Driving Operational Efficiency with an end-to-end CMMS for an Oil and Gas Leader
An end-to-end computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) is vital for oil and gas companies to improve asset reliability and availability, reduce costs, improve safety, and comply with regulations. An integrated CMMS helps oil and gas companies save costs and enhance operational efficiencies.
Infosys has vast experience in implementing CMMS for a variety of energy companies ranging from oil and gas to wind energy. With this expertise, Infosys partnered with an oil and gas company to deliver a scalable framework of CMMS master data governance for their maintenance, reliability, and integrity business across the globe.
“Asset-intensive companies face large-scale digitization initiatives on their Industry 4.0 journey. Having the right services provider is critical to manage the scope of IT-OT convergence for a global enterprise.”
– Andrew Meyers, Research Director, Worldwide Oil and Gas IT Strategies at IDC
– Andrew Meyers, Research Director, Worldwide Oil and Gas IT Strategies at IDC
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Client Brief
The client is one of the world's largest integrated oil and gas major. The client needed an end-to-end CMMS for the standardization of data governance across their global operations. They wanted a solution that would provide seamless user experience to encourage rapid adoption across their operations worldwide.
Infosys Solution
The Infosys solution supports the entire spectrum of the client’s CMMS activities ranging from maintenance asset definition, criticality assessment, equipment strategy definition and planning, and scheduling of maintenance. We also implemented a robust SAP UI5 application that has an overarching intuitive approach toward request management as well as CMMS data governance of master data such as materials, equipment, bills of material (BOMs), maintenance plan, functional location, and task lists.
Business Benefits
The implementation of an end-to-end CMMS system helped the client standardize their data governance processes across business units – upstream as well as downstream. Having a centralized system and processes in place enabled the client to carry out continuous assessment and undertake improvement of their asset and maintenance data.
Standardization and automation further freed up their teams to identify opportunities to optimize data quality in terms of completeness, consistency, and quality. With better data quality, the client gained greater visibility and predictability into their maintenance costs. Streamlining and automating the maintenance management system and providing a state-of-the-art user experience with SAP UI5 led to increased adoption amongst business users. The scalable UI5 platform with robust architecture enabled the growth of the client’s business units.
Overall, the Infosys-led CMMS implementation empowered the client to streamline their data governance across their business network while providing a seamless work interface for their users.
Sriram Sundar, Vice President and Business Head - Energy Core, Infosys
