Prevenção e minimização do impacto de falhas em bombas e compressores nos processos industriais

Abstract

The competition in the industrial environment increases constantly making the development of new techniques and practices to reduce costs of production and increase quality of goods indispensable. With the constant technological and industrial evolution, the maintenance sector also needed to adapt itself, developing new technology but also improving the management of equipment maintenance changing focus from correcting flaws to preventing them. Then preventive maintenance was born. In order to understand the current situation of this kind of maintenance inside industries, the aim of this study is to describe the types of preventive maintenance in pumps and the occurrence of this kind of maintenance in pumps and compressors. Besides that, the aim is to ascertain the possibility of addition of pumps and backup compressors in the process and to determine the responsible for this kind of maintenance in the compressors. The main focus of this study will be pumps and compressors because they are more common in factories. Furthermore, there are also some other objectives included such as autonomous maintenance and importance of assuring the manager has expertise in maintenance. In order to make the abovementioned analysis, a questionnaire was prepared which aimed to achieve all the objectives above. The questionnaire was then sent to factories’ managers and professionals in the maintenance sector so that was possible to obtain the answers. It was observed a large use of pumps and backup compressors in the procedures besides a big use of preventive maintenance in the equipment. It was possible to notice that autonomous maintenance is also an important piece in the maintenance management. In addition, one becomes aware that managers of process and production must know at least the basic about their equipment maintenance.