International Applied Reliability Symposium (ARS): An international reliability and maintainability conference event

Track 2 Session 10
2:00 to 3:10 p.m. Thursday September 14, 2006

Application of Reliability Tools for a Process Plant – CUF Experience

Being a utility and feed stock supplier to many of the downstream customer plants, the reliability for CUF is extremely important. CUF has adopted an integrated approach to achieve world-class plant reliability within a definite time frame. This includes the implementation of a comprehensive reliability and integrity management system, application of reliability tools such as FMEA, RCM, RCFA, RBD, Defect elimination and bad actor management, Basic Equipment Care (BEC), etc. This presentation describes the lessons learned and success stories in applying these reliability tools effectively.

 
Syed Rossedi
Petronas, Malaysia

 
SYED ROSSEDI TUAN DALAM graduated from the University of Malaya in Electrical Engineering in 1987. He joined Petronas Gas Bhd as a trainee engineer in 1987. He started his career as an electrical engineer in 1987 for about 3 years then switched to Control & Instrument (C&I) engineer, responsible for modification projects under the Plant Technical Services of GPPA. In 1997, he was transferred to Centralised Utilities facilities (CUF) as C&I project engineer, responsible in C&I related design work, attached with Consultant, Foster Wheeler, in Reading, UK. In 1999, he was the C& I construction engineer for CUF Kertih site and also supporting Gebeng site. After CUF construction and commissioning activities were completed, he was appointed as Maintenance Manager for CUF Kertih, responsible for managing all maintenance activities for CUF plant equipment and system. After 3 years in the maintenance department, he was internally transferred to the General Manager Office Department, as the Reliability Manager, overseeing plant reliability aspects and making sure CUF Kertih and Gebeng plants adopt and make into practice plant reliability programmes, especially in dealing with defect eliminations, best practices and development of relevant databases for the reliability programmes.