Planned equipment shutdowns are often necessary inconveniences designed to ensure the long-term maintenance of a production line or a factory/plant. They create operational disruption and the day-to-day work context is definitely affected. For these reasons, the management and planning processes must be robust and efficient.
The objective is to perform various tasks in a predetermined sequence and to resume the normal course of operations as quickly as possible. STI Maintenance helps you to plan these activities and ensures coordination between the various trades that may be involved, either internally or externally, sometimes for very brief periods of time. We have extensive experience with shutdowns within key industries, so we have the required knowledge to offer support and advice with a view to optimizing the sequence of events associated with a major shutdown. Our specialties include establishing the critical path, drawing up mitigation plans and reducing downtime.
Bringing a mine online is a very expensive endeavour, so a minimum return on investment is expected. If production does not reach the desired levels for whatever reason, the processes in place may need to be reconsidered. STI Maintenance helps you come up with the right diagnosis and finds the solutions you need to optimize the reliability of your operations.
A large city in Quebec aims to adopt or update maintenance plans for its non-passenger vehicles according to use (hours of operation, mileage, periodic). STI Maintenance intervened to consult and revise the maintenance plans with the workshop managers and draw up the lists of critical parts for maintenance.
A mine produces continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It must plan a complete shutdown of its operations due to a widespread power outage that must be carried out. STI Maintenance participates in the design of the procedure to be followed in order to limit the impacts and facilitate the resumption of activities safely and as soon as possible.
The use and maintenance of drilling equipment is essential for the development of a mine. STI Maintenance was called in for reinforcement by a mining company in connection with repetitive breakages as well as a lack of anticipation of work stoppages considerably limiting the progress of the drilling.
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