Equipment programme meets needs of coal plants

SKF has developed the Integrated Equipment Reliability (IER) programme, which is specifically tailored to the needs of coal plants.

The IER programme provides a flexible framework that allows maintenance to be planned and carried out more efficiently, reducing costs and increasing the availability and safety of equipment.

The programme is based on a best-practice predictive maintenance strategy, which can complement and accommodate a coal plant's pre-existing programmes and systems.

IER can also incorporate Operator Driven Reliability processes and technology for the early detection and correction of machine problems, further improving uptime.

The IER programme is claimed to make it easy to define which maintenance tasks need to be carried out on which machines and when.

With limited plant resources, this allows work to be carried out efficiently and cost effectively.

IER can also help analyse personnel safety hazards in line with the latest health-and-safety regulations and can highlight environmental risks, ensuring that plants operate safely, legally and responsibly.

As part of the programme, SKF provides the software to allow managers and maintenance engineers to input information such as tasks, frequencies and job plans into the plant's central systems.

Optionally, the software can be used to produce bills of materials, spare lists and other data needed for efficient work planning and scheduling.

The company's @ptitude Decision Support System can be used to optimise the effectiveness of the IER programme.

The system can be completely configured to the requirements of a plant, providing a library of equipment knowledge models to provide 'smart filtering' of the data used to diagnose equipment health.

@ptitude provides staff with the ability to determine the condition of critical equipment quickly and accurately and take the necessary action to ensure that availability is maintained, according to SKF.

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