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Featured Article - SASREF wins 2017 Reliability Program of the Year
Saudi Aramco Shell refinery (SASREF) in Jubail, Saudi Arabia won the prestigious 2017 Reliability Program of the Year award for their reliability program. Performance benefits were realized in emergency maintenance and mechanical availability, both of which jumped two quartiles. This added some real value with a 13.5% reduction in maintenance cost from the total budget, including overhead, and a 38% reduction in cost-avoidance bad actors, reducing maintenance costs an additional 3.2% this year.
All of this couldn’t have been achieved without hard work and a successful reliability program. “It starts with our vision to safely achieve best-in-class performance, maximizing profitability, with commitment to our people and community,” said Yahya Hamdi, reliability engineer, maintenance strategy, at SASREF. “We have four core values: people, safety, ethics and excellence. We always start with people.”
The Reliability Program of the Year was created to recognize companies that best demonstrate the effective application of integrated maintenance best practices, including the leadership in implementing a “best in class” reliability program, the application of reliability-based technologies and ultimately the creation of quantifiable returns. While many plants are considered, the detailed evaluation process ultimately leads to a single facility that is recognized annually as the Reliability Program of the Year.
You can find further information on the Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery reliability program in the Control Magazine article here.
To hear more about Saudi Aramco Shell refinery Reliability Program of the Year, they will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming MARCON conference in March 2018.
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