Southern Company is a large power utility focused on generating and selling electricity in the southeastern United States. In 2012, Southern Company provided over 40,000 megawatts of power generation to 4.4 million customers and had operational revenue of $16.54 billion.
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) offers a myriad of benefits to an organization, primarily an asset-heavy company. But did you know EAM software can help businesses get organized?
In the first of this three-part series, we will review why these particular items are important to support your Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with the end user.
About 30 years ago, the Plant Engineer of an ITT Rayonier paper mill in north Florida called me into his office and announced that, as a reward for a job well done, I was being given the position of Plant Maintenance Engineer. This was a bit confusing at first, as I was a mechanical/civil Project Engineer at the time, in a 38 year old facility that had never had a Maintenance Engineer.
By: Walter Nijsen Asst. Maintenance and Reliability Leader Cargill Grain and Oilseeds Europe
Understanding how our plants perform and how well we perform in relation to others often reveals opportunities for improvement, at least in principle. The key question first raised is often “Are we comparing apples with apples?” If not (as in many cases), the whole exercise of comparison and to some extend measurement becomes somewhat (or completely) meaningless.
On top of that, a question that really should be answered first is WHY should we measure? Along with, WHAT should be measured and HOW?
Southern Company is a large power utility focused on generating and selling electricity in the southeastern United States. In 2012, Southern Company provided over 40,000 megawatts of power generation to 4.4 million customers and had operational revenue of $16.54 billion.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., stated: - “I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”
Creating a New Partner with Reliability Centered Operations
by Paul R. Casto, CMRP
To optimize both maintenance risk and cost, the interrelationships between reliability, maintenance and operations must be considered and leveraged to capitalize on the strengths of each. Reliability Centered Operations (RCO) is an approach that optimizes these relationships through the application of a maintenance strategy built from failure analysis that will yield more expansive and cost-effective risk reduction tasks.