March 30 – April 2, 2008 - SAP-Centric EAM

CONFERENCE DAY 2: TRACK 1
Maintenance Effectiveness
& Reliability
While we are always looking at possibilities to improve planning
& scheduling capabilities, these usually involve a time and money
investment that does not always play out. The functional
approach to using SAP for routine maintenance planning and
scheduling requires at a basic level the following: 1) Maintenance
process 2) Maintenance procedures 3) Focused planners 4)
Emphasis on task lists created for repeatable work 5) Scheduled
control of release and schedules 6) Proper schedule update flows.
Lessons:
• Building your base with solid preplans and task lists which
include planning package documents
• Setting up the proper flows of planned work orders and operational/maintenance
priorities for scheduling by using order
status coding, estimation fields, and revision codes
• How to perform weekly and daily scheduling for routine maintenance
with a 1 scheduler to 150+ ratio without any bells and
whistles, just the SAP PM module
Original Go-Live Date: October 1998
Current SAP Release: 4.6C
1:20 - 2:20 TUESDAY
Scheduling in SAP
Presenters: Ed Robinson, EMG – Midwest Generation
& Gus McIntosh, Vesta Partners
Intermediate
In Q3 of 2007 EMG went live with an SAP EAM system solution
to support its evolving maintenance/reliability processes. This
was within a broader implementation that included SCM, Fuels
Management, HC and FICO. One of the goals of the EAM project
was only using standard functionality to improve existing
work practices laying a solid system foundation to support
future improvement objectives.
Key goals were to utilize SAP to further standardize on the weekly
schedule process and provide a basis for continuous improvement
across the seven coal powered generation stations. To meet
these objectives and ensure user adoption the end product had
to be robust, simple to use and allow planners/schedulers to
work more efficiently.
The completed transactional solution combined standard order/
operation list edit functions with capacity leveling/evaluation to
provide the means to prepare, review and communicate the
schedule. Measurement of schedule efficiency and performance
was measured through development of a custom BW report.
Lessons:
• Standard SAP Plant Maintenance & Capacity Leveling functions
can deliver an efficient scheduling process
• The set up of Capacity Leveling/Planning Board functions is
complex but with expert knowledge you can quickly implement
and develop the “right” solution
• A custom snap-shot and reporting tool is required to measure
and report on weekly scheduling performance
Original Go-Live Date: July 2007
Current SAP Release: ECC 6.0
CONFERENCE DAY 2: TRACK 2
EAM Process
Eff iciency Improvement
CONFERENCE DAY 2: TRACK 3
Usability, Access to
Information & ROI
experience
CONFERENCE DAY 2: TRACK 4
Vendor Track
2:30 - 3:30 TUESDAY
bOM Teams — An Equipment Commodity,
Reliability Approach
Presenter: Derek Astrike, Dow Corning
Beginner
Bill of Material (BOM) teams are designed to leverage existing
plant systems to improve efficiency, reliability, and maintainability
of segmented equipment commodities. These representatives
make up the teams: stock coordinator, reliability engineers,
tradesmen, and record administrator. The team’s focus
encompasses a wide breadth of facets related to BOMs. Starting
with ensuring asset nomenclature in SAP is standardized and
consistent, to defining current stock descriptions. The inventory
strategy is developed taking into consideration the number of
models, criticality, safety stocks, obsolescence, and consignment
options. Using vendor parts lists as a basis, the BOMs are built
and loaded into SAP, allowing them to be viewed and printed on
work orders. This information is then used to develop equipment
strategies for the equipment residing in a building.
Lessons:
• Consistency and standardization of the information provides
efficiency gains
• Sharing this information and developing strategies with the
person responsible for the equipment provides a proactive
approach to managing their equipment
• Tradesmen play a key role in ensuring the data integrity of the
BOMs remain once the project is completed
Original Go-Live Date: October 1998
Current SAP Release: ECC 5.0
10:05 - 11:05 TUESDAY
CONFERENCE DAY 2 — TRACK 2
EAM Process
Eff iciency Improvement
CONFERENCE DAY 2: TRACK 5
SAP Track
Leveraging Your Rental Equipment in SAP
Presenter: Bob Pennington, CITGO Petroleum
Intermediate
Renting equipment for maintenance work orders on a “one off”
basis is not difficult in SAP. Leveraging the same piece of rental
equipment across multiple work orders lends to a different challenge.
The cost of rental equipment in a maintenance environment
can be extremely high on a daily basis and can comprise a
large percentage of the overall maintenance budget. These costs
can be somewhat tempered if rentals are leveraged across multiple
work orders, which in turn will promote long term rentals.
The traditional challenge has been how to leverage long term
rentals while being able to track them in a plant and spread the
costs accurately across multiple orders. In this presentation, Bob
Pennington of CITGO Petroleum will enter into a discussion on
how CITGO Petroleum uses SAP to manage its rentals.
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