RCMO

Reliability Centered Maintenance & Optimization

For SAP Service and Asset Management

Meridium Customers in Chemical Industry include

Common Business Drivers

Protect people and the environment Cut maintenance & operational costs Increase availability and throughput Consume less energy Eliminate losses Meet production schedules Maintain product quality

Reliability Reliabilitydirectly directly impacts impactsall allof ofthese! these!

Brief History of RCM

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a proven methodology for developing effective maintenance strategies. For decades, manufacturers have used RCM to:
Improve operational reliability Optimize equipment performance Make better design and lifecycle decisions Control risk

RCM was first applied commercially in the 1960s in the airline industry
As a result, todays planes are over 100x more reliable

Why use RCMO with SAP EAM?

SAP EAM focuses on the efficient execution of:
Maintenance Planning & Scheduling Maintenance Work Spare Parts Management Maintenance History and Reporting

RCMO focuses on effectiveness, and answers the question

How do you know youre doing the right maintenance?

SAP / RCMO Workflow

SAP EAM
Equipment Master Data Maintenance Planning Maintenance Execution & Documentation

BW
Maintenance Analysis

RCMO

FMEA Strategy Definition

Optimize Strategies

System Definition

Risk Evaluation

Strategy Evaluation
Establish Evaluation Criteria

RCM

Condition Monitoring
(Future Integration)

Operator Rounds Condition Monitoring

Operational Performance Evaluation

RCMO looks like this

TransAlta Case Study

KEY CHALLENGES
RCM done at 2 facilities in point solutions

Program localized, no sharing of information No common methodology for RCM

TransAlta: Canadian Utility consisting of:

8,444 megawatts (MW) of capacity and an additional 540 MW under development. 49 facilities in four regions: Canada; the U.S.; Mexico; and Australia

PROJECT OBJECTIVES
Common maintenance strategies fleet wide Understanding critical assets and overall risk Optimize O&M costs Increased plant reliability and availability

WHY RCMO WAS SELECTED

Integration to existing portal for fleet wide accessibility Repository for all analyses to leverage across sites Integration with SAP EAM and BW Ability to do RCM and FMEA in one system

TransAlta Quotes
Our staff work in SAP every day and with RCMO bolted-on and widely available, we can drive the RCM methodology and culture harder and deeper into our organization. Ramp-up went much more smoothly than we could have hoped for. Our IT Project Manager said this was one of the best enterprise software installations she had seen, either production or ramp-up. The Meridium team made commitments to deliver a scope of work by a certain date and met that commitment. Richard Brittin Manager of Reliability & Performance

For more information

Product Information

www.rcmo.com
Meridium
Brad Broughton, VP Sales (bbroughton@meridium.com) 540.344.9205 x1180

SAP Solution Management

Len Harms (len.harms@sap.com) and Hajo Lockermann (hans.joachim.lockermann@sap.com)