Energy and infrastructure
When the availability of the asset is literally the business, managing the operation stops being a support function and becomes a financial one. This is the ground where ISO 55001 and life-cycle cost analysis prove their worth, and where remote data replaces the inspection round.
What we find in this sector
Assets of high unit value with useful lives of decades and investment decisions that are hard to reverse.
Availability as a direct revenue variable: every hour of unavailability has a known price.
Contractual and regulatory requirements for operation, maintenance and reporting.
Geographically distributed installations, difficult to supervise and expensive to visit.
A great deal of data captured and few decisions taken with it.
The need to justify the multi-year investment plan to owners or lenders.
Operating model and organisation of the field teams, with a management routine and defined decision levels.
Standardisation of operating and intervention procedures across distributed installations.
Planning of interventions to maximise availability during the highest-value hours.
Sizing of in-house resources against external contracting by geographical area.
Management of the strategic spare parts store and of replenishment lead times.
Asset management system to ISO 55001 and strategic asset management plan.
Life-cycle cost models and investment decision support.
Criticality analysis and analysis of asset-related risk.
Predictive maintenance plans and condition-based strategies.
Audit of operation and maintenance contracts.
Renewal plans and obsolescence management.
Remote monitoring of distributed assets and alarm management with an associated protocol.
Implementation of MES/CMMS systems (MES/GMAO) able to operate across a portfolio of dispersed installations.
Integration with SCADA and with the remote metering systems.
A dashboard covering availability, output and cost by installation and by portfolio.
Data analysis models to anticipate the degradation of critical assets.