Introduction to Oracle eAM
(Enterprise Asset Management)
and our implementation experiences

Jeremy Carson
Applications Manager
CMMS - Computerised Maintenance Management
System
Point Solution
e.g. Maximo, Mexx

or
ERP Integrated Solution
e.g Oracle E-Business Suite, JDE, Peoplesoft

or
Other
e.g. Excel
What do you have ?

?
Agenda
• Solid Energy Overview
• Key Configuration Steps
• Asset Model
• Maintenance Tasks
• Work Management
• Preventative Maintenance
• Cost Management
• Key experiences
• Questions ?
Solid Energy Overview
Solid Energy Overview – Energy Business
• Coal - Steel Production (Export / NZ Steel) Electricity Generation (Genesis)
- Domestic Industries (Fonterra / Holcim / Alliance / Silver Fern)
• Renewables – Wood pellets / Biodiesel / Solar
• New Energy – Coal Seam Gas, Coal to Fertiliser
Solid Energy Overview - People
• Approx 1200 employees nationwide, predominately in the Waikato, South
Island West Coast and Southland
• Approx 600 directly employed contractors
Solid Energy Overview - Assets
• An asset intensive business
• High focus on Health and Safety
• High focus on availability and utilisation of assets
• Predominately Mobile and Fixed Plant assets
Solid Energy Assets - Trucks
Solid Energy Assets - Excavators
Solid Energy Assets – Conveyors
Solid Energy Assets – Underground Miners
Solid Energy Assets – Water Treatment Plants
Solid Energy Assets – Train Loadouts
Solid Energy Overview – Our eAM Install
• Have used Oracle eAM since 2003 as an early adopter on Oracle EBusiness Suite 11.5.7
• Now using Oracle E-Business Suite 12.0.6
• Currently have 6 live Oracle eAM sites/organisations
• System Statistics
-

15,000+ work orders per annum
2000+ maintained assets
4000+ preventative maintenance activities
5000+ maintenance purchase requisitions per annum
10000+ maintenance inventory issues per annum
Key Configuration Steps
Configuration Steps – Taxonomy document
• As part of solution design create a Taxonomy document, which defines;
• eAM organization parameters e.g. default WIP Accounting Class
• Key lookups e.g. Areas, Departments, Categories
• Define standards and naming conventions for key setup areas
- Asset Model e.g. Asset Number/Groups/Hierarchy/Categories
- Maintenance Tasks e.g. Activities, Activity Type/Source/Cause
- Work Management e.g. Work Order Type/Status/Priority
- Preventative Maintenance e.g. Meters, Schedules
• Taxonomy must understand system limitations e.g. Asset Number must be
unique

• Taxonomy is a living document…refine with subsequent implementations
• Successful taxonomy makes system intuitive for users
Configuration Steps – Solution Design document
• Document how Oracle eAM will deliver each business process e.g. Asset
Breakdown to Work Order creation

• Swim lane the business process across business roles e.g. maintenance,
procurement, stores
• Detailed application mapping to requirements for each process step
• Review regularly and iteratively with key maintenance personnel
• Develop Proof of Concepts to assist with design validation and acceptance
Asset Model
Asset Model - Asset Numbers
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Asset Numbers are the key entity in eAM
Mostly represent physical assets
Can be virtual assets in asset hierarchy for roll-up/grouping
Assets are setup either as a;
- Capital Asset or
- Rebuildable Inventory Components which rotate on/off Capital Assets and are
repaired/refurbished in between.
• Asset Numbers exist in separate register (using Oracle Install Base) than
the Fixed Asset register
• Asset Numbers can be linked to a single Fixed Asset Number

TIP: Asset Numbers must be unique through the system
Consider physical asset naming and common sites names
Asset Model - Asset Number screen
Asset Model - Asset Number screen
Asset Model - Asset Groups
• Each Asset belongs to an Asset Group
• Many key configurations driven by Asset Group
- Asset Bills of Materials – Typical materials used for maintenance
- Templates – Provides automatic creation of Preventative Maintenance
configuration e.g. Activities, Meters, Schedules
- Asset Attributes – Storage of additional asset information
- Failure Analysis – Failure, Cause and Resolution

• Define groups to represent virtually identical assets, in terms of materials
and preventative maintenance e.g. Make and Model combination.

TIP: Asset Groups must be unique through the system
Asset Model - Asset Groups screen
Asset Model - Asset Hierarchy
• Assets belong in a hierarchy
• Each Asset has a Parent Asset
• Establishes a roll-up mechanism for;
-

Cost reporting
Preventative Maintenance forecasting
Searches
Maintenance and failure history

• Virtual assets at top of hierarchy to deliver meaningful rollups;
- Production or process affinity
- Geographical or physical location
Asset Model - Asset Hierarchy screen
Asset Model - Summary
Maintenance Tasks
Maintenance Tasks - Activities
• Activities are predefined Maintenance work to be completed
• Generally routine work e.g. exchange pump, replace tyres or preventative
maintenance work e.g. services / inspections
• Activities define the following
- Tasks – More detailed tasks of the predefined work
- Bills of Materials – Required materials
- Routings – Required labour or equipment
- File attachments – Such as service sheet, diagrams, safety procedures
• Create Activity Association Template to associate to an Asset Group
or associate to an individual Asset
Maintenance Tasks – Activity Association screen
Work Management
Work Management – Work Requests
• Simple interface to capture reactive Maintenance work
• Can go through approval process, then be assigned to Work Orders
Work Management – Work Requests
Work Management – Work Orders
• Work Orders represent specific instances of Maintenance work for an asset
• Created in the following ways;
- Manually i.e. unplanned / corrective work
- Automatically by Preventative Maintenance forecast
- Automatically from Condition Based monitoring (via Oracle Quality)
• Work Orders record maintenance history and planned and actual costs
• Work Orders must have;
- Asset associated
- One or more Tasks i.e. Operations
- Scheduled Start / End Time

• Work Orders can have;
- Predefined Work assigned i.e. Activity
- Material requirements i.e. Stock, Non Stock, Requisitions
- Labour requirements i.e. Trade resource
Work Management – Work Orders screen
Work Management – Work Orders screen
Work Management – Completion
• Completion updates Last Service information e.g. 250hr service
completed at 12,500 hrs on 01-Feb-2010
• Prevents further costs being coded to the Work Order
• Captures the following information;
- Actual Start and End time
- Job Notes
- Failure Analysis
Work Management –Completion screen
Preventative Maintenance
Preventative Maintenance - Schedules
• Define when activities should occur for an Asset or Asset Group
• Defined to occur by;
- Date Rules – every 7 days
- Meter Rules – every 50 hours, 10000 km’s
- List Dates – on 01-Jan-2011
• Work forecasts from Last Service Information i.e. when activity was last
completed for the asset
- Date Rules – on 01-Jan-2010
- Meter Rules – at 2000 hours
- Combinations of the above
• Single definition can schedule multiple activities which share a common
base interval
• Schedules can include suppression e.g. 250hr service suppresses 50hr service
if its forecast within 20 hours of it
Preventative Maintenance – Schedules screen
Preventative Maintenance - Meters
• Meters used to schedule activities
• Ascending meters e.g. kilometres, hours
• Fluctuating meters e.g. temperature, pressure, vibration
• Meter hierarchies allowing parent meter to increment children e.g. truck
hours increments rim hours
Preventative Maintenance – Meters screen
Preventative Maintenance - Forecasting
• Forecasting generates Work Orders as per schedules
• Forecasts for a specified maintenance window e.g. next 14 days
• Can perform online or as a concurrent program
• Can selectively forecasts groups of assets
Preventative Maintenance - Forecasting
Preventative Maintenance - Summary
Cost Management
Cost Management – WIP Accounting Class (WAC)
• WIP Accounting Classes (WAC) define accounting rules
• Single GL accounts defined for Material and Resource transactions
• Limited capability for complex accounting requirements
• Default WAC for Organisation
• Can be superseded by WAC configured against the at Asset, Activity or
Work Order
Cost Management – Actual to Planned Costs
• Planned Costs built up on Work Order using
- Materials – Defaulted from Activity BOM or manually requested
- Labour – Defaulted from Activity Routing or manually requested
• Actual Costs accumulate on Work Order from
- Stores inventory issues to Work Order
- Purchase requisition (Direct Item) receipts
- Maintenance Resource transactions
- Invoice Price Variances (PO Matching)
• Cost Analysis can then be performed in multiple ways, such as;
- Asset using Hierarchy
- Work Order
- By Activity
Cost Management – Work Order costs
Key experiences
Key Experiences – What we have achieved
• A single maintenance system throughout the organization
• Better integration between stores and maintenance
• Comprehensive asset and component history
• Focus on preventative maintenance, driving better asset reliability
• Better management of maintenance workload
• Standardised asset information and maintenance procedures
• Ability to analyse asset and maintenance department performance
Key experiences – Maintenance Staff Involvement
• Maintenance staff involvement essential throughout implementation lifecycle
• Creates required buy-in for successful business transition and adoption
• Select “right” person carefully
- Positive / Seeks improvement i.e. this is something new, but we should use
- Resilient / Can do attitude i.e. that not ideal but we can make it work
- Well Respected i.e. will lead others to accept solution and advocate it
• Ensure the maintenance team is well trained and supported once live
Key experiences – Data load
• Data load is manual, complicated and time consuming
• Limited open interfaces
- Items (Asset Group, Activities) / Asset Number / Meter Reading

• Now several more APIs in R12
- Maintenance Object (Asset Number) / Activity / Preventative Maintenance

• We have built custom Excel templates and used DataLoad utility
• Have final dataset loaded for UAT, you will get many useful “corrections”
Key experiences – Reporting
• Standard reports are “limited”
• Develop a custom Work Order, probably in BI Publisher now
• Develop suite of reports to meet user requirements
• We developed Discoverer reports, some examples;
-

Asset Hierarchy / History / Availability
Asset / Work Order costing – by Hierarchy
Asset / Work Order Material Requirements
Asset Failure Analysis
Key Performance e.g. Planned Versus Unplanned, Maintenance backlog
Configuration reports e.g. BOMS, Activities, Schedules

• Other off the shelf options worth investigating
- Oracle eAM Daily Business Intelligence
- Vizaya WorkAlign® Analytics
- Signum EAM Analytics™
Key experiences – Reporting
Key experiences – Subledger Accounting
• “Get around” limitation of single material and labour GL accounts
• We use Subledger Accounting to re-code;
- Expense Account – Based on Item/PO Category
- Asset Account – Based on Flexfield held against Asset Number
• Not too complicated once you have a working prototype
• Use some consulting initially to get initial setup working
Key experiences – Usability
• Release 12 Self Service is a dramatic improvement
• Maintenance Supervisors can work solely in Self Service
• Personalisation can de-clutter Self Service
• Consider customisation for “pain points”
Questions ?
• Ask now if we have time
• Come see me afterwards
• Email me after the conference jeremy.carson@solidenergy.co.nz

Jeremy carson nz oracle user group presentation an overview of enterprise asset management

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    Introduction to OracleeAM (Enterprise Asset Management) and our implementation experiences Jeremy Carson Applications Manager
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    CMMS - ComputerisedMaintenance Management System Point Solution e.g. Maximo, Mexx or ERP Integrated Solution e.g Oracle E-Business Suite, JDE, Peoplesoft or Other e.g. Excel
  • 3.
    What do youhave ? ?
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    Agenda • Solid EnergyOverview • Key Configuration Steps • Asset Model • Maintenance Tasks • Work Management • Preventative Maintenance • Cost Management • Key experiences • Questions ?
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    Solid Energy Overview– Energy Business • Coal - Steel Production (Export / NZ Steel) Electricity Generation (Genesis) - Domestic Industries (Fonterra / Holcim / Alliance / Silver Fern) • Renewables – Wood pellets / Biodiesel / Solar • New Energy – Coal Seam Gas, Coal to Fertiliser
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    Solid Energy Overview- People • Approx 1200 employees nationwide, predominately in the Waikato, South Island West Coast and Southland • Approx 600 directly employed contractors
  • 8.
    Solid Energy Overview- Assets • An asset intensive business • High focus on Health and Safety • High focus on availability and utilisation of assets • Predominately Mobile and Fixed Plant assets
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    Solid Energy Assets- Excavators
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    Solid Energy Assets– Conveyors
  • 12.
    Solid Energy Assets– Underground Miners
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    Solid Energy Assets– Water Treatment Plants
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    Solid Energy Assets– Train Loadouts
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    Solid Energy Overview– Our eAM Install • Have used Oracle eAM since 2003 as an early adopter on Oracle EBusiness Suite 11.5.7 • Now using Oracle E-Business Suite 12.0.6 • Currently have 6 live Oracle eAM sites/organisations • System Statistics - 15,000+ work orders per annum 2000+ maintained assets 4000+ preventative maintenance activities 5000+ maintenance purchase requisitions per annum 10000+ maintenance inventory issues per annum
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    Configuration Steps –Taxonomy document • As part of solution design create a Taxonomy document, which defines; • eAM organization parameters e.g. default WIP Accounting Class • Key lookups e.g. Areas, Departments, Categories • Define standards and naming conventions for key setup areas - Asset Model e.g. Asset Number/Groups/Hierarchy/Categories - Maintenance Tasks e.g. Activities, Activity Type/Source/Cause - Work Management e.g. Work Order Type/Status/Priority - Preventative Maintenance e.g. Meters, Schedules • Taxonomy must understand system limitations e.g. Asset Number must be unique • Taxonomy is a living document…refine with subsequent implementations • Successful taxonomy makes system intuitive for users
  • 18.
    Configuration Steps –Solution Design document • Document how Oracle eAM will deliver each business process e.g. Asset Breakdown to Work Order creation • Swim lane the business process across business roles e.g. maintenance, procurement, stores • Detailed application mapping to requirements for each process step • Review regularly and iteratively with key maintenance personnel • Develop Proof of Concepts to assist with design validation and acceptance
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    Asset Model -Asset Numbers • • • • Asset Numbers are the key entity in eAM Mostly represent physical assets Can be virtual assets in asset hierarchy for roll-up/grouping Assets are setup either as a; - Capital Asset or - Rebuildable Inventory Components which rotate on/off Capital Assets and are repaired/refurbished in between. • Asset Numbers exist in separate register (using Oracle Install Base) than the Fixed Asset register • Asset Numbers can be linked to a single Fixed Asset Number TIP: Asset Numbers must be unique through the system Consider physical asset naming and common sites names
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    Asset Model -Asset Number screen
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    Asset Model -Asset Number screen
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    Asset Model -Asset Groups • Each Asset belongs to an Asset Group • Many key configurations driven by Asset Group - Asset Bills of Materials – Typical materials used for maintenance - Templates – Provides automatic creation of Preventative Maintenance configuration e.g. Activities, Meters, Schedules - Asset Attributes – Storage of additional asset information - Failure Analysis – Failure, Cause and Resolution • Define groups to represent virtually identical assets, in terms of materials and preventative maintenance e.g. Make and Model combination. TIP: Asset Groups must be unique through the system
  • 24.
    Asset Model -Asset Groups screen
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    Asset Model -Asset Hierarchy • Assets belong in a hierarchy • Each Asset has a Parent Asset • Establishes a roll-up mechanism for; - Cost reporting Preventative Maintenance forecasting Searches Maintenance and failure history • Virtual assets at top of hierarchy to deliver meaningful rollups; - Production or process affinity - Geographical or physical location
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    Asset Model -Asset Hierarchy screen
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    Maintenance Tasks -Activities • Activities are predefined Maintenance work to be completed • Generally routine work e.g. exchange pump, replace tyres or preventative maintenance work e.g. services / inspections • Activities define the following - Tasks – More detailed tasks of the predefined work - Bills of Materials – Required materials - Routings – Required labour or equipment - File attachments – Such as service sheet, diagrams, safety procedures • Create Activity Association Template to associate to an Asset Group or associate to an individual Asset
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    Maintenance Tasks –Activity Association screen
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    Work Management –Work Requests • Simple interface to capture reactive Maintenance work • Can go through approval process, then be assigned to Work Orders
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    Work Management –Work Requests
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    Work Management –Work Orders • Work Orders represent specific instances of Maintenance work for an asset • Created in the following ways; - Manually i.e. unplanned / corrective work - Automatically by Preventative Maintenance forecast - Automatically from Condition Based monitoring (via Oracle Quality) • Work Orders record maintenance history and planned and actual costs • Work Orders must have; - Asset associated - One or more Tasks i.e. Operations - Scheduled Start / End Time • Work Orders can have; - Predefined Work assigned i.e. Activity - Material requirements i.e. Stock, Non Stock, Requisitions - Labour requirements i.e. Trade resource
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    Work Management –Work Orders screen
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    Work Management –Work Orders screen
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    Work Management –Completion • Completion updates Last Service information e.g. 250hr service completed at 12,500 hrs on 01-Feb-2010 • Prevents further costs being coded to the Work Order • Captures the following information; - Actual Start and End time - Job Notes - Failure Analysis
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    Preventative Maintenance -Schedules • Define when activities should occur for an Asset or Asset Group • Defined to occur by; - Date Rules – every 7 days - Meter Rules – every 50 hours, 10000 km’s - List Dates – on 01-Jan-2011 • Work forecasts from Last Service Information i.e. when activity was last completed for the asset - Date Rules – on 01-Jan-2010 - Meter Rules – at 2000 hours - Combinations of the above • Single definition can schedule multiple activities which share a common base interval • Schedules can include suppression e.g. 250hr service suppresses 50hr service if its forecast within 20 hours of it
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    Preventative Maintenance -Meters • Meters used to schedule activities • Ascending meters e.g. kilometres, hours • Fluctuating meters e.g. temperature, pressure, vibration • Meter hierarchies allowing parent meter to increment children e.g. truck hours increments rim hours
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    Preventative Maintenance -Forecasting • Forecasting generates Work Orders as per schedules • Forecasts for a specified maintenance window e.g. next 14 days • Can perform online or as a concurrent program • Can selectively forecasts groups of assets
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    Cost Management –WIP Accounting Class (WAC) • WIP Accounting Classes (WAC) define accounting rules • Single GL accounts defined for Material and Resource transactions • Limited capability for complex accounting requirements • Default WAC for Organisation • Can be superseded by WAC configured against the at Asset, Activity or Work Order
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    Cost Management –Actual to Planned Costs • Planned Costs built up on Work Order using - Materials – Defaulted from Activity BOM or manually requested - Labour – Defaulted from Activity Routing or manually requested • Actual Costs accumulate on Work Order from - Stores inventory issues to Work Order - Purchase requisition (Direct Item) receipts - Maintenance Resource transactions - Invoice Price Variances (PO Matching) • Cost Analysis can then be performed in multiple ways, such as; - Asset using Hierarchy - Work Order - By Activity
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    Cost Management –Work Order costs
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    Key Experiences –What we have achieved • A single maintenance system throughout the organization • Better integration between stores and maintenance • Comprehensive asset and component history • Focus on preventative maintenance, driving better asset reliability • Better management of maintenance workload • Standardised asset information and maintenance procedures • Ability to analyse asset and maintenance department performance
  • 53.
    Key experiences –Maintenance Staff Involvement • Maintenance staff involvement essential throughout implementation lifecycle • Creates required buy-in for successful business transition and adoption • Select “right” person carefully - Positive / Seeks improvement i.e. this is something new, but we should use - Resilient / Can do attitude i.e. that not ideal but we can make it work - Well Respected i.e. will lead others to accept solution and advocate it • Ensure the maintenance team is well trained and supported once live
  • 54.
    Key experiences –Data load • Data load is manual, complicated and time consuming • Limited open interfaces - Items (Asset Group, Activities) / Asset Number / Meter Reading • Now several more APIs in R12 - Maintenance Object (Asset Number) / Activity / Preventative Maintenance • We have built custom Excel templates and used DataLoad utility • Have final dataset loaded for UAT, you will get many useful “corrections”
  • 55.
    Key experiences –Reporting • Standard reports are “limited” • Develop a custom Work Order, probably in BI Publisher now • Develop suite of reports to meet user requirements • We developed Discoverer reports, some examples; - Asset Hierarchy / History / Availability Asset / Work Order costing – by Hierarchy Asset / Work Order Material Requirements Asset Failure Analysis Key Performance e.g. Planned Versus Unplanned, Maintenance backlog Configuration reports e.g. BOMS, Activities, Schedules • Other off the shelf options worth investigating - Oracle eAM Daily Business Intelligence - Vizaya WorkAlign® Analytics - Signum EAM Analytics™
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    Key experiences –Subledger Accounting • “Get around” limitation of single material and labour GL accounts • We use Subledger Accounting to re-code; - Expense Account – Based on Item/PO Category - Asset Account – Based on Flexfield held against Asset Number • Not too complicated once you have a working prototype • Use some consulting initially to get initial setup working
  • 58.
    Key experiences –Usability • Release 12 Self Service is a dramatic improvement • Maintenance Supervisors can work solely in Self Service • Personalisation can de-clutter Self Service • Consider customisation for “pain points”
  • 59.
    Questions ? • Asknow if we have time • Come see me afterwards • Email me after the conference [email protected]