Measurement of Performance Effectiveness of A Palm-Nut Oil Extraction Line Using Maintenance Metrics

Abstract

The economic enhancement in Palm-nut oil extraction line was the major drive of the undertaken project. This study is to measure the performance effectiveness of palm-nut oil extraction line using maintenance metrics like Mean-Time-To-Repair MTTR and Mean-Time-Before-Failures MTBF. The process adopted was to measure MTTR and MTBF of the equipment in the Palm-nut Oil extraction line to determine their effectiveness. The MTTR and MTBF of palm-nut washer, palm-nut steamer, and palm-nut extractor were obtained with their maximum rate, efficiency and throughput. Then, the entire efficiency of the extraction line is evaluated as 87.1812%. while the throughput of the entire palm-nut extraction line is 3.21839 kg/min. The effectiveness of the equipment is that the entire line processes 3.21839 kg of palm-nut in every minute for the run time of 420 minutes. In conclusion, the efficiency is higher, but the MTTR will be reduced further and the MTBF increased for higher efficiency and reliability of the palm-nut oil extraction equipment.