Strategic context

Maintenance management on installations is a topic that is enjoying increasing amounts of attention. Businesses wish to obtain real insight into the costs and risks involved in relation to the performance of the installation, and management wants to make well-considered choices when it comes to bringing the cost level and associated performance in line with the business goals and strategy.

Specialised software is required to map out the relationships between the failure behaviour of an installation, the maintenance activities carried out, the resulting performance and the associated costs as well as to carry out simulations and calculations for alternative maintenance concepts. Optimizer+ enables you to weigh these factors against each other in a responsible and well-considered fashion.

The most important benefits provided by Optimizer+ can be summarised as follows:

• Defining business goals such as safety, reliability, environmental impact, cost etc. and carrying out a criticality analysis on the basis of these goals. With the help of the Quick FMECA functionality, you will be able to quickly and effectively set priorities relevant to your installation in a clear and well-organised fashion;
• Library data functionality which enables you to again make use of properly implemented analyses from the past as well as past maintenance measures/concepts;
• Ability to import the Asset Register from CMMS, after which maintenance plans can be formulated directly ‘in the Asset Tree;’ • Preparation of maintenance plans in accordance with RCM, FMECA or your own experience, while making use of the library data;
• Determining your stock position based on the criticality analysis carried out; • Insight into costs, risks and operational performance on the basis of the updated maintenance plan;
• Using simulations to find the optimum balance between operational performance, financial performance and residual risk. The ability to use this information as input for realising concrete targets such as “10% savings on maintenance” or “an increase in uptime of 2%;”
• (the risk of) unacceptable incidents;
• Calculating in advance the effects of changes and new construction activities before deciding to take expensive/risky measures; • After preparation, exporting the maintenance plan to your CMMS for operational implementation;
• Minimising overall installation costs within the framework of Life Cycle Costing (LCC).