Asset Management
Asset owner/operators are facing ever increasing pressure on operating results emerging from globalization, costly resources, stricter regulations and ageing assets and workforce. These unique challenges have put pressure on owner/operators to review their processes in terms of the development, use and care of their assets. Traditional approaches to asset lifecycle management are insufficient to address these strategic concerns.
Over the last decade, companies have implemented asset management solutions to get a grip on the development, operation and maintenance of production assets. However, asset management cannot reach its full potential without proper management of asset information of all production assets.
Our Asset Information Management solution provides a single, integrated source of your company’s information related to your assets, projects and documents. Effective management of this critical asset information allows you to improve profit levels, ensure 24/7 uptime of your assets, improve production efficiency and ensure compliance to regulations.
Connecting Engineering & Maintenance
A daily challenge for asset owner/operators is maintaining the operational excellence of revenue generating assets. The asset information is managed in an as-built structure by the engineering department. In many asset-intensive companies a gap often occurs between the information the maintenance department holds and the original as-built data managed by the engineering department.
The gap between maintenance and engineering asset information may lead to multiple teams working on the wrong document versions and inefficient use of staff time searching for documents. Ultimately, if these issues are not addressed they may increase the risk of accidents and unplanned process downtime.
Our solutions help your maintenance staff to always have access to accurate, as-built information. This helps reduce accidents and decrease process downtime improving the operational excellence of your revenue generating assets.
Benefits
- Intuitively find technical documents using an asset identifier as a search key
- Identify which set of documents is subject to change due to a plant change
- Improved quality (completeness and reliability) of technical asset information and as-built data
- Better compliance with quality, environmental and legal regulations
- Seamless handover of engineering data
- Reduced costs of production, maintenance and engineering
- Increased production through shorter unplanned process downtime and stop preparation
“We believe the BlueCielo Asset Management Module will bridge the gap between Maintenance and Engineering and that the immediate access to relevant technical information will help us to decrease unplanned process downtime, thereby increasing our productivity. I believe this module, along with BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise, will aid in Gerdau Ameristeel’s continued growth and success in the years to come.”
– Kevin Smith, IT Director, Gerdau Ameristeel