THE PHILOSOPHY OF INDUSTRIAL CONSERVATION

 By Prof. Eng Carlos De Leon  

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Our Development of the Philosophy of Industrial Conservation is supported by a robust Taxonomy of the Nature of Assets and rests on Powerful and Evident Precepts that we have been teaching in our Universities for decades, expressed in the co-authorship of 3 reference textbooks in use by Engineering.

 

A CONCEPT

We define Industrial Conservation as human action on a system that, through the application of scientific and technical knowledge, contributes to the optimal use of the resources of the human habitat, thereby promoting the integral development of man and his ecosystem. Industrial Conservation is divided into two large branches, Preservation, which refers to the material part of the system, and Maintenance, which is related to the service provided by said material.

 

Industrial Conservation requires information on the attention that an element requires for it to function properly during its useful life, that is, it requires general conservation strategies.

 

 

WHY IS THIS DOUBLE POINT OF VIEW NECESSARY?

EVERY PHYSICAL ASSET HAS TWO ATTRIBUTES.

 

An Attribute is Physical and Tangible and is managed through Preservation tasks in order to Control Failures produced by Wear and the action of Entropy. We evaluate the strength of this asset by its Failure Rate. Within this Physical Attribute ¨In Preservation Rests, Settles, Detects and Perceives the Benefit with a certain ease and rapid human understanding of the Advances in Technology Contained in the Asset in a Palpable manner.

 

The other Attribute is Intangible and is believed to be managed through those Activities and Tasks that today the majority of Society mistakenly calls Maintenance, since this Attribute really promotes the Quality of Service that the Physical Asset Provides to ensure the stipulated levels of Quality Delivered to the User Item, and that today are Neglected by Companies in General because they are easily confused.

 

The Effectiveness of the Service is controlled through its Complaint Rate, which is a consequence of Information Entropy.

 

• We quantify the benefits of the service from its own Intangible Nature such as, Response Capacity, Reliability, Availability, Dispatchability, Ability to perform the promised service carefully, Empathy, etc. but always with the Objective in Mind that this Attribute is the one that wins and retains the market that the Company supplies.

 

THE ULTIMATE REASON FOR AN ASSET IS TO PROVIDE SERVICE AND NOT TO PRESENT A TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION. IT IS NOT AND HAS NOT BEEN THE TECHNOLOGY THAT TIPS THE BALANCE OF THE ULTIMATE DECISION FOR ITS ACQUISITION OR RENTAL BY THE USER. IT IS THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE SERVICE PERCEIVED OR RECEIVED BY THE USER

 

The citizen PAYS WHATEVER FOR THE QUALITY SERVICE, to which he is already accustomed or which he is accustomed to receiving. And furthermore, he has the habit of receiving it at all times and when HIS NEED FOR THAT SERVICE MATERIALIZES IN HIS MIND AND HE REQUIRES IT to satisfy his Human Needs at that Moment, and therefore requires AVAILABILITY 24 HOURS / 7 DAYS A WEEK / 53 WEEKS A YEAR REGARDLESS OF THE TEMPORARY OR INTERMITTENT MANIFESTATION OF TIME

 

COMPLAINTS ARE NEVER THE SAME AS FAILURE. YOU HAVE DIFFERENT DISPERSION MECHANISMS AND THEREFORE CONTROL AND ADMINISTRATION

 

PRESERVATION ACTIVITIES ARE FOCUSED ON SAFEGUARDING THE ASSET FROM THE ACTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE STRESS MATRIX ON ITS PHYSICAL PART

 

The evidence of this Dichotomy of Assets is currently being Rapidly Revealed with greater clarity through CONTINUOUS MONITORING STRATEGIES OF THE HEALTH of the Asset, whether through industry 4.9, IIoT, Big-Data, Digital Twins, or Artificial Intelligence, etc., since the distributions of the failures are predominantly random and this nature only with this type of strategy, we have a feasible way that we can close the Gap between the FAILURE NOTICE AND ITS MATERIALIZATION IN TIME.

 

For some time now, a NEW PARADIGM has been operating that supports this philosophy

 

The REPLACEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP OF THE ITEM with its respective care activities by the PREPARATION OF WARRANTY CONTRACTS AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE PRODUCTION of that same item.

 

In exchange, the Preservation activities and some of the Maintenance activities have been transferred to the DOMAIN AND CORE OF THE OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) since it is the one that designed, manufactured and has the Information of the Item, not the Technical Personnel of the Company in its entirety

 

THIS GREAT AND ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE IS STILL NOT COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD AND COMPREHENSED AND ITS IMPLICATIONS BY THE CITIZENRY.

 

Where is the Great Confusion. Since the concept of repair was born and given the intangible nature of a part of its Dichotomy, it caused the technicians of the companies to assign the Functions of Industrial Conservation (the Whole) only one part, the Physical and EVIDENT OF THAT DICHOTOMY OF THE ASSET, to the Preservation of the Asset, leaving Orphaned and meaningless within its Vision to Maintenance. Today there is a Revolution led by the countless Electricity Blackouts in various Countries that have made the Major Error of placing types of Machines and Energy Generation Devices based on Intermittent, Non-Dispatchable and Unreliable Sources, Not Available and that necessarily require the Backup of a Traditional Plant for when these or reduce their Low Production (due to that natural intermittence based on the weather forecast and its low efficiency factor in the transformation of the incoming energy) or to the intrinsic characteristics of an Energy Demand by the users. All of this is supported by a fierce appetite of a lobby that seeks and obtains Huge Subsidies that the end user then has to pay through increased rates and electricity bills.

 

BAD BUSINESS BAD SERVICE

Thinking of Baby Boomer Generation Technicians (I Am One)

 

SERVICE ALWAYS COMES FIRST

 

SERVICE IS MAINTAINED FIRST

 

THEN THE MACHINE IS REPAIRED IF IT IS IN SAFE STATUS

 

A concept similar to that existing in Ecology must be applied to the Conservation of productive systems. The machine or operating product is an ecologic system formed by matter intelligently arranged so that when operating, it will provide the service expected by the user