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- Power required and Reliability;
Equipment Design
- Quality and Efficiency
- Competency of Operators
- Control System setup;
Effectiveness of Maintenance setup
- Quality of service
- Ready availability of spare parts
- Competency of Technical Team;
Economic Cost Factors
- Capital, Operating and Fuel Costs
- Maintenance/ Spare Parts costs
- Salaries of Skilled Operators.
Figure 1 shows the types of equipment enabled
solutions for a range of various daily industrial site
operations; complemented with a typical working
envelope for the various potential equipment with
respect to the suitability of the task for various
optimum site operations. Effective equipment
management include knowledge on equipment
efficiency and site characteristics; complemented
by the economics of cost savings via fleet
optimisation, life cycle planning and the setup of
preventive maintenance during their usage.
NEW FRONTIERS IN EQUIPMENT FLEET
AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY MANAGEMENT
Some of the recent proven innovative energy
efficiency technology successfully used in
industrial fleet transport is concisely depicted in
Figure 2. The aim of effective fleet management
is to provide real-time detailed asset information
for any selected industrial site operation so that
top management can quickly carry out energy
efficiency reviews on the operating efficiency for
all the various site equipment used from anywhere
in the world. Equipment productivity is defined
as the monitoring of their on-going production
complemented with the management of their
corresponding jobsite efficiency.
The productivity solution enables industrial
development management to specifically control
production in real-time to meet the specifications
as required by the customer via the use of highprecision technology to increase the accuracy
and efficiency in the monitoring phase of payload
information collection (Figure 3). Some of the
benefits of on-line real-time equipment monitoring
are:
Figure 1: Types
of equipment
and their
corresponding
specifications
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