Maintenance Content and Planning
Ensure applicability to potential failure modes.
Ensure maintenance is effective and worthwhile.
Ensure any preventive action is the lowest cost option.
Independent Advice For Gas Turbine, Gas Compression And Pump Packages
Independent Rotating Equipment Expertise
In times of increased pressure to optimise the safety, availability and cost effectiveness of large rotating equipment assets, it is more crucial than ever to make expertly informed decisions. Whether there are persistent reliability issues, or the maintenance burden is high or thermal efficiency is poor, the consequences of not optimising the operational metrics can drain vital resources. To counter shortfalls in equipment performance, independent expert opinion and due diligence are more important than ever.
services
Independent expert support for industrial /aeroderivative gas turbine, gas compression and pump packages
Outputs
- Independent and Experienced Advice
For more informed operational and maintenance decisions - Insights into Risks & Opportunities
Increased awareness of threats and possibilities - Solutions to Difficult Operational Problems
Creating options that can be actioned in today’s environment
benefits
- Increased Reliability, Availability & Safety
Through targeted investigation and optimised maintenance - Enhanced Production Capability
Through enhanced operational flexibility - Reduced OPEX
Through better decisions rather than opaque commitments
Failure Investigation and Troubleshooting
Solve persistent reliability & availability issues.
Receive practical solutions to either reduce or eliminate downtime issues.
Release corrective resources for reallocation.
Identify the key causal factors of unsatisfactory performance and put them right
Fitness for Service Assessment
Make better decisions on equipment requirements.
Get service time estimations with selected operating profiles.
Benefit from desktop assessments and on-site Borescope inspections.
Knowledge and experience of potential failure mechanisms is key to good fitness for service assessments
Oversight of Overhauls & Repairs
Ensure default assumptions and opinions are challenged.
Avoid unnecessary scrappage of valuable components.
Receive recommendations on which repairs are required, and which are optional.
The aim is to achieve a Goldilocks restoration by not doing too little and not doing too much
Superfluous maintenance exerts a drag on resources that otherwise could be better employed elsewhere
ABOUT RODIR
Rodir has been providing consultancy services since 1999, focused on the operation and maintenance of gas turbine, gas compression and pump packages in the oil & gas, petrochemical and power industries. Our primary clients are suppliers to and operators of rotating equipment in the North Sea Oil & Gas sector.
We advise on core equipment design, modifications, the life status of components, and maintenance content & planning on all aspects of rotating equipment packages, including control software. We also design and supply certified transportation baskets, changeout and test bed tooling and lifting beams. Honesty, integrity and adherence to engineering fundamentals are our concerns.
As the principal service provider, I have over 35 years’ of extensive experience on major rotating equipment, including employment in various technical and management roles with a gas turbine OEM, an oil and gas operator and overhaul & repair shops prior to Rodir.
Dugald Carmichael
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