Optimization of Maintenance Management Using Cwork Software Neem Field Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company

Abstract

Competition among global industrial companies has become feature of this era; this has begun to emerge in the middle of the last century and during vigorous and serious attempts to develop specific industrial criteria in order to be used as standards, many renowned companies in the global market such as Ford Motor of America (PM) and Japanese Toyota (TPM) has established foundations and systems [4] which later became the cornerstone in the management of maintenance . But, implementation of these standards would not be easy in this turf without computers aid, and have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the computerized Maintenance Management System was a real addition contributed to reduce maintenance expenses, which in turn led to increase profits and this is the crux of the matter. In this applied research, an attempt had been done to optimize the computerized maintenance management system which already implemented in Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company – which is considered a pioneer in this field – in Neem Field Processing Facilities after arise of some problems in the system such as non-updated with the new projects, which was created later to improve the field productivity, in which maintenance operations were conducted randomly, and that in turn leads to more use of spare parts and lubricant oils. Also, the company’s policy towards the maintenance of some units in the field has become not possible due to the lack of requirements of this policy in the company, so Cworks system was implemented to address these problems and to improve the performance of maintenance in the field and to re-evaluated the real consumption of the spare parts and lubricant for the maintenance planner. Been taken into account that Cworks software is similar to the system which is currently applied, and to be applied easily, free of complexity, it also contains a record of the data entered previously for any equipment had been repaired, which facilitates the process of analyzing the failures to apply maintenance strategies such as reliability and availability that’s through Mean Time Between Failure, and Mean Time To Repair standards. And has demonstrated program effectiveness after a simple application of PM on chemical pumps after the company has been using a maintenance system known as (Run To Failure), also consumption control is increased for spare parts and oils by knowing the amounts specified for each job, that is after submitting these amounts in the work permit.