Importance of a Sound Asset Register

For the effective and efficient Operation and Maintenance of Electricity Networks, a thoroughly constituted Asset Register is required with each asset accurately recorded. We help our clients to record the precise detail of the assets. For instance, the full detail of both overhead and underground are recorded. To only record the existence of the feeder is not enough, and therefore, we record the line or cables lengths in sub-metre accuracies, together with the full specifications of the appropriate feeder/conductor so that we are able to extract the data to conduct load-flow and/or fault studies with the greatest of accuracies. We eliminate the repetitive processes of sending teams out into the field to capture the network detail before a load-flow and/or fault study has to be done. With the detail that we capture the first time around, it becomes a simple process to transfer the data from the Enterprise Asset Management system where the greatest accuracy is now guaranteed.

We capture the assets' detail in such a way that our clients are able to pin-point each and every medium and low voltage pole, transformer, kiosk, streetlight position, etcetera. All the assets are linked by a parent-child relationship, which makes it possible to report on the accumulated costs at the parent level in the asset structure. The maintenance or repairs cost of a meter kiosk is thus rolled-up to the next level in the structure, and so on and so on until it reaches a point where it makes more sense to extract the accumulated costs into a report.

In essence, the asset register gives structure to the asset management system. Work and associated costs can be linked to the correct functional centre, including historical data such as failure data. A good asset register ensures that work is conducted more efficiently.

Performance Management

We help our clients to boost their service and maintenance effectiveness, which in turn, increases the organisation's financial and operational benefits substantial. To secure these benefits, take the following actions ought to be taken:

• Implement aggressive proactive maintenance strategies.
• Measure actual asset performance against established goals.
• Centralise management and control of asset maintenance.
• Educate financial management.
• Implement spare parts/MRO inventory planning solutions.

Inspection Management

The effective and efficient Operation and Maintenance of Electricity Networks depends on an efficient inspection process. It has been proven that regular Battery Inspections is a vital component in the successful operation of the Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Reticulation of Electricity.

Our team would help to set up the most appropriate set of inspection routes, specific objects that comprise a route and various triggers that generate work orders. We then define exactly what it is that has to be examined on a route (and on an individual object), how it has to be examined and the conditions under which it should be examined as well as any other criteria that our clients wish to apply. We would also set up inspections for a category of objects (like the Substations) or an individual object (Circuit Breaker or Battery).

GPS Coordinates

Old-fashioned cable-markers are no longer a requirement, since the routes of both medium and low voltage cables have been captured. The GPS coordinates of the cable-route now serves as cable-markers. Furthermore, cable-markers and intermediate poles have been captured as Linear References in the system, thus, giving the municipality a total view of the network with full flexibility for maintenance.