Small Plant Model

You’re a small facility in a remote location with limited maintenance staff and resources. That puts Best Practice Reliability out of reach for you, right?

Wrong. Allied has changed all that.

We understand that most large companies have a handful of large facilities but often the overwhelming majority of their plants are what you would categorize as “small”. Typically this means less than a hundred or so assets, many times located in remote areas and employing only a handful of maintenance staff.

Best Practice Reliability just seems out of reach financially, logistically and administratively. Typical implementation is not only too costly for the small facility, but goes well beyond the available resources and expertise onsite.

To further complicate things, many regions of the world simply do not have CBM expertise and cannot even find it. Labor rules often prevent outside resources from performing data acquisition or the plant prefers to have their own team engaged in the process as part of their overall TPM effort.

The same can be said about other facility types like commercial buildings, municipalities, waste water treatment plants, etc. Best Practice Reliability, as it is commonly understood and implemented just seems out of reach and impractical.

We know. We understand. That’s why we’ve developed the Small Plant Model.

Allied has worked hard to design new hardware and software aggressively priced with small facilities in mind… without compromising capability or quality. We’ve developed training to qualify your staff in the data collection and process auditing.

This is not just a “you collect, we analyze” program! Our model task-qualifies your staff in the proper use of instruments and how to do good visual inspections. Being “web enabled”, you are not required to install or maintain any special software or systems.

Facilities vary in size and need so we offer three levels of coverage: Basic Care, Remote Diagnostics and Traditional CBM.

We start with an entry level design and setup: Overview of Reliability Process training, CMMS and Hierarchy review, Criticality Ranking, Walk Down, PM Evaluation and PM Optimization, Small Plant AHM, Maintenance Process Review, Craft Skills Review and then conduct a program design and development strategy session.

The Level 1 Basic Care involves building your asset database, learning the TEAM software, implementation of basic technologies, learning how to create routes and make rounds, Allied site visits the first two months with phone support, operation rounds logging, and Allied audits and education.

Level 2 is the implementation of Remote Diagnostics which allows the sharing of program responsibilities providing many of the benefits of a full time employee program (such as world class analysts and monthly scorecard reporting) and still making use of the strengths of all involved.

Remote Diagnostics incorporates the use of internal client resources to collect data such as vibration, mechanical and electrical infrared, ultrasound, motor circuit analysis and lubrication. That data is then analyzed by Allied and recommendations returned to the client.
As part of the Remote Diagnostics program, Allied provides training and support for the data collection process, identification of data integration points (hardware and software), specific equipment information for database and alarm development, communication and IT support as well as QA/QC monitoring.

Phone support for the program gives you direct access to Allied technicians, analysts and experts so you are never farther than one phone call from the help you need.

Level 3 is a traditional CBM Program. For more information, please contact an Allied representative.

Return On Asset Reliability (ROAR™), is derived from the common asset investment metrics return on capital and return on assets. ROAR™ identifies investment potential from a company’s current capital expenditure budget and utilizes proprietary benchmark data to produce a realistic return on investment opportunity.