Plant & Works Engineering November 2022

Focus on: Preventative Maintenance Maintenance Matters practices, maximising an organisation’s Return on Investment (ROI). During the ‘Optimise’ phase, CMMS consultants review and align routines for optimal maintenance scheduling, they assess and redefine job specifications to optimise maintenance task lists and adjust organisation maintenance practices and procedures to preserve compliance while achieving maximum flexibility for operations. Maintain The ‘Maintain’ phase applies services to ensure that the CMMS remains optimised, as organisations naturally change and evolve. This phase of the optimisation service model involves scheduled performance audits of the CMMS software and maintenance programme initiatives to ensure best practices are maintained and embedded within the organisation. Remote optimisation services can be enabled to allow consultants or engineers access to the CMMS to perform optimisation services and to assist with data and reliability analysis. CMMS Continuous Improvement While the above four-phase service model is best applied sequentially, it can also be tailored depending on what stage an organisation is within the CMMS Asset Lifecycle. As organisations change and implement new assets, processes and practices within their maintenance programmes, they should continually assess the maturity of their CMMS and maintenance improvement programmes. Depending on an organisation’s specific level of CMMS maturity and user adoption, slight optimisation service interventions might be required to maintain best practices for example, a mature organisation may simply require periodic CMMS performance audits that enable it to measure (and perhaps redefine) its maintenance optimisation objectives and KPIs. Figure 3 illustrates a CMMS maturity model with a continuous feedback loop that organisations can adopt with optimisation services to maximise the value of their CMMS software investment. Fig 3: CMMS Maturity Model A one-day steam boiler operator course, accredited by globally-recognised City & Guilds, covers steam principles, regula琀ons and standards with an emphasis on the principles of opera琀on, safety and test equipment. It is assessed theore琀cally using a mul琀ple choice ques琀on paper and prac琀cally with a wri琀en observa琀on test. BOILER MAINTENANCE OPERATOR TRAINING Our water treatment training (ref. BG04) covers the need for and methods of pre-treatment, equipment calibra琀on and tes琀ng, TDS control and blowdown and the safety and monitoring of the system. It also covers ways of iden琀fying poor water condi琀ons and the effect of these on boiler efficiency, longevity and overall system protec琀on. WATER TREATMENT For further informa琀on on Fulton’s industry-recognised, affordable and prac琀cal training courses that bridge the gap between straigh琀orward ‘toolbox’ training and expensive courses cos琀ng thousands per employee, visit www.fulton.co.uk , email training@fulton.co.uk or call +44 (0)117 972 3322 . ARE YOUR BOILER OPERATORS COMPETENT? Improving life through heat transfer solu琀ons Our boiler maintenance training course is BG01R2- and INDG436-compliant and covers basic fault finding and rou琀ne maintenance in regard to manufacturers guidelines and prac琀cal ‘hands on’ training specific to your own equipment on site.