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Be st Practice 1 1.12 Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Best Practices

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Conduct yearly machinery vendor improvement meetings the plant, dependent on personal contacts and the in-
on site. dividuals involved with a specific task.
These meetings serve to: Discussions with clients over the years has shown that failure to
Alert the vendors of pending reliability issues maintain a consistent vendor relationship after plant start-up results in
Obtain vendor machinery reliability improvement recommendations an inconsistent quality of vendor service engineer and home office
Establish a ‘team’ spirit with the vendor support.
Establish a working relationship that will last for the life of the plant
and not be dependent on personnel traits and relationships Benchmarks
After plant start-up, machinery vendor contacts are few and usually This best practice has been recommended since 1990 to all clients.
only for: Where this recommendation has been followed, clients have experi-
Breakdown maintenance activities enced continuous vendor support of the highest quality. In addition,
Turnaround activities they have been immediately alerted to any required modifications or
Machinery re-rates (increased capacity modifications) improvements that could be executed during the next turnaround.
Establishing a yearly vendor contact and having site meetings will
ensure continued vendor support of the highest quality.
Lessons Learned
Plants that do not establish and nurture a plant/vendor
relationship are subject to varying support over the life of

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