Tailored coal plant maintenance programme boosts equipment availability

SKF’s Integrated Equipment Reliability programme for coal plants is based on a best practice predictive maintenance strategy, which can complement and accommodate a plant’s pre-existing programmes and systems. IER can also incorporate Operator Driven Reliability processes and technology for early detection and correction of machine problems, improving uptime still further.

The Integrated Equipment Reliability programme makes 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 most efficiently and cost effectively. IER can also help analyse personnel safety hazards in line with the latest Health & Safety regulations, and highlight environmental risks, ensuring the plant operates safely, legally and responsibly.

As part of the Integrated Equipment Reliability programme, SKF provides the software to allow managers and maintenance engineers to input vital 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 useful data needed for efficient work planning and scheduling.

SKF’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 an extensive 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 availability is maintained.