Equipment Reliability Strategies

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Team Name

ERS (Equipment Reliability Strategies)

Timeline

Spring 2023 – Summer 2023

Students

  • Nicholas Nguyen​
  • Pablo Sanchez​
  • Hoang Long Quan Nguyen​
  • Viraj Vipinbhai Sabhaya

Sponsor

Becht

Abstract

The Equipment Reliability Strategies (ERS) web application project focuses on recreating an outdated platform for managing equipment reliability strategies, focusing on industries that rely on mechanical and technical equipment. The project involves a complete UI/UX overhaul and later changes that include complex data hierarchy, integration with third-party systems, and potential AI/ML usage. The targeted users for this application will be site engineers, inspection, and maintenance staff, site management, corporate strategies, and investors. The platform will mitigate risks to minimize health, safety, and environmental accidents by identifying and prioritizing failure mechanisms and will maximize asset Return on Investment (ROI). The project utilizes C#.NET Core, SQL Server Management Studio, Telerik KendoUI, and Entity Framework.

Background

Across most industries, millions of dollars are spent on equipment failure and maintenance. These failures can also cause serious safety concerns and environmental accidents. Becht’s Equipment Reliability Strategies application aids organizations identify the causes of equipment failures, calculate the risk percentage, and provides the best practices to prevent equipment failures from occurring again.

Project Requirements

  1. Equipment Management: Users must be able to add, view, and manage equipment and its properties.
  2. Service History Tracking: A page to add or view the service/maintenance histories of the equipment.
  3. Best Practice Management: A page to add or view best practices for the equipment.
  4. Scenarios: A page to add or view risk scenarios for the equipment.
  5. Actions: A page to add or view actions, that should be done to mitigate the risks in each scenario.
  6. Mitigations: A page to add or view mitigation plans for the equipment.
  7. Links: Users must be able to add/import data by uploading attachments to the links page.
  8. Data Security: Secure storage and processing of client’s data, equipment, service histories, and best practices in the SQL Server.

System Overview

The Equipment Reliability Strategies Application consists of four layers:

  1. Web Layer: Contains the views, helpers, language resources, security configurations, and interactable parts of the web application.
  2. Core Layer: Contains the business logic of the application, including security, access, and authentication tasks.
  3. Model Layer: Sometimes referred to as the business layer, it contains the application’s core functionality like rules, processes, business workflows, business rules, and data validation.
  4. Database Layer: Where all the database schema and application data are stored securely on the server side.

Results

Future Work

Future work will involve working on the backend to store the information that is provided by the user and to show it to the application as well. Along with that AI/ML potential, integration with third-party systems, and user-testing are also required.

Project Files

Project Charter (link)

System Requirements Specification (link)

Architectural Design Specification (link)

Detailed Design Specification (link)

Poster (link)

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