Maintenance of large assets is expensive. Best practice KPI for annual maintenance cost is 2% of Replacement Asset Value (RAV), and in most cases the cost is higher.
The challenge is to create a low cost maintenance plan that focuses on the right equipment, and applies the correct strategy (predictive maintenance, inspections, preventive maintenance and/or spare parts) in order to boost performance.
BQR’s apmOptimizer is a decision support system that can compare the expected performance of various scenarios, and automatically optimize the maintenance plan for each scenario.
Benefits
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Improve asset performance while reducing maintenance cost!
Steps for conducting Performance Centered Maintenance analysis
Import (optional)
- Import the block tree, components and failure modes from BQR’s FMECA using BQR’s Core Database
- Alternately, data can be imported from CSV files
User Input
- Define project data such as: Life-Cycle period and operation profiles
- Define the reliability model, repair and replace policy for each block
- Define logistics options for the asset including: spare stocks, OEMs, shops, and transportation routes
- Define costs of inspections, maintenance actions, and downtime
- Define resources required for each inspection and maintenance task (optional)
- Define additional scenarios in order to compare cost and availability
Analysis
- The software validates the user data. If data is missing, user is notified
- Software optimization modules optimize the repair / replace policy, spare part stocks and quantities, inspections and preventive maintenance schedules
- Software calculates the expected asset behavior and Life-Cycle Cost (LCC). Additionally, identify key failure and cost drivers
- Compare results of different scenarios
Reports
- Detailed reliability and availability parameters for each block
- Detailed maintenance and logistics policies
- Trade-Off: comparison between scenarios
- All reports can be saved as Excel, HTML or Word files
Features
- Flexible asset behavior model
- Part libraries
- Import tree from Excel or BQR CARE
- Fast analytic calculations
- Search and Sort functions
- Notify user if project data is incomplete or inconsistent
- Detailed help and wizard for beginners and advanced users