Operational Readiness for Projects
Operational Readiness process is a structured and systematic approach to determine the format of equipment data required by the maintenance team from the project team, to sustain the designed operational availability performance of the installed equipment during its life cycle.
Nearly all projects go through some capital approval process, where the benefits of the project are defined and the cost justification based on the delivery of that performance. However, this takes for granted that many of the maintenance and operation processes are adapted before start up. Trying to achieve a level of performance while dealing with issues such as premature failures, identifying latent defects, the lack of technical data and spare parts. More effort needs to be implemented to organise maintenance processes even before commissioning.
Unfortunately, many maintenance organisations are not designed with resources available to populate their maintenance management systems with new project equipment data, not least to create equipment plans or purchase spare parts. Similarly, project teams are not given clear direction on what types of equipment data that are required by the maintenance and operations teams, hence we often have an impasse between deliverables and expectations.
Operational Readiness is a vehicle for delivering maintenance, inspection and engineering documentation as a project deliverable; instructions can be incorporated into project teams (or their respective EPC contracts) to minimise interfaces and expedite the transfer of data in native file formats. It can also be performance managed to meet project schedules and key milestones (e.g. commissioning or start up).
As every client and site is different, the process can be customised based on the type of project, complexity or value. In all instances there are basic foundational blocks and options to expand the scope of work.
Contact us.
If you would like to learn more or have questions regarding Operational Readiness for Projects, please contact JU-TECH Consultants.