Condition Based Maintenance

We have the expertise, capabilities and tools to tackle your toughest maintenance challenges to improve your plant’s reliability through Condition Based Maintenance.

SETTING THE
STANDARDS

We operate to ISO 9001:2015 standards and all our engineers are trained to ISO/PCN standards.

FLEXIBLE AND RESPONSIVE

We have 40+ reliability engineers located across the UK, enabling us to be competitive on travel and expenses costs.

A TRUSTED
CBM PARTNER

We have a 99% client retention rate for the last 5 years, demonstrating our commitment to great service.

For most manufacturers, unscheduled downtime caused by an unexpected failure on a highly critical piece of equipment is simply not an option. Identifying and preventing failures early can pay dividends, resulting in significant cost savings and downtime avoidance. 

Implementing Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) can provide you with valuable insights on the condition of your critical machines, enabling you to proactively schedule your maintenance tasks by only performing maintenance work on assets when required.

The decision to implement CBM at your plant can depend on several factors, but a greater return on investment is often seen if your plant is experiencing some of the reliability challenges listed below.

• Increasing backlogs of corrective maintenance tasks
• Unacceptable levels of plant downtime
• High percentage level of intrusive maintenance activity
• Operational, maintenance, project asset care and support service work is not efficiently delivered
• Site delivery resources are not effectively utilised
• Planned preventative Vs predictive maintenance balance is poor
• Ineffective workflow management and control procedures

Condition based maintenance can help your plant make significant savings on your maintenance spend by reducing unexpected failures and increasing machinery availability. It ensures that maintenance work is only performed when irregularities are identified in the real-time data, meaning you can better prioritise your maintenance tasks. 

There is no one size fits all solution when it comes to reliability. That is why we work with you to identify your goals, budget and processes to tailor a programme to your exact needs, making sure you get the best return on your investment possible.  Our success is dependent on your success – we achieve when you achieve.

Your machines talk. Condition-based maintenance technologies enable us to understand what your machine is saying by measuring its signals, messages and patterns. This means we can provide you with reports and recommendations to make data-driven decisions, with enough lead time to plan and carry out corrective actions around your maintenance schedule. 

If you are just getting started with CBM, we can support you to identify your most production critical assets and their failure modes, taking into consideration your reliability goals, budget and preferred methods of maintenance to build an Equipment Maintenance Plan (EPM) that is bespoke to your requirements.

If you already deploy CBM on your machines, we can review your existing programme to make sure you are getting the most from it and have enough lead time to fix problems in the most cost-effective way.

Our team of reliability consultants will work with you to review current maintenance practices and asset performance. A typical approach on how we implement a CBM programme is illustrated below.

1. REVIEW

The very first step is for our team of reliability consultants to work with you to identify which assets to monitor. We do this by reviewing your existing EPM to ensure the right resources are deployed on the right assets at the right time.

2. SITE SCOPE

We will attend your site and perform a walk-round to build an asset list (if you don’t have one already) and agree on monitoring methods, maintenance tasks, failure modes and highlight your most critical assets.

3. SETUP, BASELINE & TRAINING

We will carry out an initial baseline survey in conjunction with your team. We will also make sure all members of your maintenance team understand the different types of CBM technologies and the role they play.

4. DATA COLLECTION

Using a multi-technology approach, our attending reliability engineers and consultants will collect data from your chosen assets but also utilise the tools available to identify other reliability issues (depending on time and accessibility).

5. RESULTS & REPORTS

We will highlight conditional data anomalies, making recommendations and uploading our multi-technology report to our web-based reporting platform, Asset Insight 365. This will enable you to make data-driven decisions and schedule corrective action.

6. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

Your maintenance strategy is constantly evolving, which is why we will always have a strong focus on continuous improvement. We will regularly review your CBM strategy to make sure you are achieving the best possible return on your investment.