO)
• Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)
• Computerized Maintenance Management System Audit
  and Configuration
• Business Process Mapping
• Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Development
• Master Equipment List Development and Criticality
  Ranking
• Equipment Specific Maintenance Task Training
• Change Management
• Equipment Bill of Material (BOM) Development

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Reliability Maturity Audit

• One size does not fit all when it comes to
  Reliability-Based Asset Management (RBAM)
  implementations. Different companies have
  reached different levels of maturity with regard
  to reliability initiatives. This is why the
  first step in the process of developing an RBAM
  culture is to assess your current culture and
  approach as a part of a site survey.
• Performance Associates can conduct a Reliability
  Maturity Audit to assess your current maturity
  with regard to RBAM. The results of the
  Reliability Maturity Audit provide the data
  needed to form a strategy for Reliability Based
  Asset Management. The strategy developed may
  require the use of one, a few, or many of the
  tools provided by Performance Associates.
• Performance Associates can manage all or part of
  your RBAM implementation, all the while training
  and mentoring your personnel in the practice of
  RBAM so that the practices take hold and become a
  part of your culture. We can also lead or assist
  with your Change Management requirements to
  ensure that your RBAM implementation efforts
  remain focused, on track, and ultimately
  successful.

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Trades Skills Gap Assessment

• Enterprise reliability goals cannot be achieved
  if there is a gap between the skills and
  abilities of personnel and the requirements
  defined by the goals.
• Performance Associates can quantitatively assess
  the skills of your existing work force by
  conducting a training needs analysis to determine
  if they possess the necessary skills and
  abilities required to support your
  reliability-based asset management strategy. The
  outcome of an assessment details the necessary
  skills, as well as the Skills Gap--where the
  skills are lacking--including
• A quantitative ranking scale.
• Rolled up results by organizational hierarchy.
• Highlighting of critical skills shortfalls.
• Priority list of where to focus training.
• Development of the most cost-effective approach.

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Trades Skills Gap Assessment

• Most importantly, the Trades Skills Gap
  Assessment allows a plan to be developed to close
  the skills gap.
• Oftentimes a large portion of the gap can be
  attributed to a lack of detailed familiarity with
  your specific assets. This gap can be easily
  bridged by Equipment-Specific Maintenance Task
  Training programs developed by Performance
  Associates. These programs are customized
  computer-based or hard-copy maintenance training
  modules that are targeted to your specific
  assets. They are not generic. These programs
  teach your personnel the correct way to perform
  specific maintenance tasks on your specific
  assets, thereby improving asset reliability.

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Performance Audits and Time Studies

• Reliability goals cannot be achieved if company
  resources are not used efficiently. These
  resources include personnel, as well as support
  equipment and services. Good reliability-based
  asset management practices focus on efficient use
  of all your resources.
• Performance Associates can conduct a performance
  audit of your resource utilization in order to
  identify opportunities for improvement. The
  results of performance auditsin the form of
  Business Process Mappingcan provide valuable
  data for designing the waste out of your key
  business processes.

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Reliability Engineering Training Mentoring

• A key enabler of reliability-based asset
  management is the skill set possessed by your
  Reliability Engineering Grouptypically
  comprising Maintenance Planners/Schedulers,
  Maintenance Engineers, and Reliability Engineers.
  These roles in your organization have a major
  responsibility to
• Ensure that jobs are well planned and
  appropriately scheduled.
• Ensure that non-value-added tasks are minimized.
• Ensure a focus on continuous improvement.
• Leverage technology to improve asset reliability.
• Maintain a database of complete information to
  allow for making sound decisions.

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Reliability Engineering Training Mentoring

• Performance Associates can perform specialized
  maintenance engineering and reliability training
  for your personnel in the areas of
• Maintenance Planning
• Maintenance Scheduling
• Maintenance Engineering
• Reliability Engineering
• All training is supplemented with on-the-job
  mentoring to ensure that the newly learned
  techniques are put to work and their benefits are
  realized.

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Reliability-Centered Maintenance Analysis (RCMA)
and Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA)

• A key activity in the transition to a reliability
  based asset management strategy is performing
• Preventive Maintenance Optimization (PMO), and
• Predictive Maintenance Optimization (PdMO).
• Optimizing your PM and PdM program is no easy
  task, but it is made much easier by analyzing
  your plant assets and systems utilizing tools
  that include
• Reliability-Centered Maintenance Analysis
  (RCMA), and
• Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA).

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Reliability-Centered Maintenance Analysis (RCMA)
and Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA)

• RCMA is a rigorous analysis of critical plant
  systems performed in a manner that allows the
  analysis team to identify
• All system functions.
• Functional failures.
• Failure modes.
• Failure effects.
• Failure causes.
• Methods to mitigate potential failures.
• Default actions when there is no suitable
  maintenance task to mitigate a failure mode.
• RCMA considers interactions of the system with
  the process in which it functions, and it
  considers the interactions between subsystems and
  components within the system itself.

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Reliability-Centered Maintenance Analysis (RCMA)
and Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA)

• RCMA is both qualitative and quantitative, and
  when performed, utilizes a combination of
• Actual plant data
• Industry available data
• Actual experience of operations and maintenance
  personnel
• Management experience
• The knowledge base of third-party subject matter
  experts

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Reliability-Centered Maintenance Analysis (RCMA)
and Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA)

• Whereas an RCMA analyzes an entire system, and
  considers system interactions with the process,
  sub-systems, and components, FMEA analyzes only
  one asset or component at a time without regard
  to system interactions.
• FMEA is preferred over RCMA for
• Stand-alone assets that do not tie in with major
  processes.
• Assets not affected by upstream inputs and that
  do not affect downstream systems.
• In essence, RCMA is composed of many FMEA
  analyses, which have been modified to take into
  account system interactions.

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Reliability-Centered Maintenance Analysis (RCMA)
and Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA)

• Performance Associates can facilitate RCMA
  analysis sessions on your critical systems to
  assist you with the start of your PM optimization
  (PMO) and your PdM optimization (PdMO)
  initiative. The facilitation of one or more
  analyses serves as a training session for your
  maintenance and reliability engineering personnel
  that are unfamiliar with the RCMA process.
• Analyses are progressively taken over by your
  personnel while we continue to mentor them. As
  more RCMAs are performed, a library of analyses
  is accumulated that can be scaled to fit similar
  systems requiring analysis. This library of
  RCMAs saves valuable resource time on subsequent
  analyses by accelerating the process, and further
  accelerates your overall PMO and PdMO initiative.

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Reliability-Centered Maintenance Analysis (RCMA)
and Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA)

• Performance Associates can train your personnel
  in the application of FMEA by conducting several
  analyses with your Maintenance and Reliability
  Engineering personnel, followed by reviews of
  solo analyses performed by your personnel.
• As with RCMA, as more FMEAs re performed, you
  begin to accumulate a library of analyses that
  can be scaled to fit several applications, and
  serve as a starting point for other analyses,
  which saves valuable resource time. The process
  of FMEA development accelerates as your library
  grows.
• Your FMEA library also serves as source of base
  data that can be utilized in RCMA analyses, which
  again saves time and resources as you analyze
  more critical systems.

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Preventive Maintenance Optimization (PMO)

• Preventive Maintenance (PM) programs are one of
  the principle tools at the heart of successful
  maintenance management programs. However, much
  of your valuable resource time can be wasted when
  following a traditional time-directed PM service
  program.
• Your maintenance resources are more efficiently
  utilized, and the effectiveness of your
  maintenance personnel is increased, when your PM
  program is optimized to better monitor your asset
  health and mitigate potential failure modes.
• An optimized PM program performs only
  quantifiable and value-added tasks at the correct
  time intervals to help provide the desired asset
  reliability.

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Preventive Maintenance Optimization (PMO)

• The main tool that supports the optimization of
  your PM program is Reliability-Centered
  Maintenance Analysis (RCMA) and Failure Modes and
  Effects Analysis (FMEA). RCMA and FMEA support
  your PM optimization by enabling you to
• Eliminate non value-added PM tasks
• Identify appropriate PM tasks that will mitigate
  potential failure modes of your assets
• Eliminate those traditional time-directed
  intrusive tasks that cause more harm than good
• Identify which Predictive Maintenance (PdM)
  technologies can be utilized to monitor asset
  health (typically without having to shut down)
• Identify where a run-to-failure maintenance
  strategy is appropriate
• Identify where an engineering change may be
  required to mitigate certain failure modes

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Preventive Maintenance Optimization (PMO)

• Performance Associates can help launch your
  Preventive Maintenance Optimization (PMO) program
  by facilitating RCMA and FMEA sessions, while at
  the same time training your Maintenance and
  Reliability Engineering personnel in the process
  so that you can continue the process and utilize
  the analysis tools when required.
• Performance Associates can also jump-start your
  PMO initiative by auditing your current PM
  program and drawing upon our extensive experience
  in maintenance program development to quickly
  eliminate those activities that are not
  quantifiable, add no value, and are potentially
  harmful. This is not the end of the process, and
  RCMA and FMEA should be used to complete the PMO
  initiative.

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Predictive Maintenance Optimization (PdMO)

• Predictive Maintenance (PdM) programs are one of
  the principal tools at the heart of successful
  maintenance management programs. However, it is
  common to find many organizations missing the
  opportunity to leverage the benefits of PdM
  technologies while pursuing only traditional
  time-directed Preventive Maintenance (PM)
  programs.
• Maintenance resources are more efficiently
  utilized, and the effectiveness of maintenance
  personnel is increased, when the PM program is
  optimized by identifying where PdM technologies
  can be utilized to better monitor asset health
  and mitigate potential failure modes.
• Identifying opportunities to replace PM tasks
  with PdM technologies where appropriate is what
  Predictive Maintenance Optimization (PdMO) is
  centered on.

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Predictive Maintenance Optimization (PdMO)

• The main tool that supports the optimization of
  your PdM program is Reliability-Centered
  maintenance Analysis (RCMA) and Failure Modes and
  Effects Analysis (FMEA). RCMA and FMEA support
  your PdMO initiative by enabling you to
• Eliminate non-value-added PM tasks.
• Identify appropriate PM tasks that will mitigate
  potential failure modes of your assets.
• Eliminate those traditional time-directed
  intrusive tasks that cause more harm than good.
• Identify which Predictive Maintenance (PdM)
  technologies can be utilized to monitor asset
  health (typically without having to shut it
  down).
• Identify where a run-to-failure maintenance
  strategy is appropriate.
• Identify where an engineering change may be
  required to mitigate certain failure modes.

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Predictive Maintenance Optimization (PdMO)

• Performance Associates can help launch your PdMO
  program by facilitating RCMA and FMEA sessions,
  while at the same time training your maintenance
  and reliability engineering personnel in the
  process so that you can continue the process and
  utilize the analysis tools when required.
• We can also jump-start your PdMO initiative by
  auditing your current PM program and drawing upon
  our extensive experience in maintenance program
  development to quickly identify opportunities to
  utilize PdM technologies to replace those
  activities that are not quantifiable, add no
  value, and are potentially harmful.
• This is not the end of the process, and RCMA and
  FMEA should be used to complete the PdMO
  initiative.

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Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)

• Far too often we hear stories from maintenance
  departments recounting how they have performed
  the same repair for the third time this month or
  something similar.
• Many times the problem is explained away by
  thats the cost of doing business. This may
  indeed be business as usual for many, but it does
  not have to be.

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Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)

• In typical reactive maintenance environments
• We are forced to react to repeated emergencies,
  and
• To make the same repair again and again in the
  name of production.
• All the while we are also neglecting other
  important tasks that are due to be performed.
  When we have responded to our repeat emergencies,
  our continually neglected tasks eventually sneak
  up on us and become emergencies as well.
• Eventually the old emergencies and the new
  emergencies
• Force us to continue to react to repeated
  emergencies.
• Adversely affect overall plant reliability.
• Adversely affect Production capability.
• Most importantly, affect the cost of doing
  business.

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Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)

• Recurring problems can be eliminated by the
  utilization of Root Cause Failure Analysis
  (RCFA). RCFA finds the true source of the
  recurring problems and allows decisive steps to
  be taken to permanently eliminate them from your
  operation.
• Performance Associates can assist you in your
  efforts to permanently eliminate recurring
  problems from your operation by facilitating RCFA
  sessions with analysis teams made up of your
  personnel.
• At the same time we will be training maintenance
  and reliability engineering personnel in the
  process so that they can utilize this powerful
  tool continually to help attain asset reliability
  goals.

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Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)

• In addition to RCFA, the application of
  Reliability-Centered Maintenance Analysis (RCMA)
  and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
  provides valuable insight in to how to eliminate
  recurring problems in your operation.
• The results of RCMA and FMEA form an integral
  part of Preventive Maintenance Optimization (PMO)
  and Predictive Maintenance Optimization (PdMO).
  This effort optimizes the tasks needed to
  maintain asset health and mitigate potential
  failure modes. The results of RCFA also provide
  insight into the correct tasks to incorporate
  into your PMO and PdMO initiatives.

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CMMS Audit Configuration

• The most powerful tool that all maintenance
  personnel share is the Computerized Maintenance
  Management System (CMMS).
• A well-configured and implemented CMMS has the
  potential to put valuable information at the
  fingertips of everyone in an organization.
• The reality of the situation in many companies,
  however, is that the CMMS is poorly configured
  and implemented, resulting in a loss of some of
  the benefits of a CMMS. This is unfortunate,
  given the time and expense that was invested in
  the implementation. A poorly configured and
  implemented CMMS is a problem that can be
  remedied.

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CMMS Audit and Configuration

• Performance Associates can perform a thorough
  audit of your current CMMS configuration and
  assess the level of utilization by your personnel
  to determine if all potential benefits are being
  realized.
• The CMMS audit identifies any opportunities that
  may exist to better leverage the power of your
  CMMS. The audit provides a framework of
  understanding from which to develop a strategy to
  revitalize your CMMS and realize its full
  potential.

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CMMS Audit Configuration

• A well configured and implemented CMMS must be
  aligned with your Business Process Mapping and
  your Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Development.
  Many business processes involve transactions in
  your CMMS. However, a poorly configured CMMS may
  prevent you from executing your business
  processes in the desired way.
• Likewise, the data required for your KPIs may be
  difficult to obtain, especially when the data
  required is not being collected and maintained in
  your CMMS as it should be as a result of poor
  configuration. These are both common situations
  that force companies to design business processes
  around their CMMS configuration, and which force
  companies to measure their performance based on
  whatever data are available in their CMMS. Your
  business processes, and your ability to measure
  your performance must not be made a slave to your
  CMMS configuration, but rather your CMMS
  configuration must allow you to design optimized
  business processes and make the most meaningful
  and useful performance measurement.

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CMMS Audit and Configuration

• Performance Associates can also help on the
  ground floor for new CMMS installations as well.
  We can develop a strategy with you for your new
  CMMS implementation so that it is configured in a
  way that will support your business processes and
  performance measurements. We can also provide
  the same assistance if your company is migrating
  your CMMS and/or management software from one
  system to another.

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Business Process Mapping

• It is not uncommon for some people, when
  performing the same business process as their
  coworkers, to do so with greater efficiency and
  with better and repeatable results.
• If one person is capable of continually executing
  a business process better than his or her
  coworkers, that all the other coworkers should
  aim to emulate that individual. Such
  inconsistent performance can be witnessed in
  companies that do not have formalized business
  processes for typical tasks such as work request
  management, work backlog management, warehouse
  reservations/issues/kitting, planned and
  emergency purchasing, inventory stock addition
  request, and management of change.

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Business Process Mapping

• Performance Associates can assist in your efforts
  to accurately map and document your key business
  processes.
• We can facilitate process mapping sessions with
  development teams made up of individuals within
  your company having a role in the process being
  mapped. The formation of such teams brings to
  the session all the knowledge required to
  identify any waste in the way the process is
  currently performed and identify opportunities to
  reduce the time and effort in executing the
  process while ensuring the highest quality and
  repeatable results.
• While we facilitate one or more process mapping
  sessions we will be training your personnel in
  the process.

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Business Process Mapping

• The result of a process mapping is a detailed
  process flow chart accompanied by a text
  description of the process.
• Such processes become valuable tools for new
  employees, and serve as a reference to all
  employees if and when they have doubts about how
  a business process is to be executed. Well
  mapped and documented processes should become
  part of employee handbooks and manuals.
  Knowledge about how you wish to run your business
  and execute your business processes can have a
  significant impact on your CMMS configuration
  strategy. Such knowledge enables you to
  configure your CMMS in a manner that supports
  your business processes rather than having to
  configure your business process to work within
  the confines of your CMMS configuration.

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Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Development

• It is a basic tenet of business management that
  you can only manage what you can measure. Useful
  and meaningful measures to make good data-driven
  business decisions are required. It is for this
  reason that Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are
  required.
• Performance Associates can assist you with
  defining what KPI measurements provide the
  meaningful data you need to manage your business.
  Defining useful measures, however, is not
  enough. The ability to collect the data required
  to make KPI measurements must exist before any
  attempt to make such measurements can be made.
  Your Computerized Maintenance Management System
  (CMMS) must be properly configured to ensure that
  the data required to make your desired KPI
  measurements can be made from the data in your
  CMMS.

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Master Equipment List Development and Criticality
Ranking

• All your maintenance efforts are designed to care
  for the assets within your operation.
• All the assets that you must care for must exist
  as a master equipment record in your Computerized
  Maintenance Management System (CMMS) in order to
  be able to plan and schedule maintenance
  activities for those assets.
• The master equipment list should not only contain
  records for individual equipment items or
  systems, but it should contain records for
  repairable components for tracking repair
  histories, and it should contain records at the
  component and sub-system level of the equipment
  and systems respectively.
• Such granularity in the master equipment list
  hierarchy supports Key Performance Indicator
  (KPI) measurement capability by allowing you to
  analyze maintenance and reliability performance
  at various levels of your asset fleet.

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Master Equipment List Development Criticality
Ranking

• Performance Associates can assist you with
  defining what your master equipment list
  hierarchy should look like to support your
  maintenance management business process, and to
  support your KPI measurements.
• Whether your operation is new or established,
  whether you are implementing a CMMS for the first
  time or migrating to a new system, a proper
  master equipment list can be developed at any
  time.
• Once the required equipment hierarchy structure
  has been defined, all assets are walked down and
  all nameplate data are collected so that they can
  be included in the equipment master record. This
  activity includes a walk down of warehouse and
  lay-down areas where repairable spares may be
  stored. The physical walk down of your assets
  can be performed by your personnel or by
  Performance Associates Field Engineering
  personnel.

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Master Equipment List Development Criticality
Ranking

• The value of a well-developed master equipment
  list is increased when all the assets in the
  hierarchy are ranked based on criticality.
• This is accomplished by conducting criticality
  ranking sessions, at which time criticality
  values are applied to all assets in the master
  equipment list. The criticality values are
  determined for each asset by providing answers to
  weighted question pertaining to the asset and its
  potential affect on safety, the environment,
  maintenance, process, and product quality in the
  event of a functional failure.
• The ranking scale is very granular and typically
  ranks asset criticality on a scale from 100 to
  1,000 (which is far more granular than
  traditional 1,2,3/ABC/High, Medium, Low
  criticality ranking methods that are commonly
  used in a poorly configured CMMS). Such a
  granular criticality ranking of assets helps take
  the emotion and gut feel out of daily
  maintenance meetings when maintenance priorities
  are being set.

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Master Equipment List Development Criticality
Ranking

• A criticality-ranked asset register helps
  identify which systems and assets deserve
  rigorous analysis such as Reliability-Centered
  Maintenance Analysis (RCMA) and Failure Modes and
  Effects Analysis (FMEA), and helps determine
  which assets should be considered first for
  Preventive Maintenance Optimization (PMO) and
  Predictive Maintenance Optimization (PdMO).
• Performance Associates can assist you with
  establishing a criticality ranking criteria, and
  then help facilitate equipment criticality
  ranking sessions with your personnel.
• Criticality ranking sessions are made up of
  individuals who can accurately rate the affect of
  an asset failure on the aforementioned criteria
  categories.
• While we facilitate the criticality ranking
  session for the assets in one or more operational
  areas, we will be training your personnel in the
  process so that you can continue the ranking
  process until it is complete.

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Equipment Specific Maintenance Task Training

• It is common for trades personnel with good basic
  skills to lack knowledge of the specific
  equipment at any given plant.
• This can be especially true with newly hired
  experienced personnel that come from different
  industries or processes. These persons may have
  excellent core abilities, but they may lack the
  knowledge of how to apply that ability to
  properly maintain your assets.
• On-the-job training for new personnel only
  perpetuates undesirable practices when those
  providing the training also lack the specific
  knowledge of how to properly maintain your assets.

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Equipment Specific Maintenance Task Training

• Performance Associates can develop customized
  equipment specific maintenance task training
  programs to teach your skilled trades personnel
  the correct way to maintain your assets. These
  are specialized training programs that target the
  necessary maintenance requirements of your assets
  as they operate in the context of your operation.
  These are not generic programs that try to
  account for all possible scenarios.
• If the base abilities of your skilled trades
  personnel are in question, Performance Associates
  can perform a Trade Skills GAP Assessment to
  determine if basic skills training is required in
  addition to, or instead of, equipment specific
  maintenance task training.

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Change Management

• Making the move to a Reliability-Based Asset
  Management (RBAM) strategy is no small
  undertaking, especially if there is an existing
  reactive maintenance environment. The difficulty
  is multiplied if you became good at being
  reactive. The thought of an RBAM strategy makes
  those who have done well under the old ways
  skeptical and non-receptive to the new vision of
  maintenance management. The change management
  required to move your organization and its
  personnel down an RBAM path is quite likely the
  most difficult part of the entire process.
• Performance Associates can help you manage this
  important change by assisting you with
• Defining your vision of the future, and providing
  a detailed picture of what you wish your RBAM
  culture to look like when the journey is
  complete.
• Defining appropriate goals that support and
  enable the realization of your vision.
• Defining the initiatives required to make each
  goal a reality.
• Defining the activities needed, and the
  respective resources required, to execute each
  initiative.
• Defining on the measures that will be used to
  track progress ensure that all activities,
  initiatives, and goals remain aligned with the
  vision to ensure its realization.

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Change Management

• Performance Associates can continue to assist
  with your change management process until your
  RBAM vision is realized. We can provide a
  valuable outsiders perspective when gauging the
  progress and the success of your initiatives, and
  we can help prescribe corrective actions to get
  the process back on track should it start to
  deviate from the vision. The Reliability
  Maturity Audit is repeated at least once during
  the implementation of the RBAM initiative to
  gauge your progress by comparing the results of
  the more recent audit with the first one
  performed.

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Equipment Bill of Material (BOM) Development

• It is important that the assets in the
  Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)
  have an accurate and complete Bill of Material
  (BOM) record indicating what parts and materials
  required for maintenance and repair of the asset,
  and of those which are held in your warehouse
  inventory. Complete and accurate BOM data
  compliments your reliability initiatives by
  supporting maintenance planning and scheduling
  activities, purchasing activities, and
  warehousing activities.
• Performance Associates can provide assistance to
  create asset BOMs. This is not a task that
  necessarily must be undertaken for all of your
  assets. It is OK to have a BOM for all of your
  assets, but the focus should be on your more
  critical assets first in order to realize the
  benefits sooner. Determination of which assets
  are more critical than others can be accomplished
  with Master Equipment List Development
  Criticality Ranking.

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Warehouse Stock Optimization

• It is common to find that warehouse management
  modules of enterprise management systems are in
  the same state of disarray as the maintenance
  management module and the master equipment list
  in the asset directory.
• Poorly configured warehouse management systems
  can be filled with tens of thousands of records,
  most of which have little useful description to
  allow a system user to easily search for and find
  what they are looking for electronically.
• A warehouse management module needs to be
  configured utilizing a standard taxonomy, which
  is utilized without exception, to maintain
  warehouse records that can be easily searched by
  the end users that need what is in the warehouse.

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Warehouse Stock Optimization

• Performance Associates can assist you with
  developing a standard taxonomy to be used in your
  warehouse so that you can begin to utilize the
  full potential of your CMMS and other business
  management modules in your enterprise management
  system.
• Once a standard taxonomy is developed, we can
  assist you with scrubbing all your existing
  warehouse data and applying the new standard to
  all existing records.

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Warehouse Stock Optimization

• The process of scrubbing warehouse data reveals
  where there are duplicate stock items under
  numerous manufacturer part numbers.
• Scrubbing warehouse data makes it possible to
  safely begin to reduce inventory quantities, and
  thus reduce inventory value and associated
  carrying costs. A standardized taxonomy that
  contains all the features recognized by your
  vendors, suppliers, and manufacturers allows you
  to open up your warehouse and purchasing systems
  to e-commerce practices.

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Sustainability Audits

• The work of Performance Associates does not end
  with the development and initiation of your
  reliability-based asset management strategy.
  This is just the beginning of sustaining your new
  reliability initiative, and Performance
  Associates will be there to ensure that it
  succeeds.
• Sustainability visits and audits ensure that our
  combined hard work is being put to good use and
  that the program is delivering the expected
  results. Performance Associates can also
  continue to provide training and mentoring
  services as your reliability initiatives take
  hold and your strategy is deployed across your
  entire enterprise.
• The work or Performance Associates is considered
  complete only when the expected results of your
  reliability-based asset management strategy have
  been realized, and when reliability-based asset
  management is engrained across your enterprise as
  your new business as usual.

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