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Articles: CMMS and EAM

Go Enterprise Wide!

Braskem, formed in 2002, operates 19 industrial units producing more than 10 million tons of thermoplastic resins, first and second generation petrochemicals.  Although highly successful, the company found themselves hampered by the fragmentation of critical asset information among its 19 industrial units.

ISO 14224: Collection and exchange of reliability and maintenance data for equipment

This International Standard provides a comprehensive basis for the collection of reliability and maintenance (RM) data in a standard format for equipment in all facilities and operations within the petroleum, natural gas and petrochemical industries during the operational life cycle of equipment.

Long Beach Transit Case Study

ABOUT LONG BEACH TRANSIT

Each year, more than 29 million people in southern California travel on buses operated by Long Beach Transit. The transit company provides fixed and flexible bus services in Long Beach, Lakewood and Signal Hill, as well as portions of Artesia, Bellflower, Carson, Cerritos, Compton, Hawaiian Gardens, Norwalk, Paramount and Seal Beach.

Managing Calibrations in SAP

A major SAP upgrade from SAP3.1 to SAP4.6 was implemented at Sappi South Africa between 2003 until 2004. Many of the Sappi business process were reviewed during this project and particularly in the plant maintenance area of the business.

Master Records are Not Optional - Get the Detail Work Behind You

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.

 

Maximo to the Max - Following One Organization’s Upgrade Experience

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.

 

Optimizing SAP/PM with ‘Best Practices’

How One Company's Amarillo Plant Built an 'Asset Reliability Model' for Success.

Reliability in the Regulatory and Compliance Environment

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

Successful EAM Implementation & Seven Critical Pitfalls to Avoid

Jim Davis, CMRP

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, in fact, find themselves using less than twenty-five percent of the capabilities of the new software.

 

The final 10% OEE - Achieving Operational Excellence (and Competitive Advantage)

I subscribe to a number of blogs, and one feed last week (from Seth Godin) discussed the difficulty of attaining the last 10% of almost anything. The slicker your processes and the higher the levels of service you deliver are, the harder it becomes to progress as there are fewer improvement opportunities to capitalize on. Lots of companies make cars that reach 120 mph, but far less achieve 180mph, and even fewer reach 200mph. As the speed gets faster, cost, effort and performance has to increase. To reach 180mph it's not just a question of spending big money on engine design and components, there have to be improvements made to chassis, suspension, brakes and tyre performance. This often results in trade-offs being made. My old Chevrolet, for instance, could reach silly speeds in a straight line (closed road, professional driver) but when it was driven slowly everything clunked and clicked. There was so much float in the brakes to allow for expansion when they got hot that stopping the car when they were cold took a mighty push on the pedal.

Waiting for CMMS Success?

Quality Data Is Key to Finding Promising Results

by Tracy Smith and Clay Bush

What Does it Take to Make SAP PM an Enabler for Your Organization?

A SAMI AHC (Asset Health Care) Stage 1 (Work Management) engagement primarily focuses on 'getting control of work'. For clients that use SAP , we often find their SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) backlog unattended.

What’s the FRACAS?

Failure Elimination Made Simple

by Ricky Smith, CPMM, CMRP and Bill Keeter, CMRP

How good is your organization at identifying failures?  Of course you see failures when they occur, but can you identify when recurring failures are creating serious equipment reliability issues?  Most companies begin applying RCA or RCFA to “high value failures”.  While this is not wrong, I prefer to either not see the failure in the first place, or at the least, to reduce the failures to a controllable level.

Why Remediation of CMMS Data is Essential to Reliability-Centered Maintenance

by Scott Weston, CMRP, Reliability Engineer, Global Knowledge Management, Inc.

In my experience, companies tend to install and commission operating equipment quickly so that it may contribute to the bottom line as soon as possible. Some do a better job than others of analyzing the equipment and determining the preventive and predictive maintenance activities necessary to get the most out of the equipment. Once these activities are determined, they tend to continue on in perpetuity. Equipment/instrument and spare parts data are loaded as well, and are rarely updated. As the equipment ages and changes are made, change management systems may or may not capture updated data. This causes more work for the crafts persons, less efficiency in maintenance activities, and decision making with outdated or incorrect data.

 

Wiring Your Assets for Success

By Tracy Smith and Clay Bush

Introduction

Does your control system (e.g., SCADA, BAS, HMI, Historian) pass critical asset performance data, such as run-time readings, energy consumption and operating condition, on to your Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system?

If you answered "no," you are not alone. Our experience reveals that the majority of industrial and facility control systems do not communicate and share data with the EAM system. This is unfortunate and places the maintenance organization at a disadvantage.

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