Application of world-class tools for managing maintenance in cement companies based on the methodology MCC Aplicación de herramientas de clase mundial para la gestión de mantenimiento en empresas cementeras basado en la metodología MCC

Abstract

Background: The category of world class maintenance is based on methodologies such as Reliability Centered Maintenance, which helps to determine speciic maintenance actions, identifying fails and the procedures for ixing them. Objectives: In this work the design of a framework was proposed to implement management tools for maintenance of cement companies, applying the methodology of the MCC. Method: A descriptive and ield research was developed, in which it was considered as a unit of analysis the National Cement Factory, Plant Tachira in Venezuela. To do this, the data collection technique veriied written evidence and an array of categories was the selected instrument. Result: It was diagnosed that the maintenance management in the company does not consider the basic principles of asset reliability. Conclusions: The stages of application of the tools of reliability were identiied: criticality analysis, analysis of failure modes and effects, and root cause analysis, through compliance three contentive phases in a system involving inputs, processes and results in each phase; to i nally indicate the guidelines in the application of the above-mentioned tools.