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Émilie D’Aramitz · (This post was last modified: 04-10-2020, 08:29 AM by Émilie D’Aramitz.)

A Guide To Trade Lanes in Gallia

Subject: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Attention: ADMINISTRATION

Engineer: Émilie D’Aramitz - EFL|Aventureux

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

BEGIN REPORT L705 : Part 03

In pursuit of some of the most exciting science of our time, the EFL| Oil & Machinery has pushed the boundaries of technology and the scale of developments to new extremes. A brief report of the key construction aspects of EFL oil and Machinery's trade lane links.

Further information regarding the construction of EFL Oil and Machinery lane links will follow in subsequent reports

LANE MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES

In the past, EFL Oil and Machinery commonly used a Preventive Maintenance (PM) program, which was based on the underlying assumptions of maintenance theory has always been that there is a fundamental cause-and-effect relationship between scheduled maintenance and operating reliability. This assumption was based on the intuitive belief that because mechanical parts wear out, the reliability of any equipment is directly related to operating age. It therefore followed that the more frequently equipment was overhauled, the better protected it was against the likelihood of failure. It is assumed that failure probabilities can be determined statistically for individual links and components, and that replacing parts or performing adjustments in time can often prevent failure. Maintenance and operations, failure and reliability data being reported highlighted problems with this approach. Due to the highlighted problems, EFL Oil and Machinery have since adopted a reliability-centered maintenance approach.

Maintenance is required to increase the probability that a machine or component will function in the required manner over its design life-cycle with a minimum amount of downtime. The strategies EFL Oil and Machinery have in place, rather than being applied independently, are optimally integrated to take advantage of their respective strengths, and maximize facility and equipment reliability while minimizing life-cycle costs. The goal of this approach is to reduce the Life-Cycle Cost of each link to a minimum while continuing to allow each link to function as intended with required reliability. Maintenance decisions are to be supported by technical and economic justification. This approach also considers the consequence of failure of a given component. Maintenance analysis carefully considers the following questions - while the answers are usually fairly straight forward for link repairs, often highlighting them as high priority, this is often utilized across all of EFL Oil and Machinery's maintenance tasks:

What does the system or equipment do
What are its functions?
What functional failures are likely to occur?
What are the likely consequences of these functional failures?
What can be done to reduce the probability of the failure, identify the onset of failure, or reduce the consequences of the failure?

Some benefits of having this combined system that is utilized by EFL Oil and Machinery include safety, security, cost, reliability, scheduling, and efficiency. These are explained in more depth below.

Safety - The safety policy of EFL Oil and Machinery is to avoid loss of life, personal injury, illness, property loss, property damage, and environmental harm, and to ensure safe and healthful conditions for persons working at or utilizing or visiting EFL Oil and Machinery facilities. By ensuring link maintenance is completed as required, risk of critical failure causing damage, or loss of life is reduced considerably.

Security - Inside each blue pack is an anti-tampering, explosive device designed to destroy the contents if there is an attempt to open without proper DNA or fingerprint recognition. Blue Packs are equipped with dual password locks requiring input from two employees, the Chief of Security for receiving location and the EFL Oil and Machinery technician overseeing delivery, as well as an internal tracking beacon.

Cost - Due to the initial investment required for obtaining the technological tools, training, and equipment condition baselines, this maintenance Program typically results in an increase in maintenance costs. This increase is relatively short-lived, averaging two to three years. The cost of repair decreases as failures are prevented and preventive maintenance tasks are replaced by condition monitoring. The net effect is a reduction of both repair and total maintenance costs.

Reliability - This program places great emphasis on improving equipment reliability through the feedback of maintenance experience and equipment condition data to planners, designers, maintenance managers, and manufacturers. This information is instrumental for continually upgrading the equipment specifications for increased reliability. The increased reliability that comes from this maintenance program leads to fewer equipment failures, greater availability for maintenance support, and lower maintenance costs.

Scheduling - The ability of a condition-monitoring program to forecast maintenance provides time for planning, obtaining replacement parts, and arranging environmental and operating conditions before the maintenance is done. A principal advantage is that it obtains the maximum use from all components and subsequently each link. Component replacement is based on actual equipment condition rather than a predetermined, generic length of life.

Efficiency/Productivity - Safety is the primary concern. The secondary concern of is cost-effectiveness. Cost-effectiveness takes into consideration the priority of the repairs and then matches a level of cost appropriate to that priority. The flexibility of the programs approach to maintenance ensures that the proper type of maintenance is performed on equipment when it is needed. Existing maintenance that is not cost-effective is identified and not performed.

Report completed by: Émilie D’Aramitz

Additional notes: N/A

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