Increasing demands on maintenance and operations organization are coupled with the loss of expertise industry-wide — causing many organizations to approach plant maintenance more reactively in spite of past investments in Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) efforts — including Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA). This phenomenon is known as degradation of the maintenance basis. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has developed a method to maintain the investments utilities have made into various maintenance optimization efforts. Utilizing expert elicitation, EPRI has developed modules for 136 different components and a statistical method for measuring degradation and task effectiveness data for each component and rolling those results to the system and the plant level. The end result of a successful analysis is a technical basis for maintenance that is established using quantitative analysis on proven data. This paper will describe a method for vulnerability-based analysis.
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ASME 2008 Power Conference
July 22–24, 2008
Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Power Division
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0-7918-4832-9
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After FMECA: Using Vulnerability to Establish a Technical Basis for Maintenance Tasks
Justin Thibault
Justin Thibault
Electric Power Research Institute, Charlotte, NC
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Justin Thibault
Electric Power Research Institute, Charlotte, NC
Paper No:
POWER2008-60073, pp. 187-195; 9 pages
Published Online:
July 8, 2009
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Thibault, J. "After FMECA: Using Vulnerability to Establish a Technical Basis for Maintenance Tasks." Proceedings of the ASME 2008 Power Conference. ASME 2008 Power Conference. Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA. July 22–24, 2008. pp. 187-195. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/POWER2008-60073
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