Asset Life Cycle Management
Reliability Consulting and Solutions
Background and Methodology
In today’s operating and production environment, plants and equipment must perform at levels that were not thought possible some years ago. Expectations towards increased safety, product quality, availability, throughput and agility to meet challenging governmental, business and social requirements elevate the speed and pressure on manufacturers to manage their assets effectively.
The necessity to maintain – and often increase – operational effectiveness while simultaneously reducing capital and operating expenditures is the challenge manufacturing enterprises are currently facing. To overcome this contradiction a signifi cant change from past culture, processes, management and organizational concepts is mandatory and has to be carefully balanced.
The advanced and continuously reinvented approach for Asset Life Cycle Management by Bayer is a comprehensive, fully integrated process, directed towards gaining greatest lifetime effectiveness, value and profi tability from production and manufacturing assets. Our Asset Life Cycle Management assures systematic implementation of processes, practices and technical improvements to ascertain sustained compliance with Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality (HSEQ) targets as well as availability and performance targets at lowest possible cost under consideration of current and future operating and business requirements.
Our Asset Life Cycle Management builds from current strengths of plant operation and maintenance to gain Best-In-Class effectiveness. The implementation of standards and processes results in a subsequent continuous improvement to steadily enhance plant performance even further.
- Bayer Technology Services Asset Life Cycle Management
The Bayer Technology Services Approach
Our Asset Life Cycle Management is a proactive and comprehensive approach which covers the entire life span of an asset from commencing during the early engineering phases until final decommissioning.
The main elements of the Bayer Technology Services Asset Life Cycle Management are:
- Reliability Centered Design (RCD) which assures that reliability and maintenance issues are addressed appropriately already during early engineering phases;
- Asset Maintenance Management Process, an integrated, risk-based loop process, ensuring that predefi ned availability, reliability, and maintainability targets are met without jeopardizing any HSEQ or commercial targets;
- Reliability, Availability & Maintainability (RAM) Assessment, addressing RAM topics at any point in time of the asset life cycle
- Risk Based Inspection focused on the risk-based optimization of the inspection scope;
- Life Cycle Length & Cost (LLC) Analysis, oriented towards determination how medium to long term targets can be met under consideration of RAM issues coming up as part of the aging process of facilities.
- Asset Maintenance Management Process
Asset Maintenance Management Process
Bayer Technology Services has developed the proprietary risk-based Asset Maintenance Management Process, built upon the operating experience of the Bayer Group.
This process comprises a comprehensive optimization of maintenance and reliability at any point of operation utilizing state-of-the-art methodologies, techniques and tools like:
- Risk Management
- Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
- Failure Modes and Effects Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
- Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)
- Condition Monitoring (CM)
- Bottom-Up Budgeting
- BayOpX® – Our Operational Excellence Approach
Bayer Technology Services – The Asset Life Cycle Management Experts
Our Asset Life Cycle Management approach and its associated elements and processes have proven its excellence and usability for years in the day-to-day operation inside the Bayer Group. We have assisted during the implementation of respective processes in the form of an owner/operator. Therefore, an intensive know-how and experience exchange between the operating units and Bayer Technology Services as service provider and knowledge manager is part of our continuous improvement process. This hands-on operator experience brings us in the unique position to provide first class front line support to our customers, helping them to achieve world class performance. The wide range of experience of Bayer Technology Services is at our customers’ disposal. In conjunction with BayOpX® – our Operational Excellence approach – our customers obtain access to our full portfolio of services targeting optimum plant reliability and efficiency. As a result of our continuous work as project consultants in close cooperation with plant personnel in production facilities, our knowhow is transferred in both directions, from development to practice and from practice to development. Our consultants have a high level of experience with methods and tools applied and utilized in our Operational Excellence approach.
References
Our customers profit from our broad product range based on the wideranging expertise of a global player. Our global experience includes:
- Global improvement programs in the Bayer Group
- Numerous Turnaround Management projects
- 60+ Risk Based Inspection projects
- 50+ years of materials and corrosion consulting
We implement a culture of efficiency. Let us discuss how we may team up with your organization for optimal results and profitability of your company.
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