Benefits of Systems

The challenge of increasing plant availability safely and ecologically whilst reducing costs, requires smarter techniques, higher skill levels and all-round improved performance. The key is the effective management of equipment, resources, and purchases throughout their entire lifecycle with safety as a priority.

If your team is involved in managing safety, reducing downtime, increasing reliability, optimizing inventory, tracking and servicing assets and monitoring expenditure and if your current system needs an update to a high performance system that you can rely upon, its worth carrying out an investigation into the Q4 system. The system helps by assisting in the development of a maintenance strategy as well as offering practical day to day functions involved in maintenance and safety departments.

A few of the Q4 techniques adopted:

Dealing with safety issues first. Q4 PERMIT provides a methodical approach to assess hazard and risks of work tasks. The system also fully supports the creation and control of permits and isolation certificates.

Decreasing downtime and optimising plant spares using risk based spares analysis and forecasting are among the benefits to be obtained by using the Q4 CMMS processes.

Integration of condition systems, aids identification of plant problems before total failure. This can provide substantial savings by reducing plant repair costs.

The Q4 CMMS Historian assists in highlighting recurring defects or excessive maintenance thus providing the opportunity to engineer out the problem.

For strategic systems, Q4 RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) offers an approach that can be used to assist in analyzing potential failures, effects and elevating maintenance strategy.

In general the Q4 CMMS management system assists by tracking equipment performance, monitoring staff performance, improving skills through access to a good knowledge base and by facilitating audits of work quality.

Adjacent are some more Q4 CMMS features and possesses that can help in productivity drives. In summary it's all about improving the strategy, effectiveness and personnel productivity ... the way forward is managing change to improve both the business goals and individual needs.

Benefits

1. SAFETY
• Risk & task assessment
• Coordinated safety
• Routing, Roles & Rule Control
• Risk Assessment
• Permit & Certificate Control
• Aided Isolation Management
• Document Lifecycle Control
• Work System Integration
• Document Integration
• Graphical Permit Tracking
• Shutdown Permit Planning
• Audit Management

1. DEFECTS
• Fault consequence & cause analysis
• Fast job reporting and tracking
• On job information support

1. WORK PLANNING
• Production outage synchronization
• Critical path planning
• Synchronized work flow
• Automatic work scheduling
• Work packaging & control
• Resource balancing

1. INVENTORY
• Spares & material forecasting
• Spares risk based analysis
• Automated purchasing
• Efficient acquisition purchase control
• Supplier & contract vetting
• Contract performance

1. COST
• Equipment tracking & cost roll-ups
• Expenditure tracking & forecasting
• Budget allocation & control

1. SUPPORT
• Better decision analysis
• Hierarchical system dependencies
• Document & drawing management
• Verification & audit