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Maximo 6 / Syclo in Northern Ireland Electricity Mobile Substation Inspections

Maximo 6 / Syclo in Northern Ireland Electricity Mobile Substation Inspections Sam Gibson C.Eng MIET IBM Pulse 2010 February 2010, MGM Grand, Las Vegas. Today’s Presentation. Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) uses Maximo functionality to deliver asset management of its substation plant.

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Maximo 6 / Syclo in Northern Ireland Electricity Mobile Substation Inspections

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  1. Maximo 6 / Syclo in Northern Ireland Electricity Mobile Substation Inspections Sam Gibson C.Eng MIET IBM Pulse 2010 February 2010, MGM Grand, Las Vegas

  2. Today’s Presentation • Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) uses Maximo functionality to deliver asset management of its substation plant. • Maximo is key to the delivery of our work programme. • Implementing a mobile solution for substation inspections using Maximo and Syclo. • Future development of mobile working into other areas within NIE, using Maximo and Syclo.

  3. Northern Ireland • Northern Ireland, part of the UK, population of 1.7M people. Capital city is Belfast, with a population of 580,000. • Traditional industries: agriculture, textiles, shipbuilding and aircraft manufacture. • Significant economic growth following thirty years of political unrest. • Famous for…Bushmills Whiskey, the Titanic, Harry Ferguson, the pneumatic tyre, CS Lewis, the de Lorean, and golf! • Modern industries: tourism, IT, aerospace and pharmaceuticals.

  4. Northern Ireland Electricity • NIE is part of the Viridian Group, owned by Arcapita. • Viridian turnover was £2250M in 2009, with NIE contributing regulated income of £233M. • NIE has sole responsibility for Transmission and Distribution of electricity to 800,000 customers in Northern Ireland. • NIE Infrastructure (the wires business) includes Customer Operations, Lines & Cables Product, and Plant Product.

  5. Viridian Group PES Contracting NIE Energy NIE Infrastructure Huntstown Power Energia Plant Customer Operations Lines & Cables Networks Maximo Group Structure

  6. Plant Product • Designs, constructs and maintains substations (switchyards) across Northern Ireland. • Installed network:- • 9 x 275/110 kV (with 2 new sites planned) • 41 x 110/33kV (with 3 new sites planned) • 210 x 33/11kV • 8,500 Secondary Distribution (Ground Mounted) • Determines maintenance policy. Moving towards RCM / CBM policies and practices. • Maximo as Asset Register / Work Management system.

  7. Maximo in Plant Product • Introduced as version 3 in 1997 to bring together Distribution data (up to 33kV) from 3 legacy databases. • Upgraded in 1999 for Y2K compliance to version 4. • Transmission data (110kV and 275kV) transferred from En Garde in 2002. • Integrated with Job Management System in 2004. • Delivered via Citrix in 2005. • Upgraded in 2008 to version 6.2.1 (pending 6.2.4) • Around 20 pending projects to further harness Maximo.

  8. Sam Gibson • Primary role as Manager, Asset Group, developing Maintenance Policy, and managing delivery of maintenance to all NIE substation plant and equipment. • Electrical Engineer / Six Sigma Black Belt. • Part of the original team delivering version 3. • System administrator / sponsor. • Committee member Maximo UK & Ireland User Group.

  9. Version 6 upgrade • 3 stakeholders…NIE, IBM and Northgate Information Systems (NIS), the desktop provider for NIE. • Implemented in IE6 within a Citrix environment. • Circa. 50 users, across 7 locations. • Upgrade drivers…IT resilience, legislative requirements, jumping off point for further development. • Significant issues with upgrade…went live in June 2008, but issues only finally to be resolved with imminent patch to 6.2.4! • Mobile project delayed until core system stable.

  10. Mobile Inspections • Replaces 10,000 paper inspections per year. • Initial deployment of 20 devices. • Digital image collection, for immediate action on defects. • 3G infrastructure, backed up by docking as required. • Maps, diagrams, ISO procedures in the field. • First pass removes clerical resource requirement of 1.5FTE.

  11. Project Drivers • Large number of existing defects in system from paper based inspections. • Defects attached to SITE level and not specific locations or assets. • Defect coding included in Work Order description as free text. • Significant risk of asset failure due to defects not being addressed. • Little visibility of critical risks among ‘white noise’ of volume of defects.

  12. Pole Mounted Substation

  13. Package Substation

  14. Package Substation

  15. Primary Substation

  16. Transmission Substation

  17. Mobile solution options • Syclo. • Maximo Mobile. • 3rd party software. • Desire for low risk option. • Experience of integrating with Maximo 6 critical. • Functionality needed is diverse. • Communications…3G, docking…or TETRA?

  18. Project Structure • NIE project managing. • Competitive tender issued. • NIS in support role around IT / communications infrastructure. • 3 main bidders…all IBM Maximo partners. • Contract awarded to Vetasi. • Experience of Syclo / version 6 implementation a key.

  19. Choice of Device • Screen size…suitable for maps / documents. • Ruggedness. • Battery life…want to achieve a full working day. • Camera facilities. • Communications options. • Security options. • Operating system. • Weight.

  20. Motion F5 • Semi-rugged. • Excellent handwriting recognition. • With spare battery, full day working. • Integrated camera. • Integrated 3G / GPRS and • docking with wireless option. • View Anywhere display. • Vista or XP. • Solid State Drive.

  21. Hardware Architecture • Maximo hosted by NIS. • Currently on 3 servers…application, database, and reporting. • New server purchased for Syclo (although could have been installed on reporting server). • New server in ‘DMZ’. Firewalls either side. • All under Disaster Recovery protocols. • Maximo soon to be virtualized.

  22. Hardware Architecture Syclo Server Maximo Database Server Internal Firewall External Firewall

  23. Solution Design • Routes object built and integrated with Maximo to generate Route from location hierarchy. • Multiple ‘transparent’ inspections per site, one for each location / asset. • New defect Work Orders based on inspection Job Plan tasks. • New Work Orders use Failure Code to identify defect. • Inspection routine presents existing defects to user for confirmation.

  24. Preparatory Work • Existing defect Work Orders cleansed, and re-allocated (from site to location / asset). • Location and asset hierarchies rebuilt to provide a one-to-one relationship for locations and assets. • Location hierarchy simplified at indexing level. • All above applied to clean copy of live database. • Syclo pointed at development server.

  25. Hierarchies

  26. Solution Design (2) • For each new defect, user can choose to take digital image(s). • Site attributes confirmed…or updated from Maximo domains. • Assets for each site displayed…user can record where asset data is incorrect. • Incorrect assets workflowed as report to clerical support. • Inspections issued via Assignment Manager.

  27. Solution Design (2) 10303648 Castlereagh Main 16/03/09 STARTED 10000620 Ballymena East 24/05/09 RECEIVED 10096641 Carsons Meadow 18/07/09 RECEIVED

  28. Solution Design (2) SITE ROLL GRID SITE CONFIGURATION LOCHRIN (EXP HV - A4/K4/K SECURITY RISK LOW FIRE RISK NORMAL

  29. Solution Design (2) CASTLEREAGH MAIN CT (RED) CT UNKNOWN1994 CASTLEREAGH MAIN IBTx1 ALSTOM 240MVA 275/110KV PTG 1738/011998 CASTLEREAGH SEC TX 1200KVA 6.6/.416KV UNIDARE G72 0031984

  30. Solution Design (2) Equipment oil leak OP1 50003172 10360984 Oil leak on front side under identification plate

  31. Defect Management • Coded, rather than free text, output from Syclo. • Defects attached to relevant assets and locations. • Escalations and Workflow used to route defects to the relevant resource. • Where defects are not resolved, Maximo provides escalation through the organisation. • Currently poor visibility of defect; some of these defects will be safety critical. • Longer term – integrated GIS to allow effective area working.

  32. Work Order - old

  33. Work Order - new

  34. Future work • Extend inspections to cover large sites (9 only). • Consider use of Service Requests for defects rather than Work Orders. • Develop use of Maximo priorities. • Implement all substation maintenance on mobile devices. To include field entry of test results and measurements. • Embed mobile working in ISO Quality Procedures. • Move to a digital radio platform, TETRA, for resilience and leveraging of existing corporate communications.

  35. Conclusions • Maximo 6 provides the right platform for integrating a mobile solution. • Syclo provides the functionality and connectivity to effectively mobilise our inspection workforce. • Mobile working elevates basic inspection tasks to new levels. Defect capture, prioritisation and resolution all gain major improvements. • Why are we using a mobile solution – to reduce system risk and cost of inspection / defects processes - achieved!

  36. Thank you for your attention! Questions? sam.gibson@nie.co.uk or Linked In

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