Track 1 Session 1

9:00 to 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Electrical Reliability - A Benchmarking Case Study

Electrical equipment failures will cause services to be interrupted, availability (uptime) will be affected and production time will be lost along with lots of opportunities to do business. Under normal circumstances in plant operation, electrical equipment will not get full attention from top management as the probability of failure rate is very low. However the consequences can be very high and may cause the plant to shutdown if poor electrical reliability performance is profound. This presentation will examine how electrical equipment reliability performance is measured, where the reliability implementation weakness existence and what are the "soft" & "hard" challenges ahead to overcome. The simplified Electrical Reliability and Maintenance (ERM) assessment tool was developed and used to audit the installed electrical equipment reliability practices and to identify the existing maintenance practice culture for electrical assets in plants. Eight classified elements of the benchmark criteria will be highlighted and reviewed. A case study of the ERM benchmarking of the data collection, technical management and the results of the analysis will be presented.

Key Words: Electrical Reliability, ISO 14224, Benchmark Criteria, ERM

Lam Sing Yew

ABB Malaysia Sdn Bhd