Quality Control and Quality Assurance in Maintenance
- Date: 23 – 25 November 2015
- Committee: Technical
- Place: Muscat, Oman
Based on the goals established by AFA performance development strategic plan, aiming at enhancing productivity through technical development and qualification as well as expanding fertilizer factories' capacities, AFA organized in cooperation with AFA member Company: Oman India Fertilizer Company a workshop titled "Qualify Control and Assurance in Maintenance in Fertilizer Industry", in Muscat, Oman, during the period 23 – 35 November 2015.
AFA Secretary General, Mr. Mohamed Abdallah Zain stated that the Workshop, via exchanging expertise and information, targets raising the awareness of and providing knowledge to the participants' in the following fields:
- Highlighting maintenance management, quality and productivity fields;
- Setting electronic maintenance systems to ensure quality maintenance results;
- Identifying methods and basics of performance efficiency evaluation for maintenance process and team;
- Pinpointing the impact of engineering inspection and periodical maintenance on fertilizer factories' productivity;
- Communicating and exchanging expertise regarding maintenance best practices applied by AFA member companies.
The Workshop included a number of essential topics:
- Periodical maintenance and impact of preventive maintenance programs
- Integration of maintenance and production processes
- Predictive maintenance and impact on reliability
- Impact of effective preventive maintenance
- Maintenance of major rotating equipment
- Computerizing maintenance process management
- Failure mode effects analysis
- Maintenance auditing process
- Maintenance risk management
- Maintenance Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Erosion in high temperatures
- Presentation of distinguished Arab fertilizers companies experiences in maintenance field
More than 60 attendants from AFA members participated, from Oman, UAE, Jordan, Bahrain, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Qatar, KSA and Tunisia.
Also, the 103rd Board meeting held parallel to the Workshop. The meeting discussed a number of issues, important of which 2016 plan and budget, and followed up the implementation of strategic programs and plans concerned with the development of AFA performance efficiency.
In this occasion, AFA would like to extend deep appreciation to Engineer Hamad Al-Hashemi, AFA Board member, representative of Sultanate of Oman and General Director of Oman India Fertilizer Company. Also, we would like to express gratitude to Oman India Fertilizer Company staff for their support to such a technical workshop proceedings.
