Importance of a Top-Class Asset Register
The effective and efficient management of Power Generation, National Transmission and Distribution Networks are dependent on a Top-Class Asset Register. For the purposes of Failure Mode and Effect Analysis, the Asset Register must hold all the nameplate detail about a particular asset in an exact hierarchical structure — Assets, Positions, Systems or Locations.
Not only is it important for keeping the appropriate history about maintenance, but it has to cater for many other requirements. For instance, the detail must be such that values required for load-flow and/or fault studies can be easily calculated from the detail contained in the Asset Register, making it a simple process of running load transfer scenarios or doing protection settings far more frequently.
Agulhas offers the ideal service solution for creating a Top-Class Asset Register and the necessary tools and assistance in managing the life-cycle of Power Generation, National Transmission and Distribution Network assets. With our assistance, our clients are ensured that required service levels are achieved and maintained. This allows us — in collaboration with each of our clients — to:
- Evaluate asset performance;
- Trace assets for security and control purposes;
- Assess risk profiles; and
- Assess the contribution made by the assets to service delivery objectives.
Project Management
Our Enterprise Asset Management system makes it ideal to help manage projects. Project schedules can be uploaded to integrate with the assets' current maintenance plans to form an integrated asset management plan.
Contractors & Work Management
Our Enterprise Asset Management system has several very powerful features to manage employees and contractors. It also includes features to manage Permits, Qualifications, Trades, Crews and more. Special Tools are handled in a similar manner. It all helps to provide the necessary estimations to develop appropriate contracts and work management tools to ensure efficiency of operation.
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).
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.
- Centralise management and control of asset maintenance.
- Educate financial management.
- Implement spare parts/MRO inventory planning solutions.