Our service can start with damage and breakdown investigation when main or auxiliary machinery shows breakdowns, inadequate engine performance or other operational issues. Our service can include review of available operating data history and available performance data; hence, continuous collection and analysis of event history by the operator makes investigation and root cause analysis easier and can help pinpoint influencing parameters or factors at an early stage during the investigation.
Asset integrity and asset lifecycle management
Machinery failure analysis
Technical support for failure analysis of main and auxiliary machinery.
Ship operators, OEMs, power plants, wind generator operators, insurance companies and oil and gas companies may require machinery failure analysis when main or auxiliary machinery breaks down, shows inadequate engine performance or develops recurring operational issues.
Technical basis for investigation and assessment
The service provides technical support for understanding machinery condition, damage development and failure behaviour in the actual operating context. This creates a clearer basis for technical investigation and follow-up, allowing issues to be linked to interacting underlying causes, lacking operating history, inappropriate design details or solutions. The service is part of our expertise area Asset integrity and asset lifecycle management.
Challenges
When machinery problems affect both condition and operation, it becomes harder to assess and plan repair needs and prioritise maintenance.
Interacting causes may complicate fault isolation
Operational and performance issues are often caused by a combination of conditions that may seem harmless on their own. This makes faults harder to isolate and can complicate the investigation, repair decisions and maintenance follow-up.
Inadequate data collection often hampers the investigation
Continuous collection and analysis of performance data and event history by the operator is preferred because it makes the investigation and root cause analysis easier. When that basis is incomplete, it creates uncertainty about the influence of those factors.
Design may not fit actual application
Some issues are linked to machinery design or design criteria, rather than to day-to-day operation alone. If the design is poor or unsuitable for the intended application, the same problem may recur unless the underlying cause is addressed.
Failure may spread across systems
A breakdown may not only affect the failed part itself. It can also influence related operating systems, maintenance intervals and machinery performance, which makes planning of follow-up actions more complex.
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