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Consolidating data systems and improved asset and predictive maintenance leads to smarter decision making with IBM Maximo and IBM Maximo 7 software.
My name is Ivan Jose. I am a technical lead for the SA Water Corporation in South Australia.
SA Water delivers water and wastewater services to 1.5 million people across the state of South Australia.
We've got approximately 9 billion worth of assets, and those assets vary in expected useful life from a few years to over 100 years. To manage those assets well, we have to have a very extensive data on the operating costs, on the services that those assets deliver and the reinvestment costs in order to make the correct asset management decisions to maximize the value of those assets.
SA Water as part of its recent Maximo implementation consolidated over 30 asset data systems into its Maximo system. Those systems ranged from the quite primitive, paper cards in a filing cabinet to our previous Maximo implementation. By doing this consolidation, we are able to apply consistent data standards and about our assets and also the work performed on those assets and this makes analysis of that data much easier and, therefore, you get better decisions out at the end.
SA Water's Maximo implementation—not only was it implementing the new technology; it was also implementing new business processes. Prior to the recent implementation, we had four regional business units that operated in relatively inconsistent fashions, which we were able to unify into a limited number approved processes which we can manage with workflows and business rules embedded in the system. This ensures that the data we get back from the field about our assets and about the work being performed is as consistent as possible, which improves the decision making that the asset managers make on the back of that.
One of the big areas of opportunity for us at SA Water using Maximo is in our preventive maintenance planning and scheduling. With Maximo's ability to integrate with other systems, we are looking to move away from a time-based preventive maintenance schedule to an as-needs basis from inputs from our other systems such as SCADA we can integrate into Maximo and only triggers preventive maintenance work when it's required.
At SA Water, our Maximo implementation has leveraged Maximo 7's configurability, the ease of configuration on delivering targeted solutions for different audiences. Within our business we have three major users of Maximo. They are the customer services center, the operations group and our asset management group. Within each of those groups, we are able to provide a window into Maximo which is presenting the user with relevant information for what they do next effectively in many instances.
We should be able to drive significant efficiencies with this.
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