Asset Integrity & Management
McLatchey Mechanical Engineers is an industry experienced company with expertise in the establishment and maintenance of systems and processes to facilitate the management of assets of all sizes, ensuring their integrity and cost effective operations and maintenance.
McLatchey Mechanical Engineers has significant experience in establishing asset registers, work management systems, inventory systems, and many other asset specific systems to enable the effective management and reporting for internal use and for evidence of compliance to statutory obligations of the owning business.
McLatchey Mechanical Engineers staff are experienced professionals in regulated industries and understand the obligations that asset owners are bound too and their requirement to demonstrate compliance with these. However more than just compliance, McLatchey Mechanical Engineers aims to assist businesses improve their performance through better systems; efficient storage, transfer and reporting of information; optimising operation and maintenance practices to cost effectively meet reliability and availability targets.
Asset Strategy Documentation
Condition Monitoring systems
Condition monitoring of assets is an effective way of eliminating unnecessary maintenance activity and maximising the life of an asset with a positive effect on the target reliability, availability and life cycle cost of the asset. MME is able to set up condition monitoring systems and provide technical support in the interpretation of results such as oil and vibration analysis. A condition monitoring program may involve numerous technologies and can be applied to virtually all assets. The application of condition monitoring may vary according to the impact of asset failure on production and secondary/consequential damage and effects.
Setup of condition monitoring systems and ability to provide technical interpretation of testing results.
Analysis of the CMMS data will identify areas of plant that would benefit from more specialised maintenance methods such as condition monitoring. As these are identified and justified a condition monitoring program will be recommended and implemented as permitted.
- Vibration analysis
- Oil analysis
- thermography
Proactive Maintenance
1. Shaft/Coupling Alignment
2. Static / Dynamic Balancing
3. Oil Cleanliness
Maintenance routines
1. OEM
2. Verify
3. Defining Maintenance routines
Spares Management
Ability to setup inventory systems and optimise inventory holdings in order to support the asset usage.
Reviews will be conducted with maintenance representatives to identify the spares holdings that are required to support routine and breakdown maintenance. A means of capturing parts usage on jobs will be created to build up a spare parts list for each asset so as to have bills of materials available when the inventory modules of the CMMS are utilised. As the maintenance program matures this information will progressive be able to be refined.
- Development of a spare parts catalogue which has been loaded into SAP.
- Setup of a warehouse and identified spare parts storage locations which have been loaded into SAP.
- Created bills of materials to simplify the searching for spare parts.
Spares optimization
Special tools
In addition to the above review will be the review of special tools that are required. Once these are identified and purchased these tools will need a system by which they can be booked out for jobs and kept securely in-between times.
In addition to the above review will be the review of special tools. Once these are identified and purchased these tools will need a system by which they can be booked out for jobs and kept securely in-between times.
Planning and scheduling
- Establish planning and scheduling processes to compliment the new CMMS that had recently been rolled out.
Statutory inspections
MME staff are experienced professionals in regulated industries and understand the obligations that asset owners are bound too and their requirement to demonstrate compliance with these. However more than just compliance, MME aims to improve the performance of business through better systems; efficient storage, transfer and reporting of information; optimising operation and maintenance practices to cost effectively meet reliability and availability targets.
Experience has shown that the list of pressure equipment maintained by QGC is not exhaustive and therefore the coordinators need to be able to inspect the facilities to ensure all pressure equipment is identified. Having identified all equipment, the associated drawings need to be marked up and submitted for approval.
Asset identification
The equipment list was the first item that was addressed as all other documentation that was to be developed was linked to the equipment list, which is the virtual representation of the physical asset
- Creation of the equipment list which was loaded into SAP and has formed the backbone of the work management system. This list needed codes and descriptions corrected.
- Coding
- Description
Document control
Document management is critical to the safe and efficient operation of a business. MME is committed to supporting businesses through compliance with document management systems and provides assistance with setting up these systems and providing third party audits from a technical perspective.
