The Asset Partnership has a range of software Toolkits to help automate operational management processes.
All software Toolkits are available independently of our consulting service, with the Reliability-centred Maintenance (RCM2) and Qualitative Risk Assessment (qRA) Toolkits supported by public and in-house training programs.
Plant Criticality Toolkit
Establishing the criticality of assets, plant, and equipment is can be an essential element in any organisation's Asset and Risk Management Strategies.
The Asset Partnership has developed the Criticality Toolkit software to assist in conducting plant criticality analysis . It has been designed to provide a simple to operate, technically sound approach to developing a criticality profile for any industrial operation. It operates on the fundamental principle that plant criticality is the product of probability of failure occurrence and failure consequence.
Failure consequence has several components which are scored within the Toolkit:
- Operational impact of failure
- Likely repair costs
- Mean time to repair
- Presence of built in redundancy
- Safety and environmental impact of failure
Specific scoring parameters are developed by the organisation commissioning the analysis so that each component is scored on an appropriate 'equivalent' basis. These bespoke scoring parameters are embedded in the Toolkit by The Asset Partnership to suit each organisation.
Scoring operates on the principle of 'equivalence'. For instance, the losses incurred by an organisation through injury of one of its personnel would be equivalent to a particular loss of production. From a criticality perspective, environmental incidents are 'equivalent' to losses of production of a particular level or indeed a safety incident of a particular severity. This principle is explained in detail in the start-up workshop which precedes the criticality analysis process.
Criticality Toolkit runs on any IBM-compatible PC running Windows 95 or later, with a minimum 16MB of RAM and 35MB Hard disk space.
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