IBM Pulse 2013 session 1861 presented by Projetech
1. How Infigen Tracks Assets
Blowing in the Wind
Randy Barnes - Infigen Energy
Julie Shaw - Projetech
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2. Introductions
Randy Barnes
Infigen Energy
Director of Operations
Randy.Barnes@infigen-us.com
Julie Shaw
Projetech
Project Manager
jshaw@projetech.com
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3. Agenda
Projetech Background
Infigen Energy Background
Maximo at Infigen Energy Background
Projetech Role
Tracking Assets with Maximo v75
Operations Control Center – Service Requests
Questions
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4. Projetech
Privately held company established 1990
Maximo® Cloud Service provider (SaaS & Hosting)
Support more than 100 Maximo systems in our secure,
private cloud.
Thousands of users covering the US and International
Maximo services and support provider
IBM Premier Business Partner
CMRP Certified Personnel
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5. Industries Served
Government
Manufacturing
Energy
Facilities
Life Sciences
Health Care
Telecom
Transportation/Fleet
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7. Infigen Energy
Infigen Energy ("Infigen") is a leading independent renewable energy business with interests in 24
wind farms (1,646 MW installed capacity) across the United States and Australia.
Founded in June 2003 and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in October 2005.
A leading US renewable energy business
Large operational wind energy business (1,089MW) with
18 operating projects in 9 states
Actively developing utility scale wind and solar projects
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas 150 US employees
>75% of capacity post warranty – most with in-house operations & maintenance
Australia’s leading specialist renewable energy business
Leading operational wind energy business (508MW)
Diversified, high quality wind energy development pipeline
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9. Whole of Life Asset Management
Development &
OEM Warranty Post OEM Warranty Repower / De-commission
Construction
Plant Manager
Generation Asset • Management of site safety – relentless pursuit of zero harm
• Planned Maintenance
• Management of the generation site, balance of plant, 3rd party service providers
& shared facilities
• Management of local asset stakeholders (land owners, neighbours, regulators)
Asset Managers
• Whole of life service level planning, management & improvement of asset performance
Core Focus - • Performance management of assets / alignment of KPIs – optimise operations
and minimize costs
management of the • Provision of regional field services – legal, commercial and regulatory
assets performance • Secure corporate support and/or, management of regional resources
over the entire
lifecycle Corporate Support Team
• Centralized Operations Control Center – 24 x 7 management of operations
• Security of supply & Supply Chain Management issues – regulators, suppliers, advisors
• Commercial decision support (power marketing) and data analytics
• Strategic stakeholder management – owners, manufacturers, industry
• Asset administration (finance, tax, HR, IT, compliance) and reporting services
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10. Maximo at Infigen Background
Maximo v6 was implemented in 2007
Babcock & Brown
Bluarc
Implementation focused on purchasing and inventory
Wind turbine major components were not serialized
Challenging to track maintenance and moves both b etween
turbines and between farms
Relied on vendor invoices to review maintenance and move
histories.
Work orders rarely used
Maintenance costs not easily tracked
Operations Control Center did not use Maximo
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11. Projetech Role
Projetech provided services in 2011-12 to
implement Maximo v75 with new business
processes to attain superior tracking.
V75 installed as a new implementation rather
than upgrading existing data
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12. Implementation Objective
Provide an improved asset work and move
history
Capture lifetime repair costs
Standardize data
Reduce system complexity
Incorporate the existing OCC Master Log into
Maximo
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13. V75 Implementation
Rotating Items / Assets
Work Orders
Inventory Enhancements
Purchasing - Services and Items
Invoicing
Service Requests
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28. Operations Control Center (OCC)
The OCC monitors and operates the entire US fleet of
wind turbines, balance of plant systems and electrical
interconnection facilities
Used an elaborate spreadsheet to track reported events
and communications (call outs) to the Sites
With a shared Outlook mailbox maintaining history of call
outs, which was not easily searched.
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29. The OCC and Maximo V75
Created the Infigen Event Ticket application to record and
manage events across farms
Clone of Service Requests.
Communication Templates provide an easy method of
distributing email messages with applicable data
Effortlessly communicate with those who need to know without
searching through a group email account for message threads
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