Strategy Development

Contents
Asset Prioritization
Current Practice Review
Reliability Strategy Selection
Strategy Development Analysis Studies
Maintenance Task Analysis
Design FMECA
RCM2 Analysis
Risk-based Inspection Analysis
Safety Instrumented Function Analysis
Importing Criticality Evaluations into Failure Modes
Failure Mode Comparison
Strategy development analyses are methodologies for evaluating asset priority, defining asset functions, determining how failures occur (failure modes), and preventing or mitigating the effect of failures. Types of strategy development analysis include:

Asset Prioritization Analysis

Asset prioritization analysis (also known as equipment risk prioritization) is an organized and methodical procedure for assessing the importance of assets within your organization. A prioritization analysis identifies the business risks posed by an asset’s failure in terms of safety, environmental impact, and operational and non-operational consequences. It takes into account the asset’s probability or rate of failure.

Current Practice Review (CPR)

Current Practice Review (CPR) is a strategy development methodology. It provides a way to quickly implement your existing reliability program in APM using available information such as paper-based inspections, manufacturers’ maintenance instructions, and predictive maintenance (PdM) routes.

Reliability Strategy Selection (RSS)

Reliability strategy selection (RSS) analysis applies a set of criteria to an asset to determine the most appropriate plan for improving its reliability. The analysis team uses the Reliability Strategy Selection questionnaire to perform, document, and review analyses of system-level assets. Possible strategies are to implement (or continue) basic care, perform maintenance task analysis, perform RCM2 analysis, or escalate the asset risk to stakeholders for further consideration and action.

Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA2)

Maintenance task analysis (MTA2) is APM’s unique strategy development methodology that enables the analysis team to quickly create and implement basic, technically-sound reliability programs. MTA2 is most effective when operational and maintenance knowledge about assets is well-documented and consistently used by employees. MTA2 provides an alternative to the resource-intensive RCM2 analysis, while still allowing you to identify the right work to improve performance across the plant.
MTA2 methodology and tools allow the analysis team to:
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Identify the assets to be analyzed
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Identify the causes of asset failure
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Recommend actions to prevent or mitigate failures

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM2)

Reliability-centered maintenance is “A process used to determine the maintenance requirements of any physical asset in its operating context” (John Moubray, Reliability-Centered Maintenance, second edition).
RCM2 is the reliability-centered maintenance process practiced by Bentley APM consultants. One of the features of RCM2 that distinguishes it from other interpretations of the RCM philosophy is that cross-functional groups of users and maintainers perform the analyses. After training, these analysis teams apply the process to their assets to produce robust and cost-effective asset reliability programs.

Risk-based Inspection (RBI) Analysis

Risk-based inspection is a risk assessment and management process that focuses on loss of containment of pressurized equipment in processing facilities due to material deterioration. Risk analysis is essential to the RBI process and involves the systematic use of information to identify sources and to estimate the risk. Information can include historical data, theoretical analysis, and informed opinions. Analysis therefore requires a team of people from a range of technical disciplines.

Safety Instrumented Function Analysis

Safety instrumented function (SIF) analysis is one of the strategy development methodologies available in APM. The safety analysis team studies system-level and related assets to determine loss of containment scenarios, identify risk levels, and identify the safety provisions that protect against, or mitigate, loss of containment.