Turning Data into “Reliability Information”
Thermographers spend countless hours capturing thermal images, analyzing thermal images, creating and producing reports, tracing results of work completed and communicating. Translating the benefits of thermography across all areas of the organization will instill “buy-in” across functional departments. The explanation of program effectiveness and how it contributes to improved business performance and bottom line results will become the “Wow” factor.
Defining the Master Equipment List
An accurate Master Equipment List (MEL), describing all physical equipment and their functions, will become the cornerstone for developing a sound Reliability program and streamlining daily maintenance processes.
The completed MEL will:
- Aid in critical decisions and strategies, facilitate correct cost roll-ups in the EAM/CMMS or ERP software, and improve the usefulness of historical maintenance data.
- Introduce efficiencies into the daily planning activities and speed the maintenance strategy and Bill of Material (BOM) development effort by making it easy to locate equipment and to identify duplicate or similar equipment.
- Provide the ability to easily identify all of the in-service equipment a spare part can be used on when couple with BOMs. This crucial information will allow for informed decisions when establishing spare part stocking levels or removing unnecessary parts from inventory.
- Assist the maintenance department planners and technicians in establishing standardized procedures to be used in maintaining equipment. Because duplicate and similar equipment can be identified, procedures can be copied to all applicable equipment. The copied procedures are then useable with only minor changes needed to meet specific equipment requirements.
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