INTRODUCTION: PLANT MAINTENANCE OPTIMIZATION

    Maintenance optimisation is a process that attempts to balance the maintenance requirement (Legislative, Economic, and Technical) etc.and the resources used to carryout the maintenance programme.(peoples,spares,consumptions,equipment; etc.).The goal of the maintenance optimisation is to select the appropriate maintenance technique for each piece of equipment within a system and identifying the periodicity that the maintenance technique should be conducted to achieved availability and cost.(Digiovanni,2003). It is obvious that when maintenance is effectively implemented it will, i)Improve  system availability, ii) Reduce operation maintenance cost iii),Improve equipment reliability and system safety.
The maintenance optimization process will effectively blend predictive,proactive and, corrective maintenance strategies often through the use of reliability centred maintenance techniques. This will allow system maintenance to move from a reactive approach or preventive approach to a planned approach..The planned approach conducts maintenance at the most optimum time, which is often before the equipment fails. Optimising maintenance often seems to be a catchall for many odd activities that no other single department can or wants to handled, but care must be taken not to dilute the primary responsibilities of maintenance with the secondary services. Maintenance must be carefully tailored to suite existing technical, geographical and personnel situations. Basic organizational rules due exist, however, there are some general rules covering specific conditions that govern how the maintenance department is to be structured. It is usually essential that some recognised, formally established relationship exist to layout firm lines of authority and responsibility, Such an organization laced with universal truths, trimmed to fit local structures, and staff with people who interact positively and with a strong spirit of cooperation is the one, which is mostly to succeed, such is the case that exist in most of the professional organization, where the maintenance department is taken as an adhoc implementation and planning department of the organisation or company..