Chapter 2: Taxonomy of Industrial Conservation.

Chapter 2: Taxonomy of Industrial Conservation

Most of the people who have to work with a machine or equipment at any stage (design, manufacture, purchase, installation, acceptance test, operation, preservation, maintenance or removal) have many problems while trying to understand that there is an absence of a true applicable taxonomy industrial "maintenance", because it could not be fully developed in the absence of a foundation on which to lean, in other words, a beginning. Every physical resource in operation has two attributes: its structure or component parts and the service it provides. These attributes have to be addressed separately (keeping service and resource; preserving it) so you can set the following principle: "The service is maintained and the resource is preserved".

A machine or a computer has two attributes; on the one hand, its physical side and on the other, the service provided. These attributes require human attention, as preservation, maintenance and to achieve the expected performance in productivity, as shown in the following scheme:

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It became known that the center of the definition of maintenance is the service provided by the machine; in other words, our statement on the principle of conservation is clarified: "The service is maintained and the machine is preserved".

This change of philosophy is important because it enhances the understanding of the subject, and to establish a true taxonomy, making it possible to state a classification and establishment of definitions and terms used in maintenance engineering.

The service is first

When a team gives us a service, classified as vital or important, for any reason do not allow it to stop working within their established parameters. Although there can be contingencies.

Maintenance Service

We try to avoid at all costs losing the quality of service that has been classified as vital.

Keeping mission

The mission of the maintenance staff is that as soon realizes that a system, equipment or machine has lowered its reliability, immediately do what is necessary to return it to its normal condition.

THE CONCEPT OF CONSERVATION

Usually, the idea we have of conservation is to be really careful while interacting with a resource; however, nothing is further from reality, since conservation is to obtain resource protection and at the same time, the desired quality of service it provides. That is why the two general conservation objectives are:

1. To maintain the quality and quantity of service provided by an application or system resources within the expected parameters during its scheduled operating time.

2. Preserve, within established economic limits, the life cycle cost (LCC) of company resources

With this, in addition to getting what we want in the first place, also we minimize maintenance costs and the cost of the life cycle of our resources (LCC) and maximize their availability.

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Conservation is all human action, through the application of scientific and technical knowledge, contributing to optimal use of existing resources in the human habitat and thereby promotes the integral development of man and society.

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