Volume 5
In the era where enormous amount of data is being collected, ISO 14224 provides the guideline on what data needs to be collected. In Volume 4, we covered the benefits of implementing Enterprise Asset Management. In this article, we provides a guideline for Asset Breakdown Structure and Failure Codes for optimizing equipment performance data quality.
Asset Hierarchy
With a structured approach meaningful data can be collected and analyzed to drive decisions. A typical asset standard should include at a minimum.
- A taxonomy for the naming of all levels of the asset hierarchy, ranging from the Business level, down to the maintainable item.
- A list of standard equipment classes and types needs to be defined
- A list of required information for each asset by class and type.
- An asset numbering system.
The ISO 14224 taxonomy defines different levels at which data needs to be collected.
Levels 1 through 4 represent a high-level categorization that relates to Facility, plants and their sections. These levels are regardless of the equipment units involved.
The Maintainable Item (MI) is the smallest component/ part that is repaired or replaced in the Equipment. The Failure Mode (FM) is one or more ways in which each MI can fail.
This way one can easily monitor:
- Mean Time to Fail (MTTF) and Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) per Failure Mode (FM).
- Failure Distribution per FM
- Fixed vs Context data (Based on meta data: e.g. Product Medium, MI material, Temperature, Load)
- Equipment and Maintainable Item (MI) Value & Age (Life Cycle Cost Analysis – LCCA)
Failure Codes
In order to improve failure data collection, the failure code library is to be developed and linked to the specific asset classes/sub-classes. The figure below illustrates the Failure Code hierarchy and information to be collected.
Reliability Trends
With the asset hierarchy and relevant failure data collected, trends can be established across asset classes, similar processes, etc. Artificial data analysis and data mining can be easily deployed to analyze trends:
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