Many industrial and non-industrial organisations rely on complex production and supporting assets. In order to meet the demands of multiple performance benchmarks and stakeholders, it is essential that such assets are optimally designed, operated and maintained. Within this context, Royal HaskoningDHV has developed a Risk-based Design and Maintenance solution that optimises your assets so that they help you to meet demanding goals for production, safety, quality, and finances.

The challengeThe design, operation and maintenance of production and supporting assets involves a number of key factors:■ determination of reliability (incl. redundancy) and

availability goals■ minimisation of lifecycle costs■ determination and justification of maintenance efforts■ clarification of required spare parts (to meet reliability

and availability goals)■ SLAs (e.g. required response times) with all involved

parties (internal and external)

Optimising and respecting all these factors requires a clear and systematic approach. It also requires an integral approach. For instance, in many organisations design is a

separate process to operation and maintenance, whereas the two need to be considered as a single and interlinked process.Moreover, design choices and maintenance activities are not goals in themselves, but a route to achieving business and strategic objectives. Thus all choices should take into account failure risks and balance them against performance goals and mitigating efforts/costs.Only when this is successfully achieved will you maximise business performance.

Our solutionOur solution is built around a number of key analytical, technical and behavioural steps:

1. Assessment of the current situation and the route to improvementFirst we assess your current design and maintenance philosophy along with your risk appetite (risk matrix), vision for the future, and overall ‘as-built’ documentation. This requires strategic and tactical information of assets e.g asset break down structure, functional requirements, system composition and performance indicators. The assessment is followed by an advice on the best route to improving design and maintenance performance and professionalizing the required processes.

Risk-based Design and Maintenance

Achieve your business objectives by optimizing your assets

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2. Update and complete as-built information The asset inventory is comprehensively assessed and includes a detailed inventory of the as-built situation (detailed asset break down structure), drawings and schemes. We review what is already there and identify gaps to be filled before going to the next step.

3. RAMS analysisRAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) is the technical methodology at the heart of our solution. Its two core functions are to ensure and show that an asset meets its performance criteria:■ make and justify design choices ■ identify and justify maintenance and inspection activities

RAMS incorporates various assessment techniques. Some techniques require workshop sessions and others involve the preparation of a system model and calculations. The outcome of these methods is insight into system performance and possible improvements.

4. Learn and improveThis covers aspects such as failure analysis and change management, but also involves training employees to understand and master RAMS analyses themselves. This approach recognises that soft skills go hand-in-hand with technical expertise if you are to motivate staff and create buy-in for change and continuous improvement across the organisation.

The outcomeOur approach to Risk-based Design and Maintenance is always tailored to your precise wishes, requirements

and circumstances. The result will be the optimal design, operation, and maintenance of assets, along with more effective organisational structures and conditions for continuous improvement.

Royal HaskoningDHV has extensive experience of working for industrial and public clients, including the Oil & Gas sector and the Process & Chemical industry. Below is an short selection of projects where the risk based approach is applied to optimize the design and/or maintenance.■ South Stream Offshore Pipeline (South Stream Offshore

Pipeline)■ Maintenance programme water treatment and water

management assets (Waterboard Rijnland)■ Helwin Beta offshore wind energy Converter Station

(Heerema/Siemens/TenneT)■ Lock complex IJmuiden (Dutch water and road authority)■ FPSO ship (Intecsea).■ Infraspeed Program Management for High Speed Rail

(Infraspeed)

ContactPeter van Steenderen T +31 6 2909 8339;peter.van.steenderen@rhdhv.com

François van Ekkendonk T +31 6 1509 3196francois.van.ekkendonk@rhdhv.com