Manufacturing Tanker Washing Process Case Study Business Need The client had recognised the need for an assessment of the Tanker Washing Process within their 14 stage single series production line. The TWP was a critical asset within the production process and had been identifi ed as one of the contributors to production backlog due to unavailability of the TWP itself. Most stages of the production line did have ‘buffer’ capacity between stages, except for the TWP. The Tanker Washing Process was used for cleaning fi nished products before the next stage of the production process which was component painting. Solution It was agreed to perform an RCM (Reliability Centred Maintenance) study on the TWP in order to recognise the modes of failure and contributors to the unavailabil

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