cmms and eam

Originally presented at Reliability 2.0

by Marc Yarlott, Veolia Water North America, Terry Nelson, Inspiraworks and John Clow with Oracle

Summary:

In 2003, Veolia Water North America recognized that core business objectives should be expanded to include understanding complete lifecycle costs of the equipment we operate on behalf of our clients. At the time, Veolia Water North America was providing operating services to over 300 municipal and industrial clients across North America, each with common types of equipment in similar service. With access to such a wide range of applications for similar equipment types, Veolia had the data to develop a detailed understanding of life-cycle costs, but not the organizational infrastructure to capture and manage it.

by Jim H. Davis,Director of Sales/Operations, PCA

The “Top-7“ Critical Pitfalls to Avoid

Each year companies spend “thousands to sometimes millions” of dollars on a new EAM system only to find that one to two years down the road after implementation, they have no better data than what they previously had and find themselves using less than twenty-five percent of the capabilities of the new software.

So what went wrong? Why didn’t the investment pan out as anticipated? How then could other companies avoid the same mistakes in the future?

by Steve Mislan, Charleston Water System, Charleston, SC

“Should any person cause to flow into or be cast into any of the creeks, streams or inland waters of this State any impurities that are poisonous to fish or destructive to their spawn, such person shall, upon conviction, be punished.” - South Carolina Colonial Assembly, 1671

Originally presented at Reliability 2.0

by E. Todd White, MRG

In the United States alone there is a $738 billion dollar potential annual benefit from improved asset reliability (calculated from Department of Commerce current-cost net stock of private fixed assets in 2003 (total $4.9 trillion)). Executive leadership at all organizational levels is beginning to see the financial opportunity, seeking to understand the hidden dollars and saying we have to have reliable equipment and processes. Traditionally executives have not been steeped in the Engineering and Maintenance processes or systems that support and drive reliability. As such, they are typically unaware of the “gaps” in such systems and struggle to understand why actionable data is not readily available to support business decisions (As is often said, you can’t manage what you can’t measure.). One major area of contention and concern is the impact that the quality and availability of the Master data records contained in the management systems has on the ability to aggregate meaningful data.

by Shelley Whitener, CMRP; Ed Williams, CMRP; Sabine Boruff and Tom Arcuri

Sandia National Labs has been using Maximo almost since its inception. Over the years we have utilized the Maximo tools that conformed nicely to our maintenance processes.