Asset Management Insights. Celso de Azevedo

      

       Asset Management Insights

       Phases, Practices, and Values

      Celso de Azevedo, Ph.D.

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      Author: Celso de Azevedo, Ph.D.

      Title: Asset Management Insights: Phases, Practices, and Value

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      All rights reserved. Published in 2019.

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      ISBN (print) 978-0-8311-3644-4

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      To the memory of my brother, Wilton,

       with whom I shared the most beautiful learning:

       that of life.

       Contents

Foreword: The Emergence of a Necessity

Preface

The Structural Approach to the Book: The Matrix of Methodological Elements Associated with the Life Cycle Segments of Assets

Acknowledgments

PART I

THE PROJECT PHASE OF INDUSTRIAL ASSETS

CHAPTER 1

Demystifying the Project Phase

1.1 The Rise of a Praxis

1.2 Designing: A “Distinct” Activity

1.3 Decision-Making in the Preoperational Phase: Atony Comes at a Cost

1.4 An Opportunity for Improvement in Asset Design

CHAPTER 2

Reimagining the Procurement Function

2.1 The Fixation on Cost

2.2 Outsourcing and Accountability

       2.3 Changing the Terms of the Procurement Function

       CHAPTER 3

       FEED, RAMS, and Cost-Effective Availability

       3.1 The Input of Front-End Engineering and Design

       3.2 The Limitations of the RAMS Approach

       3.3 Cost-Effective Availability and Optimization: The FEEDMAN Protocol

       3.4 Key Factors of the Profitable Availability in the Project Phase

       3.5 FEEDMAN—FEED Aligned with Asset Management

       PART II

       BUILDING ASSETS AND PREPARING THEM FOR THEIR LIFE CYCLES

       CHAPTER 4

       From the Preoperational to the Operational Phase Construction and Installation

       4.1 Construction and Operations: Back to the Start

       4.2 An Opportune Moment

       4.3 Reliability: The DNA of Industrial Assets

       CHAPTER 5

       From the Commissioning of Assets to Their Operational Maintenance

       5.1 Commissioning and Maintenance: Between Two Worlds

       5.2 The Industrial Diapason

       PART III

       The Operational Life

       CHAPTER 6

       What Is the Operational Life?

       6.1 Maintenance and Asset Management: A Necessary Partnership

       6.2 Life Cycle and Alignment

       6.3 I Leap One

       CHAPTER