Developing a Maintenance strategy for any industrial equipment is essential work for maintenance experts. To eliminate loss of production, it is necessary to eliminate equipment failures with preventive maintenance activities. The problem starts, when costs of preventive maintenance activities, which are set to prevent failure to occur, overgrow consequent production loss costs. One of the methodologies which is used to develop an optimum maintenance strategy is RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance). The RCM methodology is based on Risk Assessment through the application of FMEA (Failure mode effects analysis) which are used to analyse effects of potential failures.

This presentation covers:

• Developing a model for defining an optimal maintenance strategy in the early stage of the equipment procurement phase
• Selecting vendors whose equipment will maximally reduce production downtime in the case of failure
• RCM and FMEA as a basis for the model
• Spare Parts: budget, cost, delivery time and downtime costs due to the delivery time
• Standard spare parts (SSP) and Vendor Spare parts (VSP): Calculating total downtime cost
• Setting up a framework on how to develop a maintenance strategy model to select and purchase equipment that will have the lowest downtime costs during the operation phase