About PERD

Overview

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) has been actively involved in pursuing equipment reliability data since the 1980’s. In 1989, the CCPS Guidelines for Equipment Reliability Data was published with the intent to support chemical process quantitative risk assessments.

At the conclusion of this project it was apparent that better data was needed. To obtain such data, it was further determined that the emphasis had to change from risk assessment to reliability and tools to improve maintenance decisions. Following this decision, the committee set about putting together an action plan meant to accomplish the following mission.

The equipment reliability database offers high quality, valid, and useful data to the HPI and CPI. This data allows you to analyze availability, reliability and equipment design improvements, maintenance strategies and life cycle cost determination.

The CCPS Process Equipment Reliability Database (PERD) Project has focused on developing the necessary taxonomies and infrastructure to support cost effective quality data collection.  The PERD project technology allows collection of quality data by using a definable and reproducible taxonomy, providing a fundamentally sound structure to capture data in a format that allows immediate analysis, facilitating the understanding of what the raw data means or represents.  Several taxonomies have been progressed to a quality that supports sale to the public, and additional taxonomies continue to be developed. 

Following successful use of the first generation software in pilot exercises, we are taking the lessons learned and developing a 2nd generation of software that will be more robust, web based and expand the number taxonomies supported.   The Web based Beta version is targeted to be available by the end of 2005.  With the solid foundation that has now been put into place, participating companies have now begun a series of pilot activities to bring operation to complete fruition.

Please direct any questions concerning PERD to Dave Belonger at dbelonger@verizon.net or to Scott Berger at ccps@aiche.org.