Coding equipment in a plant
Coding equipment in a plant
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hi,
i am young engineer and needs to know how to code equipment in a plant for maintenance and inventory purposes .the plant has a water treatment plant, cooling towers ,distillery, loading bay, yeast plant ,waste water treatmnet and raw material storage. how do you start it and what is the standard way of doing it since i am getting confused . My boss has given be these job and no one had ever done it .thanks alot
i am young engineer and needs to know how to code equipment in a plant for maintenance and inventory purposes .the plant has a water treatment plant, cooling towers ,distillery, loading bay, yeast plant ,waste water treatmnet and raw material storage. how do you start it and what is the standard way of doing it since i am getting confused . My boss has given be these job and no one had ever done it .thanks alot
Dickens K. Seroney (B. Tech in Chem and process eng.)Moi,Kenya
Planning and development engineer.





RE: Coding equipment in a plant
Even if you never finish, it's a pretty good way to get familiar with the plant. That may have been the actual intent.
I'm sure there are commercial programs sold for this purpose, but a homemade spreadsheet could do a satisfactory job of it, too, and will teach you more.
Oh. Yeah. Eventually, you should be able to answer manager type questions like how much it would cost to replace everything, what equipment will need regular maintenance in the next month, what parts will be required as a minimum for that maintenance, how much it really costs to keep each machine from year to year, whether there is an upward trend in failure rate for some equipment or department, stuff like that.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Coding equipment in a plant
Area:System:Equipment-ItemNumber/Unit
Pump Station 1 = PS1, Storage Plant = SP, Compressor station = CS
Hydrocarbon Drain = HD, Firewater = FW, Multiproduct = MP
Equipment, Pump = P, Tank = T, Heat Exchanger = X, Block Valve = BV, Check Valve = BC, Control Valve = CV
Item Number 1 = 001
Parallel units are, A, B, C
Pump Station 1, FireWater System, Pump#1, Unit B
PS1:FW:P-001/B
Once you have this, it can be indexed to spare parts lists, repair orders, inspection schedules so you can do all the other good things that Mike mentions above.
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RE: Coding equipment in a plant
I am encouraged by your comments, since am now convinced that I had an idea. I had adopted these;
1.I coded each plant a number e.g. water treatment as 1
2.All equipment has been given a symbol e.g. a centrifugal /dynamic pump, while a displacement pumps as PD.
3.The fist centrifugal pump in water treatment is coded 01
4.Finally, first centrifugal pump in water treatment is coded 1-PC-01.
If distillery is coded 5 then the first displacement pump in this plant will be 5-PD-01. Would all agree with me? Thanks
Dickens K. Seroney (B. Tech in Chem and process eng.)Moi,Kenya
Planning and development engineer.
RE: Coding equipment in a plant
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RE: Coding equipment in a plant
Also, see thread378-162352
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Dickens K. Seroney (B. Tech in Chem and process eng.)Moi,Kenya
Planning and development engineer.
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