ABSTRACT
The critical part, process, and equipment failure of any technological system have the ability to bring plants and facilities to a halt and a catastrophic damage. It is therefore necessary to design maximum achievable reliability into critical manufacturing process, parts, and equipment and to have costeffective maintenance strategies and shutdown protection programs in place to prevent catastrophic failures. It is a known fact that existing protection monitors and other existing monitoring and maintenance tools can only trip a relay on high vibration, but provides no insight into what the problem is all about. With the application of the technological inheritance (TI) model in an integrated reliability condition monitoring and maintenance (IRCMM) program, it is possible to have insights into failures, prevent failures, predict time of failures, diagnose the failures of parts and equipment, and attain maximum achievable reliability for longer lifetime of parts and equipment and provide insights into the root cause of failures. Integrated reliability condition monitors (IRCMs) and maintenance strategies can be used as proactive, predictive, and detective tools for fatigue, wear, corrosion, and temperature failures and can be used to develop maximum achievable reliability and maintain obsolete protection monitors, while today’s plants are reengineering with the help of the TI model to integrate protection monitoring, prediction monitoring, performance monitoring, and integrated reliability condition monitoring (CM) under a single platform.
