Monitoring of critical machinery in the pharmaceutical industry
On October 6, 2016, Francisco Ballestero published [...]
On October 6, 2016, Francisco Ballestero published an article in Pharmatech. In it, he analyzes the monitoring systems in the machinery of the pharmaceutical industry from a predictive maintenance strategy.
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The pharmaceutical industry is joining the new maintenance management models that have already proven successful in sectors such as power generation, oil & gas, process industry and others.
The new maintenance philosophies pursue the optimization of processes to obtain maximum availability and reliability of productive assets at minimum cost. Among all these philosophies, Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM [1], Reliability Centered Maintenance) stands out today. RCM advocates that whenever a machine is monitorable, the optimal maintenance strategy will be condition-based maintenance (CBM or PdM); if it is not possible to apply CBM, then maintenance at fixed intervals or at failure would be considered. Understand that "monitorable" means that it is technically possible to monitor the condition of the machine and, from an economic point of view, the investment is justified.
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