Reliability Information Management
RIM Best Practices
Best Practice #8: Establish a Repair Vendor Interface
Core Issues
- Make Repair Vendors a Partner in Reliability
- Maintains a history of repairs for each piece of equipment
- Aggregates failures and repairs for plant areas and equipment types
Advantages
- In order to make equipment live longer the plant must understand the root causes of failure for equipment and systematically remove these failure causes
- Critical, repairable components such as motors, pumps, hydraulic cylinders, etc. which are sent to an off-site repair vendor should be inspected for root cause of failure by the repair vendor
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