Enterprise Asset Managment

eAM Overview:

Oracle Enterprise Asset Management is part of Oracle’s 11i E-Business Suite and addresses the comprehensive and routine asset maintenance requirements of asset intensive organizations.

Using eAM, organizations can efficiently maintain both assets, such as vehicles, cranes and HVAC systems, as well as rotable inventory items, such as motors and engines. To measure performance and optimize maintenance operations, all maintenance costs and work history are tracked at the asset level.

eAM helps companies track, depreciate, and maintain their fixed assets. eAM enables asset-intensive companies to adopt maintenance strategies that optimize capacity and increase utilization, while lowering unit production costs. It improves operation performance and enhances safety through preventive, scheduled maintenance.

Oracle eAM provides organizations with the tools to create and implement maintenance procedures for both assets and rebuildable inventory items. Maintenance procedures are an integral part of an organization’s complete asset lifecycle management strategy, enabling an organization to optimize asset utilization. eAM enables users to optimally plan and schedule maintenance activities with minimal disruption to an organization’s operations or production. Importantly, it improves resource efficiency, enhances maintenance quality, tracks work history, and records all maintenance costs.

Oracle eAM tracks the performance of assets (including rebuildable, inventory items) using meters, quality plans, and condition monitoring systems. By effectively monitoring an asset’s operating condition, effective preventive maintenance strategies can be implemented. In addition to creating preventive maintenance schedules, users can create alternative maintenance strategies for seasonal or production capacity changes.

eAM’s comprehensive maintenance functionality supports asset lifecycle strategies for asset intensive industries, including Metals/Mining, Manufacturing, Pulp/Paper, Petrochemicals, Facilities, and Education. eAM eliminates the need for spreadsheets and disparate data repositories, by enabling companies to manage reactive, planned, preventive maintenance, and adopt a centralized, proactive strategy for managing asset maintenance across an enterprise.


eAM enables an organization to do the following:
•Create a preventive maintenance strategy
•Maximize resource availability, including both equipment and labor
•Optimize scheduling and resource efficiency
•Integrate with Oracle’s E-Business Suite for enterprise-wide solutions.


Asset Maintenance Goals:

1. Increase Productivity : Create a Preventive Maintenance Strategy and Maximize Resource Availability.
2. Decrease Maintenance Costs :Optimize Scheduling and Resource Efficiency , Minimize Rework 3. Reduce Accidents and Penalties :Ensure Regulatory Compliance ,Increase Workplace Safety


Types of Maintenance:

Reactive :
Small organizations that do not have have Maintenance Planners practice reactive maintenance. As equipment fails, Work Orders are generated and crews are assigned. Materials when in short supply and ordered as needed cause delays in response time. There is little or no preventive maintenance.

Preventive :
Organizations that practice preventive maintenance place a high value on asset performance and availability. These organizations have Maintenance Planners that plan both long and short-term requirements for resources and materials. These organizations have robust preventive maintenance plans that ensure that the assets are maintained on a regular basis to decrease the risk of failure.

Predictive
Organizations that are driven by heavy production demands or regulatory compliance invest heavily in predictive maintenance practices. The behavior and performance of assets is observed based on capacity requirements, engineered capabilities, maintenance strategies, and failure rates. These organizations employ a group of people to create a Reliability Centered Maintenance practice. These groups monitor an asset’s performance and capture data such as Mean Time between Asset Failures and Mean Time to Repair. This data then helps the maintenance organization better strategize their PM programs.


eAM Functionality:
1. Asset Managment.
2. Work Managment.
3. Inventory Managment.
4. Asset Performance and Forecasting.
5. Maintenance Budgeting.
6. Predictive Maintenance.
7. Maintenance Intelligence.

Integration with Other Modules:

Oracle Enterprise Asset Management is part of the Oracle E-Business suite, and directly integrates with Oracle Manufacturing, Oracle Purchasing, Oracle Property Management, Oracle Quality, Oracle Inventory, Oracle Human Resources, Oracle Financials, Oracle Fixed Assets, and Oracle Projects.

This enables you to strategically monitor resource and cost planning throughout the enterprise. Improvement programs can be enforced and reviewed to ensure compliance with industry standards by tracking problems through to resolution.

A well-planned maintenance environment depends on the ability of key personnel to view available inventory items, equipment, and skilled personnel. Because eAM is an enterprise solution, you can view the resource availability for assets that are used by operations and coordinate maintenance work to minimize operation disruption. Most importantly, Oracle eAM is designed for the maintenance user who performs the work. Using Oracle’s Maintenance User, trades people and supervisors with minimum training can easily perform their work.

Required Products
To implement Enterprise Asset Management, you must have the following required products installed:
•Oracle Inventory
•Oracle Bills of Material
•Oracle Human Resources
•Oracle Cost Management
•Oracle Manufacturing Scheduling
•Oracle Quality
•Oracle Work In Process
Optional Products

To implement Enterprise Asset Management, the following products are not required; however, they are useful in the overall robust eAM solution:
•Oracle Master Scheduling/MRP
•Oracle Property Management
•Oracle Financials
•Oracle Fixed Assets
•Oracle iProcurement
•Oracle Projects
•Oracle Project Manufacturing
•Oracle Purchasing
•Oracle Order Management
•Oracle Time and Labor .


eAM Business Flow :

Work Requests Entry
•Location, Asset ID, Owner Action/Activity, Current Work Alert, Condition Based Alert

Work Order Generation
•Work Order Types, Owners, Locations, BOMs, Standards, Copies, Assets, Components, PMs, Preplans

Task Planning
•Task level planning, Dependent Steps

Material Request
•BOM by Location, Asset Category, Component, Procurement, Catalogs, PO Detail, Item Statuses/Location Directs, Services, Rentals, Receipts

Resource Planning
•Assigned Owner, Crew, Craft, Skill Search/Selection, Duration, Contractors

Forecasting
•Asset Schedule/Availability, Capacity Performance, Work Impact on Production, Future Work, Budget Impact

Work Scheduling
•Workbenches with User Defined Filters for Folders and Sorts, Forecasted PMs, Available Resources, WO Generation, Project Scheduling

Work Order Update and Close Out
•Time Entry, Meter Readings, Inspection Data, Notes, Component Meter Reading.

Asset Performance
•Cost History, Work History, RCM Analysis, Design Capacity/Actual Performance, Predictive Maintenance, KPIs, Trending Analysis, Inspection History, Event Tracking, Capacity Impact.

Non-maintenance personnel within an organization report problems as Work Requests. The Work Request is then routed for approval and a Maintenance Planner is alerted to the need for repair or services.

The planner conducts a walk through to estimate the materials and trades people needed to conduct the repair. Some repairs may require that an asset be shutdown or brought into the shop. In such cases, the planner meets with Operations to determine the most appropriate time to remove the asset from service with minimal impact on production.

When the planner has determined the resources, materials, equipment, and time needed to perform maintenance, the Work Order is assigned to the crew that executes the work. Crew Supervisors pull the schedules defined by planners and assign the Work Order to the tradesperson.

Materials are issued, requisitions are generated, and time is entered against the Work Order operation as tasks are progressing. When the task is completed the tradesperson may enter additional information about the work as well as meter and inspection reading conducted during the course of the work. The Work Order is then closed.

Roles:

Enterprise Asset Management Administration :
The Enterprise Asset Management Administration role contains people who are generally responsible for entering information, often for other maintenance employees.
Information entered may include Work Order resource transactions, Work Order completion details, and Time and Labor hours. This person might have limited maintenance knowledge and is generally responsible for supporting the maintenance department by handling information entry.

Enterprise Asset Management User:
The Enterprise Asset Management User is anyone in an organization who may access eAM. This might include an employee who uses Work Requests to report problems, a Plant Manager who accesses eAM to review high cost assets and their work history, as well as a Maintenance User, such as a technician who accesses the Maintenance User Workbench to review his/her daily work assignments.

Self-Service Work Requests User :
The Self-Service Work Requests User is a person in an organization, often an employee (not involved in the maintenance department), who uses Work Requests to report maintenance problems. This person also uses Work Requests to check the statuses of problems that he/she has reported.

Maintenance User :
The Maintenance User is a maintenance person who is generally responsible for completing tasks that are assigned on a Work Order. This person reports maintenance problems using Work Requests, troubleshoots on jobs, and works on a team with other maintenance workers.

Maintenance Super User
The Maintenance Super User is generally a Maintenance Planner or Supervisor and is often defined as a "super user". A Maintenance Planner plans and schedules maintenance jobs, manages and balances work loads over time, manages preventive maintenance strategy and scheduling, manages material requirements, monitors availability, and coordinates strategies with other departments, such as Operations, Purchasing, and Inventory. A Supervisor manages a crew of maintenance workers, assigns jobs based on workers’ abilities and availability, inspects and verifies work, communicates with other departments, knows the current status of all jobs and assets, and is responsible for environmental health and safety.

This person has extensive knowledge of the Enterprise Asset Management system and is responsible for creating and scheduling Work Orders, including Preventive Maintenance Work Orders. This person updates Work Orders, orders parts, and completes operations and Work Orders.


for more information go through the eAM Userguide.