Products
Asset Management Planning Optimisation
We help you to develop asset management plans based on an understanding of the underlying performance of the assets,
allowing you to identify the trade off between greater expense in investment or replacement and the resulting performance
of the assets. We bring a combination of a methodology and a set of IT tools which allow you to model the performance of
your assets, and to carry out "what if" analysis to test alternative maintenance or replacement strategies, and to
understand the sensitivity of the outcomes to your underlying assumptions. This approach is particularly relevant for
industries such as utilities which have to produce forward asset plans for regulatory submission, where the outcome fixes
the investment available for a number of years to come. The approaches have been developed over more than a decade in a
range of asset intensive industries, and so the principles can be adapted and applied to a wide range of situations.
Likely industries to benefit from these services include rail (both infrastructure and rolling stock), electricity, water
and others.
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Expert System Implementation
Through our partnership with
Iisy, we bring our clients the world leading
expert system
SOLVATIO®, which has been used to great benefit in the area of fault diagnosis and
solution identification in a range of blue chip companies in industries including telecoms, manufacturing, automotive,
utilities, after sales service, and healthcare.
Through its unique combination of rules-based reasoning and case-based reasoning with a self-learning capability, it brings
the most powerful assistance available to help people to solve problems correctly and rapidly, and to provide a means of
capturing corporate knowledge and experience. This has particular advantages in environments where a number of staff lack
in-depth knowledge about equipment as new technology is brought in, or where an old and experienced workforce is moving on,
and their experience needs to be transferred to newer staff.
SOLVATIO® is especially applicable to situations where you have complex equipment, where the cost or
consequence of downtime is high, and where time diagnosing and then correctly fixing the problem must be minimised. It is
particularly appropriate where you have multiple installations of the same type of equipment.
Condition Monitoring optimisation using <EXAKT>TM
We help you to refine and optimise your condition monitoring programmes through the use of the
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<EXAKT>TM" tool, to identify which are the real crucial parameters for you to be
measuring, and to give you quantified predictions of the probability of failure of your equipment, in a format which is
understandable by staff at all levels in your organisation. Using this approach, you can simplify and reduce your
condition monitoring data capture workload, whilst improving the confidence of the conclusions you draw from the data.
We leave you with a tool which gives your staff simple "traffic light" guidance on what to do, but which takes into
account a very complex set of factors, including your cost of downtime, the cost of repair, and the age of the equipment,
as well as the simple condition monitoring readings themselves. The result is a more powerful output than can be given by
even the most sophisticated of the proprietary condition monitoring analysis tools, which rely mostly on trending.
For more information on <EXAKT>TM and how it works, download this PDF document:
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