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Reliability, Availability, Inspection, and Equipment Support Services

In the hydrocarbon processing industry, downtime is simply not an option. In fact, unplanned downtime can cost a refinery upwards of $1 million per day. However, proactive reliability and maintenance programs can not only decrease your annual maintenance costs but, more importantly, improve operational availability – helping you earn millions of dollars each year.

Look to UOP's experts for innovative ways to help you improve reliability, upgrade maintenance programs, and increase operational availability – all while optimizing maintenance costs.

With more than 60 years of experience, we understand the dramatic impact of improved reliability and maintenance performance on your on-stream time and profitability. Our studies have shown that optimized reliability and maintenance programs can increase operational availability up to 10%, decrease maintenance costs by 10 – 20%, and reduce both the number and severity of unplanned process interruptions.

Recently, we enabled a client to advance from a reactive to a proactive maintenance program, resulting in savings of $5 million annually. Their maintenance expenditures were reduced by 40%, while their already good availability was improved by 4%.

Our experienced Reliability Services group works with experts from every discipline within UOP – mechanical equipment design, inspection, metallurgy, corrosion control, and reliability and maintenance – to better identify your opportunities and then develop and implement corresponding solutions.

We analyze all of your existing assets, paying particular attention to process reliability, asset integrity management, turnaround optimization and loss prevention. We also provide discrete inspection services, heater monitoring and specialized equipment support.

If you’re in the refining business, you can’t afford to be off-line, and you can’t afford to operate without a strategic maintenance plan in place. Find out how UOP can provide your refinery with reliability and maintenance programs you can truly count on. Contact us today using our information request form.

For more information about our reliability, availability, inspection and equipment support services, click on the following links.
Inspection
Heater Monitoring

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