SAP PM Implementation

Industry: Oil & Gas

Location: Western Australia

Type of contract: Fixed fee, provision of professional services

Duration of contract: 18 months

Summary:

Transfield Worley Solutions conducted a review of the client’s operational and maintenance database in their legacy system to identify improvements of the data in preparation of migrating into SAP PM environment. The legacy system is made up of several major assets.

Following the review, Transfield Worley Solutions was asked to

• Rationalise current recurring maintenance activities on client’s legacy system, so that maximum benefits in implementing SAP PM can be achieved. This involved standardising recurring work orders where practicable and grouping maintenance activities together with planned frequencies, tools, time required by internal and external resources.
• Rationalise and align current coding on client’s legacy system into one corporate set.
• Create a functional location hierarchy from the flat line structure within the legacy system. This involved standardising and aligning with ISO and other relevant standards.
• To provide training in the use of SAP-PM in line with new business processes.
• To produce a Quality / Audit Plan which will ensure all relevant data will be replicated in SAP PM.
• Full documentation to support migration requirement decisions.

• Identify method of developing efficient recurring maintenance plans.
• Standardise Task Descriptions across each asset where possible.
• Ensure current PM Work Order scheduled dates are complied with.
• Maintenance Plan amendments continuously updated during implementation.
• Codes in current PM Work Orders unchanged
• Procedure contents and format unchanged.

• Functional Location / Bill of Material: Develop a hierarchy structure from the existing flat line structure. Reviewed all existing BOM’s, recommendations were made on future data quality improvements.
• Equipment Types / Classes / Characteristics: Develop a “corporate” list from the legacy systems, align with ISO and other relevant standards. Develop corporate templates and assign values for all equipment types and maintainable items.
• Catalogues: Develop a “corporate” list of object, damage and cause codes from the legacy systems, align with ISO and other relevant standards

The key benefits to the clients were:

• Standardise, align all facilities into one “corporate” system
• Standardisation across Facilities improves benchmarking possibilities
• Better coordination of maintenance actions and possible increase in system availability.
• Reduction in number of Work Orders created from recurring Maintenance Task Lists due to the rationalisation process.
• Reduced planning efforts by using pre-defined Operations from Maintenance Task Lists.