Zinifex chooses ARMS Reliability Engineers as Reliability Improvement Partner

In April 2007 Zinifex embarked on a Reliability Improvement Program and engaged ARMS Reliability Engineers to be their consulting and support partner throughout the process.  ARMS Reliability Engineers partner with Zinifex to oversee and facilitatie reliability improvement programs for the two Australian mines.  ARMS have also been helping the smelting and processing facilities which are now owned by Nyrstar.

The main focus for the reliability engineering initiative is to realise benefits through facilitating analysis, supporting implementation and concurrently building site capability in the reliability engineering aspects of asset management.  ARMS are helping Zinifex to do this by conducting site awareness and readiness sessions, undertaking criticality studies, building FMEA’s for critical equipment items and groups, and optimising and developing maintenance strategies. ARMS Reliability Engineers are delivering training in reliability methods such as root cause analysis and reliability centered maintenance and finally developing implementation plans and monitoring the progress of the initiative.

ARMS Reliability Engineers are also working with EDI Downer the mobile fleet maintenance contractors at Century Zinc Mine and providing support in the direction of their reliability improvement initiatives to improve equipment performance.

Jason Apps, Engineering Manager, ARMS Reliability Engineers said “Working alongside and in partnership with Zinifex’s Reliability Engineers allows for an efficient analysis and improvement process whereby ARMS Reliability Engineers facilitate studies and act in a support role allowing the Zinifex Reliability Engineers to manage their time effectively yet build capability.”

Critical to the ARMS Reliability Engineers solution is the empowerment of Zinifex staff through training sessions. This approach enables an integrated solution that can be interfaced to the business system to ensure that a continuous improvement program is created and able to be sustained.

A planned executive implementation tracking and audit system will ensure Zinifex will realize the short term gains and longer term benefits of their project investment over time.

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