Abstract
The various influences exerted by management at different levels of an organization to secure reliable and continuing operation of electricity generating plant are dealt with.
Consideration is given to the requirement at the top executive level for the strategic planning and scheduling of plant outages for maintenance and overhaul, to ensure the minimum cost of production from an integrated supply system consistent with obtaining long-term reliable operation of individual plants. Also considered is the requirement for various management levels at those plants to provide detailed planning of work content, resources, and logistics associated with maintenance of individual plant items.
The collection and analysis of plant performance data, to determine correct work content and frequency of routine maintenance to provide an economic balance between outages due to maintenance and outages due to failure, are studied together with the constraints imposed by statutory inspections.
Diagnostic testing of electrical and mechanical plant to help reduce plant outage time, and the influence of non-destructive testing techniques on reducing expensive cascading failures, are examined. The influence of correct utilization of tools, maintenance equipment, and methods of working on minimizing plant down time and the use of special equipment to facilitate inspection of inaccessible plant in both the conventional and nuclear fields are also considered.
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