Asset Management

Maintenance Systems Solutions (MSS) is a specialised Maintenance Management and Consulting organisation, supplying CMMS, reliability and planning support services.

Asset Management Services, a division of Maintenance Systems Solutions (MSS) is a locally owned boutique consultancy providing a holistic one stop Asset Management solution for our clients.

MSS Asset Management Services partner with clients to achieve exceptional business results. We are flexible, efficient, and customer focused, and our clients appreciate our added value.

Projects are undertaken for clients within the manufacturing, resource, utilities, oil and gas sectors.

Service Offer

As competitive manufacturing advantages become increasingly important for future success, the importance of the Asset Management function cannot be overlooked.

Our approach to Asset Management is based on a proven framework and the fundamentals of this support sound decision making processes which ensure overall asset reliability and availability. These include:

• Business Process Mapping for Equipment Reliability and Availability
• Asset Hierarchy Development and Review
• Asset Maintenance Strategy Development – Implementation and Facilitation

Additional Services can be provided in:

• Maintenance Consulting and Technical Support
• Asset Management and Reliability Engineering
• Benchmarking
• Life Cycle Costing
• Root Cause Analysis
• Defect Elimination
• Data Loading
• Master Data Integration
• Asset Management and CMMS Training
• Project Management

Offering our valued Clients a Competitive Advantage

MSS Asset Management Services specialise in the efficient and cost effective implementation of Asset Management Strategy Development (AMSD) programs and have developed a structured and streamlined approach to ensure maximum Return on Investment for our clients. 

The MSS Service offer is further enhanced through a comprehensive generic Failure Mode and Effects (FMEA) library. This offers clients significant cost benefits in both time and cost savings by reducing the overall ASDM development phase with no reduction in program effectiveness.

MSS Asset Maintenance Strategy Implementation Approach

The MSS Asset Maintenance Strategy Implementation approach is based on a six step process as follows:

This is further refined into sub processes as follows:

Typical MSS Asset Management Project Objectives

• To identify and record asset criticalities based on operational, maintainable, safety and environmental factors.
• To review and develop a comprehensive set of operational requirements, asset maintenance strategies, plans and all documentation.
• To group all asset maintenance strategies in logical and effective work packages.
• To implement all maintenance strategies, plans and documentation into the clients CMMS system. Effectively plan and schedule new routines as required.
• To identify and review warehousing requirements for key maintenance spares based on equipment criticalities and PM strategies.

Typical MSS Asset Management Project Deliverables

• A core asset maintenance strategy improvement team capable of performing an asset management improvement project.
  • RCM Process Training
  • Use of asset maintenance strategy development tools and processes
• A clear understanding, documentation and implementation of all productive assets inclusive of:
  • Criticalities
  • Functions and performance requirements
  • Failure modes, effects and root causes
  • Consequences and risk of failure
  • Asset maintenance strategies, tasks, resource requirements and associated documentation
  • Critical spares and associated management strategies
• The enabling of both operations and maintenance personnel in understanding the requirements and benefits of asset maintenance strategy development.
• A continuous improvement process aimed at ensuring equipment strategies and plans are reviewed and updated in a controlled manner.

Benefits (dependant on project scope)

• An understanding of maintenance strategy process development and the corresponding impact on asset reliability and availability.
• The creation of an electronic blue print of optimum routine maintenance strategies.
• A reduction in reactive maintenance work and subsequent reduction in maintenance costs.
• The elimination of non-value adding maintenance activities.
• Identification of failures caused by poor design or maintenance practices.
• Reduction of secondary plant and equipment damage.
• Improved Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
• An increased understanding of plant and equipment operational context, leading to cross functional knowledge transfer.
• An understanding of the relationship and limits between plant and equipment operating and maintenance requirements.
• An understanding of activities required to keep plant and equipment reliable and available.
• Detailed standardised routine plans developed to ensure efficient and effective equipment maintenance.
• Development of process based KPI reliability metrics.
• Foundation for future development.
• Quantitative benefits are generally not fully realised until a routine maintenance cycle has been completed.

MSS Asset Maintenance Strategy Development Software

As part of its service offer MSS is able provide asset maintenance strategy development software solutions to clients that engage MSS Asset Management Services for project implementation. The software offer includes the following solutions:

• Asset Criticality Assessment
  Improving asset management and reliability requires determining the criticality of assets and asset groups. A formal criticality analysis helps you prioritize work effectively, manage risk appropriately, and base reliability improvements on objective data.
• Asset Maintenance Strategy and Optimisation
  A unique (Maintenance Plan Development System), which is a not only a structured and easily deployable approach to asset maintenance strategy development but also optimises frequencies, allows workflow smoothing, groups for workflow optimisation and is built on extensive failure mode libraries.
• Failure Analysis Cloning Technology (FACT)
  Factors that drive the maintenance requirements of any physical operating asset are primarily centred on its design, the environment and context in which it operates. MSS have developed a system called FACT to manage these variances.
  FACT is a systematic process for analysing maintenance tasks for similar assets working in different environments, by creating a foundation strategy on the different design permutations and applying this failure data to these similar assets. This feature enables a massive reduction in the time taken for companies to deploy asset maintenance strategies that pertain to all equipment in the asset register.
• Work Instruction Creation System
  An automated systematic approach for the development of PM work instructions into a client specific PM template format, significantly reducing the time over traditional manual creation of these documents.

Contact

Maintenance Systems Solutions Head Office
23 Burgess Way, Port Sorell
PO Box 257
Port Sorell, TAS 7307
Australia

phone: +61 1300 856 772
fax: +61 1300 780 286
e-mail: reliability@msspltd.com.au