Periodic Inspections Optimizer
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PIO module assists management professionals in decision making based on their field equipment condition rather than fixing equipment when failure occurs, basing maintenance on a set calendar or usage-based schedule. Since system or equipment degradation is hidden, data can only be gathered through equipment monitoring devices or with inspection-scheduled activities.
If damage because of failures is significant, the inspections should be frequent enough to detect critical degradation before the actual failure and damage will occur.
PIO module provides the optimal inspection intervals to provide the required system availability with minimum maintenance cost. Maintenance cost may include inspection cost, restoration cost, down time cost, damage cost etc.
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Key benefits of the PIO module:
- Fixes equipment only when needed
- Increase up times
- Avoids unplanned downtime
- Increases productivity and profitability
- Keeps equipment in top working condition
- Reduces maintenance cost
- Provides optimal combinations of different inspections tasks
- Recommends inspection schedule for the failures not evident and not detected immediately with built-in tests (hidden failures). Such failures may be classified in two types: gradual and sudden.
- PIO module allows the user to specify the tasks of inspections performed to check the state of a lowest component (a leaf of the project tree) and to detect its failure, if it occurs. The user can also define tasks on higher levels of the project tree – assemblies, sub systems, system supporting inspection tasks for all their sub blocks.
- Those tasks may present access, disassembly, assembly, testing and other operations necessary for leaves inspections. All inspection and support tasks are assumed to be performed on operation site and require certain resources – personnel, assembly and measurement tools, materials, utility, sometimes - facility. The cost of such resources may be specified for each operation site and used for optimization.
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