Agulhas uses a scalable, Web-based Enterprise Asset Management solution that provides a foundation for informed decision-making in regard to facilities and Infrastructure Asset Management, multi-year capital budgeting, capital project planning and functional adequacy.
Our solution offers extensive configurability and flexibility, containing robust features for application integration, asset data management and user-defined metrics and reporting.
Asset management is a process that requires the ability to manage, maintain and track assets, such as equipment, buildings, vehicle fleets, roads and pipelines, from purchase to disposal and to use asset data to operate more efficiently and make better business decisions.
Our system’s base modules consist of the following:
- Labour Management
- Material Management
- Work Management (documents association to outside sources)
- Preventive Maintenance
- Purchasing
- Performance Analystics (user definable KPIs and Inbox)
- Inspection Management
- Project Management
- Call Centre Management
Features
The system’s business-specific modules and unique features include:
- Assets — enable companies to identify, track, locate, and analyse their physical assets and facilitate metered usage measurement and automatic usage value transmission to sub-components. By compiling asset data, such as location, cost history, warranties, claims, meters, permits and documents, the Asset module helps maximise productivity and asset life.
- Asset hierarchy management — allows users to track asset costs and the movement of assets throughout their respective lifecycles. This is done using an easily configured “family tree” that forms relationships between equipment, systems and locations.
- Asset management services — allow definition of time, material and labour costs in cost-charging arrangements and then apply cost charges to commercial agreements for maintenance organisations that operate as a business unit and charge customers for maintenance work they perform.
- Audit trails — provide a flexible way to track changes to data, comments and attributes for almost every table. In the regulatory environment, this module is of exceptional value because of its comprehensive coverage, flexibility and ease of use.
- Budget management — automates budget setup and the subsequent capture, monitoring, control and analysis of associated maintenance expenditures.
- Call centre — provides the ability to centralise incoming maintenance requests from a broad and diverse customer base and empowers operators and customer service representatives by putting all the information needed to handle maintenance, service and asset management requests right at their fingertips. This module also ensures that all necessary information is gathered from the caller to successfully complete the request.
- Depreciation — provides the ability to calculate and display any of four asset depreciation methods including straight-line, double declining rate, sum-of-the-years-digits and units of production.
- Inbox and scorecard with KPIs — are offered on the home page. The Inbox functions as a “to-do” list that allows individuals users to specify automatically generated numerical counts of items awaiting action such as requisitions or work orders. The scorecard displays a graphical depiction of KPI status based on user-specified parameters. Through KPIs, users can define and monitor asset performance indicators, such as mean time between equipment failures, without having to run reports.
- Inspection management — working in concert with work and asset management, this module gives you more control over condition monitoring. When an inspection result exceeds a preset limit, the automatic generation of corrective work actions is enabled.