Análisis rcm de la línea de empaque de papa para una empresa multinacional de alimentos en quito

Abstract

This document aims to present a Reliability Centered Maintenance analysis and as part of it, to develop a deep study of the system to obtain a maintenance plan, a failure mode and effects analysis, operation and maintenance procedures structured in a systemic way that prevent such failures from occurring and thus increase the availability of machines, improve maintenance procedures and reduce downtime in a food company in the city of Quito.

The following stages are presented:

- Identification of the equipment that make up the general system.

- Breakdown into subsystems.

- Preliminary study of the operation of the equipment.

- Failure mode and effects analysis

- Elaboration of maintenance protocols and improvements, including the maintenance plan. After this in-depth study, a series of recommendations and conclusions are presented to improve the productivity of the installation, obtaining a list of critical parts and parts that must be kept in stock, new maintenance techniques including modern predictive maintenance methodologies, parts of systems to improve, training recommendations for maintenance and operations employees.

In this way, it is expected to improve the availability of the machines, to depend less on specialized maintenance employees and to obtain better qualifications in internal audits of the company, coming to stand out at the regional level.