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Network Services 1.1 Workshops CBM-Europe schedules 3 workshops per year (i.e. every 4 months), for networking and sharing of experiences/ case histories/ lessons learnt/ best practices regarding CBM with a pre-eminent and large group of operators and service companies. The workshops are of one-day duration and will consist of presentations, round-table updates, and facilitated discussions. Venues will be spread around Europe, dependent on member locations. Workshop presentations and other deliverables are available to members via the members’ area of the network website. Subjects cover condition-based maintenance case studies, lessons learnt, technology needs, technical standards etc. Workshops include break-out group discussions, plenary sessions and other activities where appropriate and where suggested by the meeting chairman. In certain circumstances the operators may desire private discussions. On these occasions the meeting split into break-out groups and alternative agendas will be developed. In addition, the learnings from the workshops will also provide input to the ‘best practice guidelines’ as described below. Where possible workshops will be hosted by member companies, for whom OTM will provide ‘hosting guidelines’ and administrative support (advance planning, invitations, venue and travel issues etc). Ideally a chairman who is a technical expert on the issues being discussed will be appointed by the steering committee, with responsibility for developing the agenda with OTM. Alternatively, and when appropriate, the OTM project manager will chair the meeting. 1.2 Benchmarking An annual network benchmarking exercise, aims to draw together and identify CBM best practices from across the industry, as well as providing specific performance benchmarks to individual members. Benchmarking will initially focus on one area – for example HVAC – with choice of area and benchmarking details to be agreed by network members, with more areas being added in subsequent exercises. Data gathering will take place using an electronic, on-line questionnaire. Benchmarking will take place based on data supplied and the analysed results will be reported to individual network members on an anonymised basis. Data gathering will address ‘soft’ issues (e.g. maintenance strategies, management, funding, staff skills etc) as well as ‘hard’ issues (e.g. equipment data - age, specification, location, maintenance budget allocated, downtime causes etc). The exercise will also look in detail at adequacy of planning lead times provided by CBM; e.g. use of CBM to adequately define scope of maintenance; spend on CBM for particular systems; use of smart data collection and/or reduction; how many planned maintenance hours are removed or deferred based on CBM; measurement of man hours of work planned, instigated on condition and breakdown etc. In addition to benchmark deliverables, the results of the benchmarking will also provide input to the ‘best practice guidelines’ as described in section 1.3 below. 1.3 Best Practice Guidelines CBM best practice guidelines will be developed within the network by technical workgroups drawn from within the membership. These workgroups will be co-ordinated by OTM, with support from universities to ensure an overall consistency in style and format, and will draw on material from network workshops and benchmarking. It is envisaged that an early deliverable will be a ‘maintenance strategy’ best practice document, with choice of subsequent guidelines to be decided by the network membership. |
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