Early Equipment Management

The EEM allows continuous monitoring of the design process. It is a fundamental tool for a smooth and predictable design of a new industrial plant.

World Class Project Management: Key Themes

The core ofEEM is “Project management”, which enables continuous monitoring of the project process.
The projects, once created and managed, are constantly monitored by a project team.
The project team is qualified with certified skills.
he project is validated through the completion of MPInfo and Check list.

Project

It is divided into 7 steps:

Planning
Basic design
Detailed design
Manufacturing
Installation
Trial production
Start up

Project Team

The team is qualified with skills for each role. Their main tasks include responding to checklists, reporting defects, resolving them, and approving the steps.

MP Info

The MP info defines a problem and its related solution. It is documented and accessible to everyone. Its main strength is that it helps prevent a maintenance problem.

Checklist

Each step involves completing a checklist of questions that must be answered to finalize each stage of the project. The proposed checkpoints are sent for approval to designated users with the appropriate skills (the approvers).

Advantages

The benefits of using a tool like the EEM are quite clear:

Simplification of maintenance activities: the mean time to repair (MTTR) and the scheduled maintenance time are reduced;
Improve of the plant's reliability;
Exploitation of company know-how through the involvement of teams with specific skills;
Reductionof operational costs throughout the asset's lifecycle (LCC)

Skills

The skills are divided into three categories:

Reactive
Preventive
Proactive

Each role requires a level of competence (from 0 to 5) in specific skills: the radar chart visually highlights this relationship.

Reports

The reports, strictly visual, allow for an immediate perception of how many checklists and MP info have reached the "checked" status.

The data can be filtered by date, plant, processes, etc.

Project model repository

Each project is accompanied by thematic folders in which relevant documents can be uploaded (es. LCC, Machine Ledger, FMEA, ecc..)

Every time a new project is created, it will carry the folder structure described in the "Project model repository."

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