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Maintenances Engineering

Terotechnology concept
• Terotechnology is a multidisciplinary concept and its aim is to achieve the
economic life cycle costs.
• This can only be achieved by a coordinated consideration of reliability,
maintainability and performance aspects from the design stage

Greek Word Tero = “I Care” + Technology

Management,

Financial, Economic life

It is the Combination of
cycle costs
Engineering

Practices applied to physical assets

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Terotechnology Includes

Disposal

Installation Commissioning

Plant Design Manufacturing of the

Maintenance
plant and equipment

Plant Removal
Repair

Replacement

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Objective of Terotechnology

• Minimized total life cycle cost

• Extend the useful life of the plant and equipment

• Assure optimum availability of plant equipment /Installed

equipment

• To ensure operational readiness at all times

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Activities of Terotechnology
• Decision regarding design, production and cost targets
• Decision as regards requirement of physical resources, plant and equipment
• Considering requirement of plant and equipment from the point of view of
production capability reliability environment control safety of operation
decreases toxicity of material and process or human aspects.
• Deciding the specification of the equipment to be procured from outside
• Acquiring, installing and commissioning the plant and equipment and
equipment and handling it over to the production department after carefully
carried-out tests and inspection
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Benefits of Terotechnology

• Better maintenance and higher reliability of plant and equipment

• Lower costs of maintenance and repair

• Lesser breakdowns

• Higher quality and better efficiency of operations

• Better communication between suppliers, producers and customers

• Better image of the company among its customers

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Strategies for Terotechnology

• Terotechnology is concerned with the provisioning and subsequent
management of physical assets.

• Assets management is a cradle-to-grave strategy which commences

with techno economic studies prior to an investment and proceeds
through the implementation cycle into the lie-cycle to use.

• During the period of use, there will be operation and maintenance

strategies, designed to give best use at least cost and eventually a
replacement or disposal strategy will be formulated, based on technical
and economic reviews.
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Types of Phase in Terotechnology

Preparation Phase
• Consideration of feedback (operations and maintenance)
• Planning (operations and maintenance policies)
• Technical forecasting
• Whole life planning
• Life cycle costing

Decision Phase

• Direct participation by users (past and future)

• Preparation of procurement check lists
• Reviews of supplier profiles and quality ratings
• Specification of support systems
• Review of life plans and life cycle costs
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Types of Phase in Terotechnology

Implementation Phase
• Design (records, reviews, configuration control)
• Studies (maintainability, reliability, feedback)
• Project planning and control
• Support planning (information, training, spares)
• Information system
• Documentations
• Maintenance planning
• Commissioning
• Handover
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Types of Phase in Terotechnology

Utilization Phase
• Operation, maintenance, condition monitoring
• Technical and cost records
• Analysis of records
• Feedback to operations, maintenance, design, procurement
• Improvement and updating
• Reviews of life plan and life cycle costing

Review Phase
• Technical and financial reviews
• Disposal or replacement decisions
• Feedback to benefit future projects

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