Asset reliability and availability

The reliability and availability of your assets are of major importance to you and to your clients

Businesses set short and long-term ambitions in corporate strategies that relate to loss reduction, production and load growth, administration/infrastructure, and reliability.

KEMA knows the demands from the market and the needs of suppliers to leverage production, transmission and distribution and demand. Therefore we perform assessments of the existing reliability and maintenance practices within markets and businesses, identifying a desired future state based on best-in-class benchmarking, and presenting a practical roadmap so that one can effectively transition from the present state to the initial state. The reliability and availability of your assets are of major importance to you and to your clients. Reducing costs and staying in control become increasingly important in our dynamic industrial climate. You need peace of mind to stay in control in a technical complex and economic dynamic environment.

 

Hardware failures are typically characterized by a bath tub curve and related to reliability. The failure rate during the rated useful life of the product is fairly low. Once the end of the life is reached, failure rate of modules increases again. Failures during a plants or components life can be attributed to the following causes:

• design failures

• infant mortality

• random failures

• wear out.

Availability is the percentage of time when plant is in operation and is typically specified in nines notation. In ones mind downtime per year is a more intuitive way of understanding the availability.

 

Learn more about how we can support you to best-in-class and still remain in control of costs.