From business objectives to asset-level action.
Physical Asset Management and Reliability Engineering consulting for asset-intensive organizations, connecting asset strategy, reliability, functional safety and implementation.
Direct senior involvement grounded in nearly four decades of international experience across chemical, petrochemical, oil and gas, energy and manufacturing environments.
Keep the line of sight visible.
Asset-management practices translate organizational objectives into risk-based decisions, plans and activities. Reliability engineering supplies statistical models of asset behavior to support those decisions. Together, they help balance performance, cost, opportunity and risk over the relevant time horizon.
Across the services below, the objective is to connect the analysis to the function being protected, the action proposed and the business result pursued. Methodologies are selected according to the operating context, evidence and organization’s risk-acceptance criteria.
Define the actions that protect asset value.
Maintenance and lifecycle decisions begin with the functions required, the operating context and the consequences the organization is prepared to accept.
Failure Modes & Effects Analysis
SAE J1739 · ISO 14224
Identify equipment failure modes, mechanisms and effects to define actions that reduce the associated risk. Equipment-level analyses can also provide a structured starting point for RCM.
Typical outputs
Failure-mode analyses and risk-mitigation actions.
Reliability Centered Maintenance
SAE JA1011 / JA1012 · ISO 14224
Develop maintenance strategies from functions, functional failures, failure modes, effects and consequences within the actual operating context. Connect protected functions to business objectives and align failure coding with the CMMS taxonomy.
Typical outputs
Maintenance strategies, task recommendations and a traceable basis for review as evidence or conditions change.
Asset Criticality Analysis
Risk matrix · Failure scenarios
Classify assets by the business consequences of defined failure scenarios using the organization’s calibrated risk matrix. Use that prioritization to select the appropriate depth of analysis and review it as assets or conditions change.
Typical outputs
Criticality assessments and priorities for further analysis.
Management of Change
Change governance
Define when a formal change process is required and which controls must be applied before, during and after a relevant change.
Typical outputs
Change criteria, control requirements and a structured review process.
Life Cycle Cost Analysis
IEC 60300-3-3
Compare projects, asset alternatives and proposed actions by their economic consequences over an agreed lifecycle and time horizon.
Typical outputs
Lifecycle cost comparisons and an economic basis for selecting alternatives.
Maintenance Optimization
Existing plans · Meridium APM ASM
Review existing preventive and predictive maintenance plans to establish whether each activity is justified and whether its interval suits the failure behavior and function being protected.
Typical outputs
Justified maintenance plans and recommendations on activities and intervals.
Turn operating evidence into defensible predictions.
Failure investigation and statistical modeling help explain what has happened and assess future equipment and system performance. The strength of the conclusion depends on the evidence available.
Root Cause Analysis
PrOACT · Failure taxonomy
Investigate an occurred problem to identify its root causes and propose corrective and preventive actions, including action at other locations exposed to comparable conditions. Link physical causes to the relevant CMMS failure taxonomy where applicable.
Typical outputs
Documented causal analysis and corrective or preventive action recommendations.
Reliability Analytics & RAM
Distributions · Production Weibull · RAM
Characterize failure and restoration behavior through statistical distributions, Weibull approaches and Reliability, Availability & Maintainability modeling. Evaluate equipment and system performance with explicit assumptions and evidence limitations.
Typical outputs
Reliability models, performance estimates and comparisons of operating or configuration alternatives.
Reliability Centered Spares
Capital spares · Meridium APM Spares Analysis
Use reliability-based statistical analysis to support stocking decisions for capital spares and assess appropriate replenishment points.
Typical outputs
Spares analysis and recommended replenishment criteria.
Connect hazards to sustaining actions.
Hazard identification, required risk reduction, safety-function assessment and proof testing are connected through the applicable functional-safety lifecycle.
Process Hazard Analysis
IEC 61882 · IEC 61511 lifecycle
Identify and describe hazards associated with industrial operations through HAZOP and, where appropriate, approaches such as What If. Retain a visible connection between the scenarios analyzed and the business objectives being protected.
Typical outputs
Structured hazard scenarios, consequences, safeguards and recommendations.
Layer of Protection Analysis
IEC 61511-3 · SIL assessment
Assess scenarios arising from PHA to determine the required risk reduction and, where applicable, the SIL requirement for a safety instrumented function.
Typical outputs
Scenario assessments and required RRF / SIL values for the relevant SIF.
Safety Instrumented Systems
IEC 61508 / IEC 61511 · Proof testing
For existing installations, assess whether safety instrumented functions meet their required risk reduction and SIL criteria. Define the proof-testing strategies needed to sustain that performance over time.
Typical outputs
SIF performance assessments and proof-testing maintenance strategies.
Make the engineering usable in practice.
Technology, work processes and people determine whether a technically sound recommendation becomes sustained performance. These capabilities support implementation across the service areas.
Organizational Culture & Change
People · Processes · Technology
Address the organizational conditions that enable asset-management practices to work: leadership, behavior and adoption. Select the change-management approach according to the context and leadership style.
Typical outputs
Context-specific support for organizational change and adoption.
Process Safety & Sustainability
OSHA 1910.119 · Business sustainability
Integrate practices such as Management of Change, Functional Safety and RCA within the relevant Process Safety Management context, while retaining the broader environmental, health and safety perspective of business sustainability.
Typical outputs
An integrated view of asset-management practices and the relevant PSM / EHS objectives.
Meridium APM Services
Configuration · Data · Decision processes
Support the software structures and workflows needed to put asset-management practices into operation, drawing on extensive hands-on Meridium APM experience.
Typical outputs
Data Loaders, queries, metrics and scorecards, dashboards, graphs and datasets; support for Calibration Management, Asset Health Management, Asset Strategy Optimization, Mobile Proof Testing and Policy Designer.
Training & Capability Development
Methodologies · Practices · APM
Provide training in the methodologies, practices and software capabilities covered here. Adapt the work to the organization’s requirements, maturity and current practices, with on-site delivery preferred and remote delivery also available.
Typical outputs
Tailored technical training in on-site or remote formats.
Defined around the decision and the available evidence.
Services can support existing facilities and new projects (brownfield and greenfield), with the applicability of each practice established for the specific engagement. The SIS assessment described above is directed at existing installations.
For reliability analytics, capital-spares analysis and SIS assessment, consulting execution depends on suitable supporting software being available, such as Meridium APM. The applicable tool, input data and deliverables are confirmed when framing the work. Training can also address the underlying theory.
The methodology references identify the basis of the work. Anábasis’ explicit alignment of analyses with strategic business objectives is an additional consulting practice; it is not presented as a built-in feature of every methodology or software module.
The broader approach and its applications.
Accountability is part of the engineering.
No results, no fees.
Bring the decision, the evidence available and the result you need. Together we define the scope, baseline and method for verifying the value delivered. Previously agreed logistics are the exception to the no-results, no-fees model.
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