Maintenance Development

Information Quality firmly believes that a robust maintenance strategy is one of the primary requirements to operating an oil, gas or mining assets safely and efficiently. Developing, planning and applying appropriate maintenance routines will ensure maximum production whilst maintaining the safety of all personnel and plant.

IQ implement a multi point interface process, including the client, engineering and construction contractors, suppliers, end operators and maintenance personnel to ensure that all operations and maintenance deliverables are produced and delivered in an efficient, effective and accurate manner.

Maintenance Build

IQ provides a maintenance solution from the inception right through to generating operational work orders. This process begins by using RCM (Reliability Centred Maintenance) methodology to derive maintenance strategies. IQ can then develop maintenance plans at appropriate frequencies which include task lists containing all task hours, resource requirements, maintenance procedures and identifying spare parts required to complete maintenance.

IQ can also develop corrosion loop and vessel inspection maintenance plans based on RBI (Risk Based Inspection) report reviews. This includes identifying corrosion loops to include within the asset register.

IQ is able to develop inspection procedures and where required, piping isometrics to assist inspectors and attach to maintenance work orders. IQ can develop maintenance build information in a variety of formats to suit client’s specific requirements, ready for upload to a CMMS such as SAP PM. IQ takes pride in producing deliverables of the highest possible quality in line with the project schedule. There are multiple internal and external reviews during the maintenance development process, which include client representatives. This includes squad checking all documents, builds and procedures.

Bill of Materials

IQ utilise existing engineering data to build equipment specific, bills of materials which includes building the BOM structure. IQ has expert engineering personnel who will initially identify the maintainable equipment which will require a BOM. Once built, all BOM data is extracted ready for upload into clients CMMS.

IQ can also catalogue all spare parts directly into a clients CMMS as well as identifying all spares (operational and insurance) required to operate an asset.

Asset Register

IQ can develop an asset register of maintainable items, based on our extensive experience and existing engineering data. An asset register is crucial in identifying the scope of maintenance required for any plant. IQ is also ideally placed to advise on, or develop functional location and equipment hierarchy’s to suit industry standard CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System) such as SAP PM, AMOS or bespoke company maintenance systems.

IQ can advise on the technical integrity status of all functional locations based on client’s asset safety case and associated performance standard requirements. Determining and maintaining the Technical Integrity standard is critical to the safe operation of any facility.

Hazardous Area Equipment Schedule

It is particularly important in the oil and gas sector to build a complete asset list of Hazardous Area certified equipment and associated engineering data. IQ’s extensive database of Hazardous Area Certificates and catalogue data enables us to quickly, efficiently and accurately build hazardous area registers which contain this critical information in an easy to access and cross reference format.

In conjunction with the asset register, this information is critical in developing appropriate inspection regimes as per international standards and client preference. Ideally, this task is performed in conjunction with and then incorporated into the assets’ maintenance build.

Vendor Equipment Manuals

IQ is able to consolidate and configure vendor information to produce vendor equipment manuals in line with client standard formatting, to assist in the maintenance and operation of equipment during the operational phase of an asset lifecycle.

Experience has shown that often vendor information is delivered in a format which reflects the vendor’s standard rather than the client’s requirements. A little effort expended to reconfigure the manuals and related information into a standard and easy to navigate format proves well worthwhile when the information is being urgently sought during abnormal process or operational conditions.

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