Title :
Reliability centered maintenance at Florida Power Corporation
Author :
Hardwick, Gregory M.
Author_Institution :
Florida Power Corp., St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Abstract :
The fundamental purpose of reliability centred maintenance (RCM) at Florida Power Corporation (FPC) is to increase reliability, optimize operating costs, and extend the useful life of its bulk power assets. At Florida Power, reliability centered maintenance (RCM) program is dependent on a condition assessment of the asset. The program is based on an automated CMMS application with ability to: identify and organize system equipment groups and components; include equipment and maintenance activity costs; record a complete maintenance history and condition of specific equipment; trigger and rank maintenance tasks based on a condition assessment; and to link to other databases and corporate systems for “intelligent decision making”
Keywords :
maintenance engineering; power apparatus; power systems; reliability; Florida Power Corporation; asset condition assessment; automated CMMS application; bulk power assets; condition assessment; corporate systems; databases; intelligent decision making; maintenance activity costs; maintenance history; maintenance tasks ranking; operating costs optimisation; reliability centered maintenance; reliability improvement; Coordinate measuring machines; Database systems; Dissolved gas analysis; Flexible printed circuits; Maintenance; Power system relaying; Power system reliability; Protective relaying; Scheduling; Substation protection;
Conference_Titel :
Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, 1999. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Edmonton, Alta.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5569-5
DOI :
10.1109/PESS.1999.787483