The importance of carrying out preventive maintenance of the water treatment plant

Preventive maintenance is one of the main pillars of comprehensive maintenance. Preventive maintenance includes a set of activities and procedures carried out by the Maintenance Department to maintain all parts of the water plant in good operating condition. And to try to avoid sudden breakdowns and defects, by addressing any deficiencies. If any, before it reaches a state of breakdown or failure, and to make the assets in a good operational condition. At all times, or to return it to a good normal state when it breaks down. In order to maintain its continuity of work, within a specific system and at a reasonable cost.

Benefits of performing preventive maintenance

• The plant remains ready to produce water according to the required specifications.
• Maintaining the quantity, quality, and quality of products and safety and health requirements.
• Protect workers and property from any dangers.
• Preserving the environment.
• Reducing downtime (machine downtime).
• You are not having to repeat repair work.
• Reduce the cost of repairs.

Preventive maintenance steps

This maintenance is carried out periodically and according to a set time plan determined by the station manufacturers or by the experienced technicians who carry out the maintenance, with the condition of all parts reviewed and inspected to allow them to continue working without being exposed to any sudden stop as much as possible.

Regular maintenance must be performed on time and accurately.

A good preventive maintenance regimen is the basis for effective maintenance. The degree of success of the preventative maintenance program depends on achieving the least time for breakdowns, as well as the lowest cost for the repair, and therefore there must be a kind of balance between corrective maintenance and preventive maintenance. Preventive maintenance enables us to prevent malfunctions, detect them before they happen, and fix them.

Preventive maintenance operations are carried out on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. As the virtual periodic inspection of the parts and units of the machine is carried out, cleaning, lubrication, and lubrication operations are carried out, and some parts are changed and replaced if required.

The importance of preventive maintenance

Preventive maintenance helps achieve the following:

Overall Equipment Effectiveness

Maintenance helps to reduce the breakdowns of machines, equipment, and equipment and make them to the minimum limits. It is keen to achieve the overall effectiveness of the equipment, maintain the quality of products, and make the output within the limits of the required quantities and low costs. As it makes the production processes more convenient, more efficient, and less costly.

Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty

Good maintenance reduces downtime and interruption in production processes. This leads to the organization fulfilling its obligations to customers in terms of transportation and delivery on time.

High-Quality Products

Good maintenance leads to a high quality of the product by conforming to the specified specifications.

Breakdown Avoidance

Continuous maintenance prevents sudden major breakdowns that lead to downtime.

Prolong Useful Life (life cycle)

Good maintenance extends the useful life of machinery, equipment, and supplies makes optimal use of them, and lowers the overall costs of the company.

Operation and maintenance problems in the water treatment plant

There are many types of problems that can occur during the operation of the water treatment plant, and we mentioned them before in a previous article. which you can keep to a minimum when performing preventative maintenance.

The objectives of preventive maintenance are achieved by the following methods

1. The necessity to follow the manufacturer’s instructions regarding operation and maintenance work.
2. Maintenance: Performing maintenance operations on machines and equipment to prevent breakdowns. As well as entire units after operating a certain number of hours or a specified number of products. The period of operation is determined based on the manufacturer’s recommendation, and the recommendations of the engineering examination to carry out maintenance and repair operations whenever necessary to return these devices and equipment to the design situation.
3. Organizing parts replacement operations: repairing worn-out and broken parts or replacing them with good ones. Carrying out the necessary repairs, or early treatment of the vinegar, and replacing worn out or damaged parts. A lot of devices and equipment in the production units suffer from a decrease in their efficiency annually, and their breakdowns increase. Thus their maintenance costs rise. Such equipment must be replaced to increase production efficiency and reduce costs.
4. Inspection: Carrying out the normal daily routine inspection and inspection of cleaning, lubricating, lubricating, etc., of machines, equipment, and supplies to ensure the safety of their work and to address any malfunction, if any.
5. Cleaning: Cleaning is one of the very important operations, and it is considered one of the main activities that govern the efficient operation of production units according to the original designs. Daily cleaning of machines and removal of dust and dirt allows for early detection of leaks, wear and tear of parts or cracks in some of them…etc.

The economic impact of preventative maintenance

The more reliance on preventive maintenance, the lower the maintenance and maintenance costs. As well as lower the losses in production as a result of continuous and repeated stops.

Plan of Preventive Maintenance

The preventive maintenance plan means all the necessary steps to be taken to develop an integrated preventive maintenance system for any station. This plan differs from one factory to another. A preventive maintenance plan for a restaurant’s water treatment plant differs from the plan for a hotel’s water treatment plant.

Accordingly, the following must be taken into account:

• Compliance with the station’s instructions related to maintenance and operation.
• Applying maintenance correctly, with the necessary and sufficient amount, and not exaggerating it, because this raises its cost without justification. The increase in the useful life of the station may not be equal to the increase in the cost of redundant maintenance.
• Do not neglect the maintenance of the station. Because the savings in maintenance expenses may lead to breakdowns in it that may cost more than the value of the savings resulting from the reduction of preventive maintenance work.
• The need to develop maintenance programs and the need for this program to have the necessary dynamism and flexibility. In the sense that this program changes with the change in the working and operating conditions of the station on which preventive maintenance is to be performed.
• Reconsider the preventive maintenance program when moving from one work method to another. Such as moving from the continuous form of production to the intermittent production form.
• The longer the operating time of the station (in the event of an increase in demand for it). The greater the need to change its maintenance program. Raise the degree of maintenance for it to maintain and keep it always in good condition. Ensure that it works continuously so that it does not stop working and stop production, which leads to non-compliance with delivery dates, Hence the dissatisfaction of customers.
• In the event that the station operates on a seasonal basis. The maintenance work must be appropriate to the changing operating conditions and the length of the downtime.