The GMAO and Stelar Relationship

Difficult to approach asset maintenance operations without addressing the issue of Computer-Assisted Maintenance Management (CMMS) or a module Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) at Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for an organization. This type of software provides great services to the maintenance manager, but also to the planners. Likewise, senior management will benefit from a CMMS, as the equipment will be more available for greater production.

It is an essential tool for planning, monitoring and managing maintenance operations in an organization. It also allows you to access a history of maintenance tasks, to schedule maintenance interventions, to monitor the inventory of components and to manage maintenance costs. However, most CMMS are rarely dynamic; it is particularly difficult to create or manage performance indicators. This is all the more true for CMMS integrated into an ERP.

The promise of GMAO/EAM is great: optimize resources by monitoring the time of personnel and spare parts; minimize downtime by submitting to the maintenance program in place; increase the life of equipment by minimizing the wear of parts through preventive or proactive maintenance; and optimize budget returns in relation to the ongoing monitoring of budgets. What organizations expect from their maintenance group is to have equipment available in order to comply with operational planning, which will make it possible to achieve the expected production.

For many organizations, adhering to maintenance programs is already a major step towards greater maturity in asset management. Digitization and automation of processes encourages staff to work effectively in line with the programs in place. Economic, social and environmental contexts require organizations to obtain a better understanding of the real condition of assets in terms of production performance, energy consumption and sustainability.

Primary processing plants in the mining sector are aging, as are port and rail infrastructures. Investments to replace or rebuild certain critical and major assets are large and sometimes illogical from an economic and ecological point of view. Especially since it has been proven that regular maintenance based on the real condition of the asset has the effect of extending the useful life of the assets.

In this context, it is more necessary than ever to adopt good asset management practices in connection with the organization's strategic planning. Although ISO 55,000 certification from the Institute of Asset Management (IAM) is not necessary, it still provides a framework of reference and a relevant procedure for making better strategic decisions.

One of the pillars of asset management is the knowledge of assets that allows us to act. In this context, the structured centralization of information offering a global view of assets makes it possible to support decision-making. This information is mostly scattered across different formats: CMMS, ERP, ERP, ERP, Excel budget files, Excel budget files, inspection software, PDF inspection report, data acquisition software (PI, vibration, oil...), etc. It is therefore a question of assembling the right information in order to establish the right information in order to establish trends in order to establish trends in order to establish trends in order to establish trends that feed business decisions in order to achieve the organization's strategic planning objectives. Stelar plays a very big role in this regard.

The definition of Stelar is as follows:

A platform based on asset integrity and reliability engineering practices that can help plan capital investments for an organization taking into account asset health, maintenance and growth budgets in addition to environmental aspects.

An APM+ is thus a platform for managing data across the entire lifecycle of an organization's assets, maximizing their use and minimizing their total cost of ownership. It makes it possible to collect, centralize and structure relevant data for high-value analyses and simulations. An APM+ helps to make well-documented decisions at all organizational levels and serves as an inter-level communication tool.

An APM+ platform like Stelar Does not replace GMAO/EAM. Both need each other to fulfill their promise to organizations, that is, to optimize the performance of equipment to achieve efficient operations with the fewest possible resources. In short, an APM+ is necessary to determine the real condition of an asset resulting in concerted and planned actions in the CMMS.

Both systems are essential for maintenance operations, knowing the condition of assets, planning and communicating KPIs via a dashboard. Obviously, the two systems don't compete, they play their respective roles.

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Maintenance operations

GMAO/EAM

Maintenance operations are the heart of GMAO/EAM. The software allows the maintenance manager to coordinate personnel activities and the acquisition of the required parts in order to properly execute the maintenance program. It is also essential to say that GMAO/EAM is an important tool for compliance with security standards.

STELAR

For its part, Stelar focuses on observations and measurements to diagnose and monitor assets. It is an integral part of maintenance operations. Forms that include a defect severity grid based on materials that structures the inspection operations of employees or subcontractors. Thus, the collected data allows maintenance professionals to adapt their program and future interventions.

Condition of assets

GMAO/EAM

Although some GMAO/EAM venture to offer functions for asset condition analysis, few are those based on an engineering approach in asset integrity and reliability. The vast majority of these systems help with the planning of maintenance programs only. They also keep track of maintenance activities. Thus, it is possible to go back to evaluate work orders during an unexpected outage, but reliability specialists rarely get the information they need to analyze and discover the cause. Other systems are in a position to calculate the availability of the asset and therefore to determine its productivity.

STELAR

The specialty of a product like Stelar is to determine the condition of an asset using directed forms, sensors (vibration, thermography, oil quality, temperature, thickness, etc.) and historical data for analysis. Stelar determines the asset health index based on the organization's risk matrix in addition to evaluating its residual life. The condition of the assets, the OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), the maintenance interventions and the events that occurred are collected, thus facilitating the work of reliabilists to establish a Root Cause Analysis(RCA). It is even more possible to compare inspection data to determine deterioration.

Investment planning

GMAO/EAM

Depending on the strategic planning of the organization and the maintenance budget, GMAO/EAM can offer excellent indicators for forecasting the costs of personnel use, consumables and downtime. The most established GMAO/EAMS have a component replacement cost structure, which makes it easy to project procurement operation costs for future maintenance.

STELAR

The tool categorizes the condition of assets based on the organization's risk matrix. As a result, investment priorities to mitigate risk, repair deficient components or replace an asset are pre-determined according to the organization's parameters. By compiling detailed information on asset integrity and reliability in addition to replacement value, Stelar consistently informed, rapid, and well-documented decisions on strategic issues. It offers an investment planning tool that enhances the strategic planning structure in asset management.

Communication of the KPIs

GMAO/EAM

The CMM/EAM dashboard provides an informed view of the status of maintenance operations. Generally, a dashboard displays the purchase orders that have been completed and those that remain to be done, the equipment that is stopped, the planning of the next steps, the monitoring of the maintenance budget, etc. This overview allows coordination with operations, etc. This overview allows coordination with operations.

STELAR

The data available on the Stelar dashboard is highly flexible in order to inform all decision-making levels. It consists of several layers of information ranging from a macro to micro view. We generally find the dollars to be invested according to risks, the GHG balance of assets, the GHG balance of assets, the list of urgent interventions, the residual life of assets, the health index of assets, the investments required to reduce risk, etc. This information will inform decisions for maintenance teams, operations, engineering projects and senior management.

Interconnection and interoperability

To reach or maintain a high level of maturity and thus support best practices in asset management, GMAO/EAM must be combined with an APM+ such as Stelar. To do this, it is essential to conduct an interconnectivity and interoperability study to determine what information will have to transact from one system to another depending on business processes. This work will make it possible to avoid duplication of information and to optimize the value of both.

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In addition, the maintenance manager, operations manager and senior management need centralized and structured data in order to analyze it. Thus, it is essential to build a centralized infrastructure that accommodates all relevant asset information, especially as Stelar to connect with different data sources (In And Out). The organization will thus have clear information generating Insights crucial to decision making.

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