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INDUSTRIAL CONSERVATION AND ITS RELATION WITH ECOLOGY.
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TO
EDUCATORS AND INDUSTRIALISTS OF THE WORLD
INDUSTRIAL CONSERVATION AND ITS RELATION TO ECOLOGY.
Ing. Enrique Dounce Villanueva.
October 2011
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Subjects to cover.
I. Objective
II. Thinking about the concept of Maintenance.
III. Industrial Conservation.
IV. An ecosystem’s sustainability.
V. Ecology and Industrial Conservation.
V. Mexico’s manufacturing system.
VI. Manufactured product or satisfactor.
VII. Industrial Effectiveness.
VIII. Manufacturing system’s ecology.
IX. Eco technology and Industrial Conservation.
X. Manufacturing systems’ conservation.
XI. Corollary.
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Objective:
To persuade educators and industrialists at world level that we must evolve
from the current concept of “Industrial Maintenance” to “Ecologic
Management of Systems”. It is urgent and necessary to take this step since
it will allow us to apply scientifically appropriate actions for the sustainability
of our habitat, which is a, and is immersed in, a cyclic system.
This will enhance our current knowledge, which will lead us to achieve a
world manufacturing industry ever more centered in its ecology.
Let us now explain the reasoning behind this objective.
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The knowledge about this topic was rudimentary and the tasks were performed
without sound scientific basis. The results we achieved were never the expected
goals, since “things did not get fixed”, costs increased and our users would
adamantly voice their complaints.
All of the above led us to research what “Industrial Maintenance” should actually be.
Thinking about the concept of “maintenance”
Since 1939, when I started my productive life in the Mexican Army at the
Transmissions Company, I performed “maintenance” tasks, which in those days it
meant “to fix things”.
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Thinking about the concept of “maintenance”
It was then that I first perceived that I had a mistaken concept regarding what
industrial “maintenance” and its scope was and that I shared this incorrect vision with
all of us working in this area.
After many years of working and collaborating with my professional team, we finally
understood that maintenance is a branch of Conservation.
Back in civil life, working for Telefonos de Mexico (Mexican Telephone Company)
as the person responsible for the “maintenance” of the phone plant, I had the
opportunity to go to the First International Symposium on Conservation, (1975)
which took place in Stockholm, Sweden. There, I found out that, unlike other
endeavors, the IMSS (Mexican Social Security Institute) did not have a
“Maintenance Department” but a “Conservation Department” which focused mainly
on caring for the habitat.
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Industrial Conservation.
It was then that our interest in studying about Conservation was born. To start our
studies, we looked among the Natural Sciences to search for a branch that would be
useful to understand the structure and functioning inherent to human life in its
environment. We chose Biology as our study source.
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In the figure below, we can see some of the branches of Biology. Since we
want to gain in depth knowledge about live beings and their habitat, know
about their origin, evolution, behavior, interrelations, etcetera, we found
that our best source for this objective is to study Ecology.
Industrial Conservation.
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This next image shows some of the branches of Ecology. Since our study
is focused on industry, we want to take a path that will allow us to
continue our analysis centering on industrial ecology.
Industrial Conservation.
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The figure below shows some of the branches of industry. Since our
essay is directed to solve the ecologic problems caused by
manufacturing industry’s operation, we will now proceed to present the criteria resulting from our analysis about ecology and industry.
Industrial Conservation.
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Industrial Ecology is a concept developed by industrial models’ scholars to
compare the Biological System with a Industrial System.
This concept seeks to reach an equilibrium between human activity and
that of Nature, developing processes that will allow taking to sustainable
levels, human activities needed in the search for satisfactors or productive
systems. The above requires that we study them thoroughly so that we
may acquire sufficient knowledge about these topics that will allow us to
obtain their necessary sustainability.
Industrial Conservation.
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An ecosystem’s sustainability.
Sustainability actions in an ecosystem permit the species contained
within it to remain in equilibrium with the resources involved in this
symbiosis. It is essential to know the ecosystem’s structure in regard to
the matter that comprises it (animal, vegetable, and mineral) and the
service that matter provides so that we can apply to it the appropriate
sustainability activities.
An Eco System Sustainability
Eco System’s Structure
Knowledge of the quality of matter
that comprises the Eco System
Knowledge of the quality of the
service provided by the Eco System
Eco System’s Conservation
Preservation of the quality of the matter
of the Eco System
Maintenance of the quality of the
service provided by the Eco System
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Ecology and Industrial Conservation.
From our analysis up to this point, we can see that there is a close
relationship between Ecology and Industrial Conservation and that their
joint study will aid, in an important manner, the development of our
country’s manufacturing system.
Let us make a pause here in our ecologic progress to combine it with the
“General Theory of Systems”, another subject that makes it easier for us to understand what Industrial Conservation is.
The theory of systems is based on the solar system’s activity, which
functions in a cyclic manner, so that change is constant and repetitive for all
the elements that comprise it (matter, energy, life, and habitat) and which
we need to know in depth to be able to apply the necessary Sustainability tasks.
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General Theory of Systems (GTS)
System.- It is a set of matter structured of elements or parts, located within
an environment, that are orderly related among themselves while
functioning, thus contributing to reach a specific goal. Any change or variation in any of these elements will cause changes in the whole system.
Systems in general
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It is a system which accomplishes symbiosis with the environment around it
and takes from its environment through its access, the inputs it needs (matter
and/or energy).
The open system performs its process generating the service for which it
was created and expels the excess matter and/or energy through its exit,
giving it back to its environment, which is necessary for the survival of other
systems of which their environments are involved.
Environment
Environment
Process Entry Exit
Open System
GTS- Open System.
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Environment
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Environment
Closed System
GTS – Closed System.
It is hermetic to any environmental influence. A closed system cannot
interchange matter with its environment, but it can exchange energy.
Its function is to continually evaluate the Open System and inform about
the degree of disorder which it has, thus allowing to apply the actions
required to restore its equilibrium.
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Process Entry Exit
Complete Systems
Environment
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Environment
The union of an Open System with its necessary closed system is considered a
Complete System since it can function indefinitely due to the information
provided by its Closed Systems about the system’s entropy, thus using the
needed internal forces to allow the survival of the Complete System.
GTS – Complete System.
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GTS – System of Systems.
A system of systems is what we usually find in a manufacturing company
as its manufactured product or satisfactor. As an example, let us think
of an automotive company for which, all the systems that comprise a car
are represented in the figure below, - there are thousands of interrelated
complete systems, all immersed in the same environment as the product,
(Car).
Environment
Entry Exit
Environment
Environment
Process Entry Exit From other systems To other systems
Environment
Environment
Process Entry Exit From other systems To other systems
Environment
Environment
Process Entry Exit Fromf other systems To other systems
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Ambiente
Ambiente
ProcesoEntrada SalidaDe otros
sistemas
A otros
sistemas
Ambiente
Ambiente
ProcesoEntrada SalidaDe otros
sistemas
A otros
sistemas
Ambiente
Ambiente
ProcesoEntrada SalidaDe otros
sistemas
A otros
sistemas
Environment
Environment
Manufactured Product or Satisfactor.
Here we have the final product of our automotive company. As
can be seen, with this product we want to provide satisfaction to
our possible clients that comprise a specific market formed by
their wishes.
We can achieve the above by ensuring that our product, when
operating, provides its user satisfaction during all of its
average promised life cycle.
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The survival of a manufacturing company depends on its effectiveness
which can be detected through its users acceptance expressed by their
favorable opinion regarding the satisfaction they derive from the use of the
company’s products, also called satisfactors.
The Satisfactor is the foundation we must always keep in mind and we
must base on it the solution to conservation problems. If our manufactured
Satisfactor is operating right, the manufacturing company is functioning
well.
Industrial Effectiveness.
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A product is formed by several material parts rationally structured to achieve a
predetermined objective.
Let us imagine a light bulb manufacturing company designing a product,
comprised by materials such as tungsten, glass, copper, sealing adhesive,
etcetera. Each of these elements has its own characteristics, and the whole is
structured to achieve a specific objective, which, in this case, is to provide
illumination with a quality defined by the market targeted.
Interrelated Matter
Product’s Analysis
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Let us now imagine approximately what happens when a light bulb is connected to
an electrical outlet:
An intense electrical current goes through a filament which causes it to become
incandescent, giving off light. To avoid the burning of the filament, the set of these
materials is placed into a high vacuum glass bulb.
We can now see clearly that the product has become a system. An energy
movement is immediately produced within it, going from electronic to thermal and
then to luminous energy, among others.
Internal operation of the product
1.Glass bulb .
2.High vacuum.
3.Support wires for filament.
4.Conductor wires.
5.Metal fitting.
1
2 3
4
4
5
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The light bulb, as a unit, is the product manufactured by the company,
which, in turn, guarantees that the light bulb will work as an Illuminating
System.
The light bulb remains idle and at the disposition of the final user until the
time it is required to provide illuminating service. From this moment
onward, the product becomes a system, that is, it becomes a Satisfactor.
Product and System
Product in operation = System = Satisfactor
Idle Product Functioning System = Satisfactor
Working product Service obtained
Lightning
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AN INDUSTRY IS EFFECTIVE WHEN A SATISFACTOR IS BALANCED
Satisfactor
Matter Service
Industrial Effectiveness
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Industrial Effectiveness - System’s Attributes
There are two opposing forces in industrial systems, Action and Reaction.
Let us analyze each of them.
The Action.
It is comprised by the following forces:
•Entropy. It is the tendency of systems to destroy themselves by consuming
more energy than they need.
•Defects. It is the tendency of the system to destroy itself caused by the
different matters that comprise it by being structured in series, in parallel, or in
series-parallel.
•Errors. Is the tendency of the system to destroy itself, involuntarily caused
by humans during the system’s operation or conservation.
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The Reaction.
It is comprised by the following forces:
•Homeostasis
It is la tendency of systems to maintain the basic characteristics with which
they were designed.
•Feed - Back
Feed-Back is the set of reactions within a system caused by a self-serving
mechanism or by humans to accomplish that the system remain in
equilibrium.
This attributes interact according to Newton laws during the time the
system is operating.
Industrial Effectiveness – System’s Attributes
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To each action there is a corresponding opposing equal reaction to the cause
producing it. If, throughout time the forces are equal, the system remains in
equilibrium.
Industrial Effectiveness – Forces interacting in the System
If, throughout time, the forces are different, the system will cease to exist.
Errors
Defects
Entropy
Homeostasis
Feed-back
Homeostasis
Feed-back
Errors
Defects
Entropy
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Let us keep following with our light bulb example, which has been designed
to provide an optimal luminous quality if an electric current of 120 Volts is
applied to it. It will provide an acceptable luminous quality if the electrical
current applied varies between 110 and 130 VAC. These are the
parameters for our light bulb when it is working as a system.
Industrial Effectiveness – Forces within the illumination system
As time goes by, the materials become degraded, errors occur randomly and
with variable acuteness, or feedback is not applied with the appropriate
opportunity and quality, so the system ceases to exist
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Industrial Effectiveness – System’s parameters
Using a control graph, let us now apply the criteria we have already seen to an AC
generator. With this generator we are committed to our user to deliver 120 VAC as
an optimum, with a 110 VAC as a minimum variance and 130 VAC as a maximum
variance. These parameters are shown in the control graph which includes three
areas, the control area, which includes the acceptable measurements, and the
failure areas, which indicate the measurement values that are not acceptable, that
is, the death of the system. The ideal is to take the system, through sustainability, to
operate on the equilibrium of forces line, until the end of the generator’s useful life
cycle.
Control
Areal
Failure area
Failure area
Time
130 Vac
120 Vac
110 Vac
Equilibrium of forces line
Action = Reaction
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Let us suppose that at the beginning the system worked well but as time goes by, due
to the difference between Action and Reaction, it reaches a point (1) where slowly
and imperceptibly, the system starts changing its temperature, pressure, wattage,
etcetera, until there comes a time when we perceive the changes, announcing a
“Potential Failure” (point 2). At this moment, we start to do the necessary research to
know the reasons for the deviation, plan its solution, and act in order to return the
system to its equilibrium line, applying RCM criteria.
.
Industrial Effectiveness - Interaction of Action and Reaction
Control
Area
Failure area
Failure area
Time
130 VAC
120 VAC
110 VAC
1
2 a
a) Disequilibrium line Action vs. Reaction
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Industrial Effectiveness - Example
Let us suppose that you are the operator of the generator we have been describing.
At the start of the shift, you do the usual checks in the generator to take it to the
appropriate parameters so that by 8 o’clock in the morning, the machine was already
working as a system. By 10:45, the voltmeter read as 125 volts, so you decided to
decrease the system’s velocity, and it returned to its equilibrium line.
Similar situations happened at 12:50 and 13:50 hours, when you attended properly
the problems. At 14:45 you had to go far from the machine, and at 14:55 hours you
were informed about the system’s failure. Costly emergency tasks had to be
performed, with the ensuing users annoyance. Imagine a problem like this one
happening in the Bullet Train or an Airplane.
Control
Area
Failure area
Failure area
Time
130 VAC
120 VAC
110 VAC
1
2
1
2
1
2
1
2
10:45 hrs.
12:50 hrs.
13:50 hrs.
14:55 hrs.
16:00 hrs.
Failure of death of system
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In reference to the importance of systems, these are classified as:
•Vitals these are the systems that when they close down or their operation is
degraded, they can cause loss of human life or catastrophic damages.
•Important these are the systems that when they close down or their operation is
degraded, they result in considerable costs.
•Trivial these are systems that when they close down or their operation is degraded,
the situation is not important.
Industrial Effectiveness - Vital Systems
In order to avoid failures in vital or important systems, since the XIX century, man
started to develop systems capable of auto-regulation, called self-serving
mechanisms. This type of mechanism when installed within a complete system’s
environment, capture the information provided by the closed systems and perform the
necessary modifications to restore the equilibrium between action and reaction of
the complete system.
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Self-Serving mechanisms. The figure below considers that the three subsystems are working at the same time,
but Number 1 is the one in charge of the Service. When an anomaly arises, it send
an “Out of Service” message to the exchange box, which will then obtain the Service
form subsystem 2. The process is repeated in a similar way if subsystem 2 fails,
getting the service from subsystem 3.
It is useful to see that every time one of the systems fails, the system’s Dependability
only decreases, thus providing time for its rehabilitation and perennial Reliability.
VITAL SERVICE
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for service
Subsystem 2Outside of quality for
service
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Feed-Back is the set of actions and reactions that are within a system, are caused
by their characteristic adversary forces, and are governed by self-serve mechanisms
or by man to attain the goal that the system remain in equilibrium during its useful
life time.
System’s Feed-Back
System with Self-serving mechanisms and human beings
Environment
Environment
Process Entry Exit
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SERVICIO VITAL
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Fuera de calidad de servicio
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The beginning of the Manufacturing System can be related to the birth and
development of micro-businesses (Prehistory, ten thousand years ago). The
people that created them in order to obtain their vital satisfactors (clothing, living
facilities, food, etc.) were always occupied in their process but they also needed to
attend the acquisition of inputs and the sale of their product.
The topic we have thus far analyzed is now a reality. Let us think about the world net
of telecommunications comprised by systems open, closed, self-serve
mechanisms, and persons governing the different forms of electric, radial, nuclear,
etcetera energy, needed to establish quality human communication in seconds. This
happened similarly in the Manufacturing System. Let us see its birth and
development.
AN IMAGINARY EXAMPLE OF A MICRO-BUSINESS
The Manufacturing System
Suppliers Users
Inpunts Products
Process
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Due to sedentary life, the best micro-businesses started to join which gave rise
to the forming of small businesses. Their interrelation continued to obtain more
and better satisfactors, which became inputs and product that could be acquired
by both nomad and sedentary persons.
Manufacturing System.
Within this order of ideas, Micro businesses worked alone, for their own benefit and
others worked for Small businesses, and these among themselves, as well as with
clients and consumers, starting to form a net with its own life.
Micro 1
Micro 2
Micro 3
Micro 4
Suppliers Users
IMAGINARY EXAMPLE OF A SMALL BUSINESS
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MiSandMEs
Medium businesses were created in a similar way. We can now consider a
large net comprised of micros, Small and Medium businesses (MiSandMes)
integrated as complete systems with self-serve mechanisms, and persons
governing the actions and reactions of the whole.
The Industrial Firms
In developed countries, MiSandMEs provide over 99% of their Gross Internal
Product (GIP) and the rest is contributed by Big Businesses.
In Mexico, businesses are classified according to the number of employees,
and the economic sector to which they belong. For our purposes, we will use
the following classification:
Mi = Micro business from 1 to 10 employees
S = Small business from 11 to 100 employees
ME = Medium business from 101 to 250 employees
Big Businesses from 251 on
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From what we have seen so far, we can consider that any country can be
viewed as a true and living manufacturing net, comprised by its MiSandMes,
and including its Big Businesses.
No business within the system can live without an appropriate symbiosis to
the nearest environment in which it is immersed.
Viewed thus, the country also behaves as a system which imports its inputs
and exports its products, looking for progress.
Imports
(Inputs)
Exports
(Products)
Manufacturing System.
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Summarizing
To seek a better understanding, let us see the road we have followed during
this presentation:
Let us now continue with the development of Eco technology.
We started studying Ecology and proved that there is a close relationship
between Ecology and Industrial Conservation. We then moved to the
General Theory of Systems, learning their structure and operation until we
obtained the knowledge sufficient to understand the more developed systems,
integrated by self serve mechanisms and human beings. We later continued
with the creation and development of Manufacturing Systems which represent
a country’s dynamism. We also noted the importance of the country’s MiSandMes in the generation of the Gross Internal Product, (GIP).
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Eco technology.
Eco technology is composed of techniques developed to care for earth’s
habitat. Its goal is an efficient and efficacious use of energy and the
improvement of manufacturing processes.
Its application seeks the optimum and efficient use of energy and the
improvement of domestic, industrial and labor processes.
From Industrial Ecology’s point of view, Eco technology seeks to establish
industrial systems sustainable under two premises.
•Develop the input entries and product exits cycle.
•Promote energy’s efficiency through the use of energy in cascade
processes.
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Heat
Vapor
Carbon
Calcium Sulfate Waste water
Light Gas
Clay
Plaster waste
System’s Product Electriciy Centerl
Refinery
Pharmaceutical
Manufacturer
Community
Applied Ecotechnology.
Industrial Symbiotic environment
Inputs
Exit
(Products
and
Wastes)Pharmaceutical
Inputs
Manufacturing
Exit
(Products
and
wastes)
Comunidad
Inputs Exit
Inputs
Refinery
Exit
(Products
and
Wastes)
Electric Center
Exit
(Products
and
Wastes)
Inputs
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Manufacturing Industrial Ecology.
We have mentioned that an Ecosystem’s sustainability activities allow the species
contained within it to remain in equilibrium with the resources they are symbiotic with.
Let us remember our figure.
An Eco System’s
Sustainability
Eco System’s Structure
Knowledge of
Matter that integrates
Eco System
Knowledge of
Service provided
By Eco System
Eco System’s
Conservation
Preservatio of
quality of matter
of Eco System
Maintenance of
quality of services
provided by Eco System
We can conclude that we will achieve our country’s manufacturing system
sustainability, knowing in depth its structure and applying Conservation actions, and
not only maintenance.
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Industrial Conservation.
Industrial Conservation refers to every human action which, through the application of
scientific and technical knowledge, contributes to the optimal use of existing resources
in the human habitat, and promotes men and society’s integral development.
Industrial Conservation is applied to achieve sustainability for the ecologic system,
preserving the quality of matter and maintaining the quality of the service
provided by the matter.
Industrial Conservation
Preservation
(Quality of matter))
Maintenance
(Quality of service))
Industrial Conservation Branches
Let us apply these criteria to a manufactured product, for example a working light bulb,
a car, a train, etc.
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Let us remember that a working light bulb is an Illumination System and
that its sustainability will be obtained applying Conservation criteria, that
is, preserving the quality of matter and maintaining the quality of the
service.
Manufactured Product’s Conservation.
INDUSTRIAL CONSERVATION
To preserve the quality of matter
To maintain the quality of the service
Branches of Industrial Conservation
Let us now analyze what preservation is.
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Preservation refers to the actions to avoid the degrading of an object
through applying preventive measures to the main deterioration elements.
Preserving.
Conservation for the Manufactured Product.
Example for Preservation activities:
• Lubrication.
• Paint.
• Cleaning.
• Substitution of elements.
• Water proofing.
• Etc.
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Maintenance refers to human activities to guarantee a Service within an expected
quality.
Maintaining.
Conservation for the Manufactured Product.
Control
area
Failure area
Failure area
time
P
F System’s failure or death
Examples for Maintenance activities:
Important and trivial items
•Programmed restoration for components.
• Programmed replacement for components.
• Search for failures in closed systems.
Vital items.
• Electronic monitoring.
• RCM application (potential failure “P”).
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Since mid 20th. Century, Maintenance and Management, especially at their
top levels, have experienced an outstanding interdependent evolution, such
that, the end of that Century saw the emergence of the concept of “Asset
Management”. The British norm PASS 55 is derived from the above
mentioned concept. Its main objective is optimum management of assets to
achieve expected and sustainable results, but based on the original
Maintenance focus, not in the current concept of Conservation….
COROLLARY
What is the next step?
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Throughout this document, we have studied in depth several factors
regarding the importance of an ecologic focus required for Industrial
Conservation tasks. We have proved that there is a close relationship
between Industrial Maintenance, Ecology, and Eco technology.
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The next step is to take advantage of this relationship for the development of
companies without damaging their environment and their ecologic milieu.
INDUSTRIAL CONSERVATION AND ITS RELATION WITH ECOLOGY.
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The symbiosis among companies is very important. It can help minimize the
damage to the environment, and the usage of waste material generated by
each System generates, so that the systems can better use energy and
matter to create satisfactors.
This is the change in focus we require. This is the path to evolution we must
take:
FROM INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE
TO
ECOLOGIC MANAGEMENT OF SYSTEMS .