Increase equipment reliability (and do more work with less people)
Network reliability, extending asset life and delivering customer satisfaction are three of the most important concerns for any firm working in the UK’s tightly regulated energy network.
Utilities (and their supply chain partners) must improve equipment up-time and longevity, reduce customer minutes lost and manage customer expectations in order to meet and exceed RIIO objectives. In an age of falling productivity and rising operational costs, they also have to find ways deliver more inspection and maintenance work with less people.
Our experience supports the general industry guidelines for smart asset management: if you know the condition of critical assets and standardise the plant and equipment registry then you can proactively manage the risk of critical equipment failure at less cost than traditional approaches.
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Proactive asset management is based on high quality structured data on the current and historic condition of your critical plant and equipment. The traditional use of paper job tickets and manual processes to capture mission critical asset information is impractical and outdated. Paperwork leads to unnecessary errors, non-compliant processes, loss of data and a breakdown in communication between the field and the back-office.
Traditional computerised maintenance management systems generate paper work orders and focus on pass/fail results (with supporting free-text comments). It is not enough to have efficient work execution management systems, true value comes from capturing and managing the condition of your plant and equipment every time a technician interacts with it.
If your technicians could easily capture more structured information using mobile devices, it would transform your maintenance planning. Modern mobile devices also let you photograph and compare asset conditions, video conference with subject matter experts when required and share asset information with the back-office in real time.
PHALANX Field Service and Logistics apps provide the asset management team with a fully mobile planning, data capture and data analysis solution. PHALANX acts as a ‘black box’ recorder of operational data. Analysing the structured data for failure trends and root-cause analysis will deliver predictive maintenance campaigns that significantly extend the life and reliability of your mission critical plant and equipment.
PHALANX integrates to your existing ERP and CMMS systems and removes the paper, error and delay from your plant inspection and maintenance routines.
Mobile apps are becoming more prominent in the utility industry. The quality and volume of data captured by mobile apps will improve efficiency and equipment up-time while their ease-of-use will improve technician ‘wrench time’ and back-office productivity.
Click below to read how PHALANX removed all unnecessary paperwork from Aggreko’s logistics operations, immediately eliminating all the associated delays and errors.
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