Plant Operation and Maintenance
A written contract to run and look after a chosen section or system, if the scope can be taken on. Staff training can be added.
What it is
Handing Over the Running and Upkeep on Written Terms
A plant has to be run every shift and kept in order, and both require suitable people, supervision and time. Under an operation and maintenance contract, some or all of that work is handed over on written terms: which equipment, which duties, which hours, and what is reported back to you. Whether the proposed scope can be taken on, and who provides the operating and maintenance people, is confirmed before quotation.
How much you hand over is your choice. It can be one system or one section, and it can be upkeep alone, running alone, or both. Plants usually look at it when a section is short of trained people, when a new section is ready before its staff are, or when upkeep keeps losing out to production.
The contract matters more than the label. If the duties on each side are clear, nobody is left guessing who was to check a reading, order a spare or attend a fault at night. Duties that the applicable rules leave with the plant stay with the plant.
Machine AMC or Plant Contract
We also offer annual maintenance contracts for three oil purification machines. They are a different thing, and for many plants the simpler answer.
| To compare | Machine AMC | Plant operation and maintenance |
|---|---|---|
| What it covers | One machine: a centrifuge, an electrostatic oil cleaner or an LVDH machine | The section or system named in your contract |
| What is done | That machine maintained, or your oil filtered at your plant with a machine of ours | The duties you list: running, routine checks, upkeep, breakdowns, records |
| When the work happens | On visits: 4 preventive and 2 emergency or breakdown visits a year on a maintenance contract, or agreed dates for filtration | The hours or visits your contract sets |
| Who runs the plant | The AMC does not transfer operation of the plant | Whoever the contract names for each duty |
| Spare parts | Charged extra, at actuals, on a maintenance contract | As your contract sets out |
| Term | 12 months on a maintenance contract | As your contract sets out |
If One Machine Is Your Concern
Each machine has its own page, with the two kinds of contract it comes in.
What a Contract Can Set Out
These are the usual headings. Yours has only the ones you need:
- Operation. Which equipment is run, on which shifts or hours, and to whose instructions.
- Routine checks. Rounds, readings and logbooks, and who reads them.
- Planned maintenance. A schedule of what is inspected, cleaned, adjusted and tested, and how often.
- Breakdowns. How a fault is reported and who attends it.
- Spares and consumables. Who holds them, who buys them and how they are charged.
- Records. What is reported to you, and how often.
How a Contract Is Set Up
Nothing is assumed from another plant. The scope is written for yours.
Tell Us About the Plant
What the plant or section does, the equipment in it, who runs it now, and the part of that work you want to hand over.
Go Through It Together
The equipment list, the manuals, the maintenance history and the logbooks show what state things are in and what the duties really involve.
Write Down Who Does What
Each duty gets a name against it in the scope, including permits, spare parts and inspections.
Quotation
You receive a quotation for that written scope. Change the scope and the quotation changes with it.
Handover
The condition of the equipment on the first day is noted, so that faults already there are not confused with ones that come later.
Review
The contract sets when the two sides sit down with the records, and how duties can be added or dropped.
Training for Your Staff
Training can be added to a contract, so your own people can do more of this work, or take it back when the contract ends. It follows your equipment, and the topics are agreed before it starts; the machine maker’s manual and your plant’s procedures come first. Topics a plant might ask for:
- Why oil condition matters. How water, dirt and heat damage oil, and what that does to the machines it serves.
- Routine checks. What to read and record on a round, and which readings need action.
- Filters and strainers. Reading a blocked-filter indicator, and telling a cleanable element from one that is replaced.
- Oil samples. How to draw a clean sample, so that the test result means something.
- Working safely. Isolation and permits, as your plant’s own procedures require.
Where It Is Used
- Oil purification and filtration units: the machines that keep a plant’s oil clean, and their pipework.
- Lube oil and hydraulic systems: central oil systems that serve several machines.
- Fuel and thermic fluid systems: the storage, transfer and filter sections of these lines.
- New or extended sections: a section just commissioned, before your own staff are ready to take it over.
What Your Site Provides
Whoever takes on the duties, these normally stay with the plant; your quotation confirms the list.
- Work permits, gate passes and access to the work area.
- Isolation and lock-out wherever a line or system is opened.
- Electric power at the work location.
- The manuals, drawings and maintenance history of the equipment in the contract.
- Disposal of sludge, used oil and waste through your plant’s waste route.
Questions Buyers Ask
How is this different from a machine AMC?
A machine AMC covers one machine, a centrifuge, an electrostatic oil cleaner or an LVDH machine, through agreed visits, and does not transfer operation of the plant. A plant contract is written around the section or system you name and the duties you want handed over.
Can we hand over only the maintenance and keep our own operators?
That is a matter for the scope. The list of duties is yours to set, and the written scope then shows which stay with your operators.
Have you run a plant like ours?
Ask us when you enquire. Tell us the plant and we will say plainly whether there is any relevant work to show you, and what we can and cannot take on.
Can we have the staff training without a contract?
Ask us. Tell us who is to be trained and on what equipment, and we will tell you what can be arranged.
Do our staff get a certificate?
This page promises no certificate or recognised qualification. If you need one, say so when you enquire and we will tell you plainly whether it can be provided.
What should I send for a quote?
What the plant or section does, a list of its equipment, how many shifts it runs, who runs it now and the duties you want handed over. Add who is to be trained, if you want training. Approximate is fine.
How long is a contract, and how is it priced?
It depends on the size of the plant, the duties and the hours to be covered, so we quote for each enquiry.
Related Services
Centrifuge AMC
An annual maintenance contract for the oil centrifuge you own, or filtration of your oil at your plant with our own centrifuge.
Electrostatic Oil Cleaner AMC
An annual maintenance contract for the electrostatic oil cleaner you own, or filtration of your oil at your plant with our own machine.
LVDH AMC
An annual maintenance contract for the LVDH vacuum dehydration machine you own, or filtration of your oil at your plant with our own LVDH machine.
Oil Management & Purification
Centrifuge, vacuum dehydration or electrostatic cleaning, chosen from what your oil test shows.
Oil Analysis
Oil tested at our NABL-accredited partner laboratory, with particle count and breakdown voltage (BDV) checks at your site.
Ask About a Plant Contract
Tell us about the plant. “Not sure” is a fine answer; we will ask follow-up questions.
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Go Through the Scope With Us
Send your list of equipment and the duties you have in mind. We go through it with you and say plainly what can be taken on and what should stay with your own team.
Request an Assessment
Not Sure Which Contract You Need?
Call or WhatsApp an engineer. If one machine is all that needs looking after, we will point you to the machine AMC instead.
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