Fast Track Process for EAM Implementation
Life Cycle Engineering’s Asset Management team uses a four step Fast Track process that puts you in the driver’s seat – and in full control – on your journey to a successful EAM implementation. You can be confident that LCE’s change management expertise gives you the edge in the change process – helping you to anticipate and overcome any obstacles to change.
Design:
We work with you to design the system that fully meets your requirements.
Functional Requirements: LCE’s engineers and technicians interview users and document current and future needs. LCE’s functional requirements checklist contains 19 elements and 270 requirements to make sure that your functional requirements will support enterprise asset management best practices for reliability, work management and material management.
Sample of Functional Requirements Checklist
Business Process Review: Our team reviews your existing business processes and work flows and compares them to LCE’s library of 78 best practice business processes to pinpoint gaps. Sample of Business Process
Gap Analysis and Plan of Action: Our team identifies and analyzes the gaps between your existing processes and best practice processes, then uses this information to perform a risk analysis that highlights the potential impact to corporate objectives. We create an action plan to help you minimize risks and optimize the ROI on your assets, your systems and your processes. Sample EAM Project Plan
Selection:
We will advise you how to select the system that best meets your requirements.
Demonstrations: We will help you select the top two or three proposals and advise you as you ask vendors to demonstrate how their solution adheres to the engineered specifications and functional requirements.
Grading: We’ll create a table that will help you evaluate and compare the solutions based on requirements fit, cost, performance and reputation.
Implementation:
Implementing a new asset management system requires coordinating a lot of moving parts – integrating workflows, business processes, resource requirements and module mapping. We use both a Gantt chart and project management plan to ensure all milestones are adequately captured and all resources are clearly accounted for.
Database Development: A complete database is probably one of the most overlooked components of a successful risk-based asset management system. To make sure your system can meet corporate objectives, we help you set up your system to capture data for each asset based on its type and required attributes.
Collection: We help you collect the data necessary to populate your new system. If complete data does not exist, it can be collected manually with the aid of electronic media and digital imagery.
Cataloging: We help you create a functional hierarchy that drives the appropriate level of work orders, bills of material and failure analysis. The functional hierarchy also allows roll ups to cost centers, providing total cost of ownership data and making budgetary analysis possible. Sample Functional Hierarchy
Criticality Analysis: Using the collected and catalogued data we create an analysis of your equipment and the significance of failure to work flows, business processes and value streams. This analysis includes consideration of environmental impact, safety, production or reputation issues. Sample Criticality Analysis
System Test & Validation: Once the data and functional hierarchies have been entered into the system, we test-drive the system with you to make sure it meets the functional requirements.
Configuration:
We help you configure your asset management system, helping to make sure that learning and using the system is as user-friendly as possible.
Reports and Queries: We evaluate whether your new system’s standard reports support your KPIs, then develop any customized queries or reports you need to manage your assets.
Standard Operation Procedure: We develop a customized procedure that clearly outlines the integration of work flows and business processes to the applicable modules. This is not the vendor-supplied User’s Manual!
Training: We train you on how to use your system from a reliability perspective. Both formal introductory training and interactive training are necessary to reinforce the methodology and application
Change Management:
Implementing a new EAM system introduces a significant amount of change – and therefore risk – to your organization. LCE’s change management experts can help you manage the people dimension of your implementation so that your new systems and processes deliver the results you expect.
Read about Life Cycle Engineering’s Five Stage Model for Change
For More Information
843.744.7110 | info@LCE.com
