Exposure and experience gained within two global business icons, demonstrating an ability to quickly adapt to differing marketing environments, providing thought input and pro-active solutions within performance driven roles.
Critical equipment is any piece of equipment which, if its function failed, would compromise regulatory requirements or the ability to keep the property safe, stop production, or negatively impact quality. A piece of equipment is not usually considered âcriticalâ if redundancy is available. If an extended outage is encountered this may be cause for reassessments & revisions to the Critical Equipment List. Critical equipment process and equipment selection follows the Maintenance Process. The record to document the rationale or calculation to determine whether an asset is âcriticalâ is the Asset Criticality Calculation Record Sheet IDENTIFYING CRITICAL EQUIPMENT
improving or maintaining availability of critical equipment. The strategy presented here incorporates cost effective maintenance management, fault and failure modes, parts and auxiliariesâ criticality, and information management on the critical machine/equipment. The results of this study will be significant to manufacturing firms in minimizing incident stoppages not only on critical equipment but production facilities. (Keywords: maintenance, strategy, industry, management, critical equipment) INTRODUCTION