Critical Spares Who Needs Them and When?

Australian Gas Turbines Conference

30th October 2013

Agenda

• Definition

• Strategy

• Types of spares

• Factors to consider

• Equipment / spares management

• Determination of criticality

• Spare levels

• Spares Identification

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Critical Spares Who Needs Them and When?

• To answer the first part is easy

Everyone who operates a system that has to perform when

required will have critical spares

• The second half, now that’s the difficult part!

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But First - Definition

• All parts of a system can be

critical unless redundancy is built

into the design

• One definition is :

“A part that if not available when

required results in the loss of

production, power generation or

endangers peoples lives or

seriously damages the

environment”

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Two Extreme Maintenance Strategies

Conservative

Run till it drops

Most

companies fall

somewhere in

between

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Strategy Affected by

• Contracts in place

• Type of equipment

• Fuels used

• Maintenance Strategy

• Skills availability

• Spares availability

• Geographic location

• Age of plant

Not static – review ever 2 years

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Types of Maintenance and Repair

• Breakdown

• Routine

• Planned

• Preventative

• Predictive

• Corrective

• Design Out/Elimination Maintenance

• Total Production Maintenance

• Contracted Out Maintenance

• Cannibalisation7

Types of Spare Parts

Commissioning

Spare parts

Initial Spare

parts (1st year)

Operating Spare parts (2 year rolling)

Me

an

Fa

ilure

Ra

te h

(t)

Operating Time

Capital Insurance and Critical

Outage

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Where do you Start – Original Procurement and

Build

• Due Diligence

• Fleet data

• Operating history

• Number of similar units in fleet

• Availability required

• Storage facilities

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Other Factors to Consider

• Assessment of the whole system

• Identify redundancy

• Cost of holding spares – 20 to 40 %

of purchase price per year

• Maintenance of the spare part

• Change of operation

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Equipment /Spares Management

• Implement full Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) to high risk components– Covered in standard SAE JA1011, Evaluation Criteria for RCM

Processes

• Identify all failure modes for each component

• Develop detailed monitoring & inspection test plans specific to each component

• Identifying equipment risk through reliability based inspection is the first step toward this

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Determination Criticality

• Review history of failed components for the individual

plant and across the fleet

• Review OEM Manuals

• Talk to the Plant Engineers

• Check PID

• Review supply chain

• Component availability

• Risk assessment for mechanical and electrical systems

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Likelihood Questions

• Age of component?

• Are there damage processes and what is the likelihood?

• Rapid unpredictable failure likely?

• How good is the inspection?

• How good is the maintenance?

• How well is it operated?

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Consequence Questions

• Extent of damage to other equipment?

• Part availability?

• Length of repair time?

• Safety hazard to personnel?

• Potential loss of production ?

• Cost to repair or replace?

• Potential damage to environment?

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Total Risk

• Total Risk is defined as the likelihood versus

consequence

• The risk profile can then be generated as a plot of the

risk for each piece of equipment or area

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Distribution of Risk for a Frame Unit

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Distribution of Risk for an Aero-derivative Unit

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Likelihood versus Consequences

• Frame Unit - GE Frame 9

• Aero-derivative Unit - GE

LMS100

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Maintenance / Critical Spares – Reliability – Failure

Rates

• Assume a constant failure rate

• With a constant failure rate the reliability is based on the exponential

distribution –

� � � exp��

• Failure rate (λ) reciprocal is the mean time between failure (MTBF)

� �� �1

�

• The survival probability time is given by using

tr � 1/� x ln(1/R(tr))

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Maintenance Spares – Levels

• To determine maximum stock level required is given by

= λ +K√λ

λ = average consumption/failure rate per year

K = a factor depending on service level required

• Minimum stock is given by

= K√λ

• Should be reviewed - approximately every 2 years

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Example Effect of Various MTBF on Spares

Service Level/

Reliability

75% 90% 95% 99%

K Factor 0.7 1.3 1.7 2.3

MTBF λ +K√� λ +K√� λ +K√� λ +K√�

0.75 month 19 22 23 26

1.5 months 12 13 15 16

2 months 8 10 11 12

3 months 6 7 8 9

1 year 2 3 3 4

10 years 1 1 1 1

100 years 1 1 1 1

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Spare Parts Identification

• Depending on the model, year of manufacture and any

service bulletins applicable the correct part number may

have changed. The OEM spare parts manual details how

the system is structured

• The OEM manual structure is normally based on flange

to flange

TURB9EA2##/BA05A/0512 – 112E1407G016

Gas Turbine

Type/Model

Unit Number

Section Number Subsection Number

Article Number

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Outside the Gas Turbine/ Balance of Plant

• The identification system relays on tag numbers which

are referred to on the process line diagrams

• Reference then has to be made to the manufacturers

operating manual for each component

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Outage Spares –

• Planned Maintenance - regular inspection of the

combustion and hot gas path parts of the gas

turbine

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Frame Hours Starts

CI 12000 450

HGP 24000 900-1200

Major

Inspection

48000 2400

Aero Derivative Hours

Inspection and Blade

wash

2000 -4000

Annual Inspection 8000

Hot Section Overhaul 25000

Full Overhaul 50000

Typical A/B Inspection Consumable Packages

Qty Description Part # Delivery (weeks)

24 Hexagon Socket Head

bolt

HTMA200312P0013 16

1 Packet Welding

Electrode

HZN 403494P0250 6

1 Welding Wire HTCZ401077P0003 9

2 Packet of shims GMD5246056R001 12

2 Gasket GMD0924574P0001 16

• 28 line items

• 131 components

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C Inspection Consumable Package

• Broken down into six parts :

– C inspection package

– C inspection bolting package

– C inspection compressor spares

– C inspection consumables

– C inspection MTS consumables

– Noble parts assembly material

• Total number of line items 708

• Longest lead time 34 weeks

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Critical Spares and Integrity Management

Equipment Integrity

Management

ActivitiesProcurement

Operation

Engineering

Inspection

Maintenance

ProcessesPolicies

Standards

Record practices

Procedures

Control

Disciplines Involved Everybody

OrganisationTraining

Competencies

Structure

People

Succession

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Main Benefit of Critical Spares Review

Cost of

unplanned

outage or

failure

Cost of

undertaking

review and

holding

necessary

parts

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Any Questions?

Remember look after your spares!

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