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Sustainability & refining: MERIT delivers sustained asset value
How can businesses focus on sustainability and increase the reliability of assets, in addition to improving availability and optimising maintenance costs?
A fundamental part of Shell Global Solutions’ maintenance and reliability programme is business risk management, facilitated via an holistic approach to asset management to maximise value creation.
In the highly competitive global manufacturing sector, finding ways to improve a company’s bottom line can often mean the difference between success or failure. So, if a programme consistently delivers sustainable high performance in availability, along with average reductions in annual maintenance costs of 25%, it would raise considerable interest.
MERIT asset management service from Shell Global Solutions has been delivering such benefits for many years now. “MERIT’s central focus is on sustainability,” says Joost Allebrandi, Managing Consultant in Operations and Asset Management.
“Cost reductions are, of course, a vital focus of any attempt to improve manufacturing performance. But if the focus is solely on this piece of the jigsaw puzzle, then the results are usually limited to the short term.”
“MERIT is all about developing sustainable benefits to focus on improving plant reliability and the embedding of improved business and work processes and systems into the company,” he says.
“It typically increases assets’ reliability, improves availability and optimises maintenance costs,” explains Mr. Allebrandi.