Ways to improve the economics of hydrostation equipment maintenance

Conclusions

• 1. The volume of repair of hydrostation equipment increases every year and necessitates taking timely measures to improve the organization and economics of maintenance in hydropower engineering.

• 2. At present there is no proper procedure for determining the performers of repairs at hydrostations, optimization of the structure of repair works is not practiced, and repair works are planned without the use of modern economic-mathematical methods with respect to the level attained.

• 3. In the repair industry of hydropower engineering it is necessary to take measures for the further improvement of planning and economic stimulation, which will intensify the effect of the economic mechanism on increasing the effectiveness and quality of maintenance and repair.

• 4. It is necessary to develop technicoeconomic indices (standards) of the system of planned preventive maintenance of hydrostation equipment and to introduce at power-equipment repair enterprises a method of planning and economic stimulation based on scientifically founded standards, engineering calculations of the plan, and stimulation of the end goals of the power-equipment repair industry.

• 5. In the annual repair assignments of Minénergo it is necessary include targets with respect to the specific cost of repair of equipment of power stations, including hydrostations, and specific number of maintenance personnel.