Guidelines - std10520016

DOE-STD-1052-93

3.4 Guidelines

3.4.1 Selection of Equipment

A detailed master list of equipment, components, and structures to be included in the

maintenance program should be developed by a maintenance technical support and

owner/operator team. The master list should be adjusted as dictated by experience,

cost effectiveness, and maintenance history records of equipment performance. The

following should be considered for selecting equipment to be included in the

program:

a. equipment affecting personnel safety

b. equipment affecting safe and reliable plant operation

c. equipment specified in code, regulatory, or technical safety requirements

3.4.2 Procedure Preparation for Maintenance Tasks

Procedures should be developed for each piece of equipment identified in section

3.4.1. The procedures should describe the maintenance activities to be performed in

sufficient detail so that the maintenance is performed properly. DOE "Writer's Guide

for Technical Procedures" provides guidelines for writing maintenance procedures.

3.4.3 Preventive Maintenance (PM)

3.4.3.1

It is reasonable to implement PM activities for components that

demonstrate failure modes caused by "wear out" or degradation due to

application, use, time, age, and etc. The effectiveness of the program,

however, also depends on how well each scheduled activity detects

deterioration and prevents failure.

3.4.3.2

A good PM program should be an evolutionary process. It should start

with the scheduling of routine tasks done based on such items as

regulatory and technical safety requirements, codes and standards, vendor

recommendations, plant and industry experience with similar equipment,

engineering analysis of equipment performance, systematic analysis

through predictive maintenance, history records of equipment

performance, cost/benefit analysis, capacity need, and schedule use. It

should be revised as additional history and trends indicate.