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Life cycle management – In support of aging assets Facing new operational challenges
The expanding world fleet operates in an uncertain environment, with ever tougher competition and increasing price pressures, which puts the spotlight on safe and cost-effective ship operation. This requires a partner able to maintain the new, more advanced vessels as well as keeping the aging fleet operating safely, more efficiently, and up-to-date to stricter standards. Off-hire must be mitigated or prevented. This leaflet presents ABB Marine and Crane Services’ ‘Life Cycle Management’ offering which can help to extend the life of a vessel and keep it compliant with new marine regulations.
As a ship’s electrical plant ages, it becomes imperative that a plan needs to be in place to ensure that the equipment, and not only the critical equipment, is supportable. To this end, ABB has devised a series of life cycle services that protect the operation of your plant or systems, called life cycle management (LCM). Why do we think this is important? For many shipping companies, the implication of not managing their assets can be costly, in some cases costing tens of thousands of pounds through operational downtime. Yet many companies are blind to the benefits offered by managing equipment obsolescence. Adopting a comprehensive LCM plan not only prevents critical equipment from having a disruptive lifecycle but it also avoids premature replacement. LCM thinking reduces the real cost of maintenance and makes equipment and asset performance more predictable. LCM therefore helps to direct resources and capital investment to address the more critical issues.
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Certain products, like transformers, do not have a life cycle map. They are simply replaced at the end of their useful life. But other electrical equipment, like variable-speed drives (VSD), rotating machines (motors and generators), automation, switchgear and protection relays can be mapped throughout their entire life cycle. One of the most efficient ways to improve productivity and to Life cycleprocess management maximize uptimemodel is to establish a contract which can Supporting the life cycle is a life cycle management include a combination of audit individual services such as training, model (LCMM). It identifies four-phases comprising “active”, technical support and preventive and corrective maintenance. “classic”, “limited” and “obsolete”.
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Reduced environmental impact During purchasing the “active” aand “classic” phase,anthe complete life Before drive, ABB offers energy appraisal cycle serviceswhich – from product selection and dimensioning, to determine applications can benefit from the use of installation andoperation commissioning, preventive and corrective drives. During and maintenance, tuning of the drive maintenance, remote monitoring and intelligent diagnostics, maximizes its energy savings. Additionally, when the drive life technical support, ABB upgrade retrofit, and cycle is complete, can and ensure that replacement the drive is disposed recycling plus training and learning – are available. A product of in a way that meets all local environmental regulations. in the “classic” phase will not be actively promoted by the sales team but will still enjoy comprehensive support.
diagnosing and rectifying faults. In short, investing in Life Cycle Management, through ABB’s Life Cycle Management programme keeps your vessel upto-date and working with the latest technologies and/or upgrades.
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During the “limited” stage the equipment is no longer available for purchase. The services offered are limited. Spare parts, maintenance and repair services are available as long as materials can be obtained. In the “obsolete” phase, the equipment is not available. ABB cannot guarantee availability of services for technical reasons or within reasonable cost.
ABB Limited Hareness Road Altens Industrial Estate AB12 3LE, Aberdeen United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 1224 592123 Fax: +44 (0) 1224 592690 Email: abb.service@gb.abb.com the timing of the part replacements plus all other maintenance related actions. The model also helps the www.abb.com customer when deciding about upgrades, retrofits and replacements.
By proactively helping customers manage their electrical assets, failures and subsequent vessel downtime can be Maximizing return on investment avoided. Migration to current technology can often be phased At the heart of ABB’s services is its drive life cycle to suit vessel dockings and customer budgets. management model. All services available for ABB low drives are planned Life voltage cycle management reportaccording to this model. For customers it is easy to see which available at The output of a life cycle appraisal is theservices life cycleare management which phase. report (LCMR) which follows the same layout as the LCMM
Notes: We reserve the right to make technical changes or modify the contents of this Professional management of the drive’s life cycle maximizes document without prior notice. With regard to purchase orders, the agreed the return any ABB investment in ABB voltage whatsoever drives. for particulars shallon prevail. does not accept anylow responsibility potential errors or possible lack of information in this document.
thus enabling you to quickly identify the status of your Drive specific maintenance schedules are also based on equipment. It provides an easy overview to help you determine this four-phase model. Thus, a customer knows what level of support is needed on existing installations.precisely It covers the entire scope of supply of ABB products and systems from ABB’s Extended Automation System 800xA distributed control system through to low and medium voltage drives, generators, AVRs and switchgear (components). ABB drive life cycle management model
Active - The drive, with complete life cycle services, is available for purchase.
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- Spare part, maintenance and repair - The drive, with complete life cycle services, is available for plant extensions. services are available as long as materials can be obtained.
Complete life cycle services To ensure the availability of complete life cycle services, a drive must be in the Active or Classic phase. A drive can be kept in the Active or Classic phase by upgrading, retrofitting or replacing.
- ABB cannot guarantee availability of life cycle services for technical reasons or within reasonable cost.
Limited life cycle services Caution! A drive entering the Limited or Obsolete phase has limited repair options. This may result in unpredictable process downtime. To avoid this possibility, the drive should be kept in the Active or Classic phase.
Power and productivity TM a better world Examples of life cycle services are: selection and dimensioning, installation and commissioning, preventive and corrective for maintenance, remote services, spare part services, ABB follows a four-phase model for managing drive life cycles, which brings enhanced customer support and improved efficiency. training and learning, technical support, upgrade and retrofit, replacement and recycling.
ABB Service - Marine: Life cycle management factfile/May 2012
Life cycle audit LCM starts with a life cycle audit (LCA). The output of the audit is a life cycle map which identifies the life cycle status of the electrical plant as a whole or of individual components within the electrical distribution of the vessel.