Case Studies
Strategic Maintenance Solutions (SMS) increased plant efficiency of NAEA, while at the same time increasing program effectiveness.
Situation:
North American Energy Alliance, LLC owns and operates several power generating assets in the northeastern United States. Like most power producing organizations, NAEA generates revenue when units are online or available. SMS helped increase the plant efficiency and uptime for NAEA, while at the same time increasing company wide information exchange and maintenance communication. The objectives of the SMS-led initiative were:
- Create a single EAM platform to support multiple plants and corporate structure
- Provide plants with a toolset for managing
- Maintenance process excellence
- Asset reliability
- Inventory
- Procurement
- Support corporate process standardization
Solution : SMS provided NAEA with a World Class EAM implementation based upon the IBM Maximo application platform. The implementation was designed to provide a cost effective, scalable solution that could meet the current EAM demands as well as future expansion into the power producing market. Program elements included:
- EAM strategy
- Application installation & configuration
- EAM workflow
- Enterprise systems integration
Results : The implementation was designed to roll-out across all NAEA plant assets in the United States. SMS achieved the following results:
- 90% increase in overall application effectiveness
- 60% efficiency increase in plant/corporate procurement processing
- Unified workflows for maintenance and purchasing
- Complete enterprise systems integration