Case Studies in Maintenance and Reliability: A Wealth of Best Practices. V. Narayan
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Название: Case Studies in Maintenance and Reliability: A Wealth of Best Practices
Автор: V. Narayan
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Физика
isbn: 9780831190552
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•Replacement Value (RV). This is a popular divisor. Values show wide differences between similar plants located in different regions. UK and Japan show significantly higher replacement values than Continental Europe and Australia.
•In Australia, the RVs are deliberately kept as low as is believable because the local authorities use them to determine local taxes.
•When derived for insurance purposes, there is an equally powerful drive for minimization, as long as it is believable.
•One consultant calculates an estimated replacement value(RV) for each process facility considered in their studies. Although the methodology is proprietary, their RVs are almost directly proportional to their EDC values. We found at the time that they were approximately 60% of our company’s quoted RVs. Possibly this is because of their simplification of ignoring facilities such as their own utilities and generation, and assuming optimized size of tank farms, jetties, pipelines, and other peripheral activities. The valuations seem to be based on modern designs and technology; this penalizes the older plants with their piece meal modifications over the years.
8-B.3 Concluding Thoughts
Each divisor has some advantages (easy availability) and disadvantages (varying degrees of inaccuracy).
As a leading benchmarking firm once remarked, “A dog is a dog however you measure it!”
Reality brings us to three divisors:
1.Intake barrels per day as it is immediately available and free; but the answers should be viewed with caution.
2.Equivalent Distillation Capacity (EDC) as it is becoming widely adopted in the refining world.
3.Replacement Values, but see the caveats below:
•They should not be too influenced by insurance, financial, or rating considerations.
•The traditional method of escalating original as-built costs, using published international construction indices, should be used with caution as the final values can be unevenly distorted and defeat their purpose.
•The calculation should take reasonable account of standard and special-process plants, utilities, off-sites including major pipelines and jetties, and offices.
PART 3: PEOPLE
Only those who will risk going too far will ever know how far they can go.
T.S. Eliot, Author.
Author: Jim Wardhaugh
Location: 2.3.3 Corporate Technical Headquarters
9.1 Background
When I first started work, I had no computer and I shared a telephone with six other engineers. I had a real-time information service in the form of an engineering clerk; I also had over a hundred employees with a bevy of foremen. As I progressed through my career, I have acquired a computer and a telephone of my own. I lost my real-time engineering clerk and the number of people reporting to me has shrunk every year. Indeed for most of my career, how many people I could get rid of each year and still get the job done seemed to be the most important factor in setting my salary increase.
What I have learned over the years about staffing levels is that:
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