Maintenance
Maintenance provides technical support to the Operations Department to ensure that the equipment needed is always available. This can refer to existing installations or the development of a new installation. In both cases, Maintenance must keep a maintain an overview of the costs of development and maintenance.
Maintenance is also responsible for remedying malfunctions and regularly evaluating the existing maintenance processes to see where improvements are possible.
Maintenance develops appropriate preventative / predictive programs, spare part recommendations, equipment performance and failure evaluations, quality procedures and evaluation of technical specifications of new and revised equipment.
The primary task of Maintenance is ensuring that maintenance activities are not repeat activities.
Tasks which fall under Maintenance:
- Giving advice on non-standard repairs and replacement of equipment;
- Setting up and adjusting policies with regard to spare parts, change-projects and lifetime extension projects;
- Taking initiatives to improve the technical installations in the plant;
- Optimising the content and frequency of preventative / predictive maintenance work on the basis of analyses (RCM, FMECA);
- Providing technical input for modifications and newbuild installations;
- Taking care of analyses and solutions to daily problems or issues of a specialised nature;
- Initiating projects for replacing or modifying equipment. In doing so, taking care of preparing, and applying for, capital / expense budget;
- Setting up and periodically reviewing work instructions and procedures;
- Condition monitoring and analysis of equipment in his field.
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Maintenance functions
