Equipment Life Optimization Program

The Equipment Life Optimization Program (ELOP) helps owners and managers effectively address asset management problems while meeting market or contract reliability needs.

Does your Power Plant suffer from:

 Reduced Capital and Maintenance Budgets?

• Reduced Inspection/Condition Assessment Budgets?
• Lower Staffing and Technical Support?
• Component Reliability Problems?
• Lingering Safety Risks?
• Component Design Problems & High OEM Costs for Fixes?
• Adverse Impacts of Environmental Upgrades?
• Increased Requirements to Cycle or Lower Minimum Loads?
• Need for Effective Historical Maintenance Database?

Intertek staff teams with your in-house maintenance managers in the full assessment of your critical equipment – from initial condition assessment, condition and operation database development, economic decision analysis, plan and budget reports, inspection planning and implementation, to on-going outage and problem solving support. Our approach is to provide high level technical support as needed at each plant minimizing overall costs. We help plant owners reduce capital replacement and repair costs by identifying the causes of component damage, and developing creative low-cost methods to mitigate both the damage and its consequences. We also develop cost-effective methods to implement repairs and replacements. Intertek has developed methods to better focus inspections of many plant components reducing the number of locations, frequencies, and overall costs of inspections.

Intertek’s ELOP clients benefit by having highly qualified technical staff immediately available as problems arise, reducing forced outage hours and extensions to planned outages.

We can work with clients on an alliance basis, including sharing of costs and benefits of specific projects. To learn more about Intertek's ELOP Services, please contact:

• Dwight Agan, ELOP Project Manager Phone: 408.636.5338, Dwight.Agan@Intertek.com 
• Tom Burnett, ELOP Project Manager Phone: 832.593.0550, Tom.Burnett@Intertek.com 
• Steve Lefton, Director of Utility Power Plant Projects, Phone: 408.636.5302, Steve.Lefton@Intertek.com 

Contact us to see how Intertek can help your organization with Equipment Life Optimization Program.