Gap analysis included the use of our AIMS (Asset Integrity Management) software tool that facilitates the quick and practical study of the gathered data, documentation and drawings.

For this particular client, we implemented the Hofincons Gap Analysis Methodology to augment their articulated strategy and deliver an improved and reliable system.

Interface to be built between Projects and CMMS Department.
By ensuring a close collaboration between the departments, Project information will be entered into the CMMS ensuring all ‘Maintainable Equipment’ is registered, appropriate maintenance and spares applied, thus ensuring less breakdowns and improved production.

CMMS to be updated with up-to-date information from ‘past’ projects, P&ID’s PEFS, Cause & Effects. this will be controlled and QA/QC’d by Hofincons AIMS (Asset Integrity Management System) Tool.
Information will now be visible to the Technicians at site for up to date information, this will assist them in maintaining the registered equipment to its optimum, thus ensuring less breakdowns and improved production.

Review current Planned Maintenance Tasks, apply Best Practice Techniques, Benchmarking Initiatives, plus integrate Condition Monitoring Applications, wherever possible.
A reduction of over 20% of the Planned Maintenance Annual Budget was identified for implementation, this included updating the task frequencies, unwarranted intrusive tasks that can be replaced by on condition and condition monitoring tasks, and the reduction in Technicians at site.

The availability of spare parts was causing production down time that could be improved if the CMMS had a Material Listing and / or BOM attached to the relevant equipment.
By reviewing the CMMS history, we were able to see where the unavailability of a ‘spare’ was causing unnecessary downtime, once implemented there is a potential saving of around 35% of the operational throughput.

Many of the Safety Critical Equipment that was identified had outdated (Generic) Performance Standards.
It was seen that the Performance Standard Tasks were outdated and not achievable (due to old thoughts and aging equipment that could not achieve their goal, i.e. ESDV closures, etc). To this end, by analysing the specific Asset HSE requirements, we suggested that ‘local’ Performance Standard Task requirements should be applied, thus, Safety was not impacted and the testing of the equipment was completed and assured for that particular Asset.