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  • Asset Register Module

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    • Every organisation needs to know what assets it owns, where those assets are, what the operating and maintenance costs are, how well are they performing and when should they be refurbished, replaced or disposed of.
    • We are able to capture and componentize the assets in the Financial (ito GRAP17 or IAS16), Technical and Spatial Asset Registers. We have set up an asset hierarchy for public assets that follows Treasuries’ guidelines as per CIDMS Module 3. It allows for secondary business to be managed separately and any maintenance costs for external clients can be ring-fenced.
    • The assets can then be viewed in a GIS or on Google Earth.
    • We are able to import and clean data from other systems.
    • Assets can be tagged with barcodes or tracking tags. We can track vehicles and other moveable assets.





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  • Financial Module

    • IMMS Solution can manage the financial aspects of the assets as required by IFRS. IMMS calculates the depreciation, manages impairments, revaluations, depreciation methods, remaining useful life (RUL), disposals and replacements.
    • The IMMS Solution provides financial parameters and performance indicators/reports on a monthly basis.
    • An asset replacement plan can be generated which identifies which assets need to be replaced, refurbished or disposed of and what the financial costs would be.
    • The system can also determine what the return on investment is for an asset or for a group of assets.
    • We can link your chart of accounts to MSCOA to allow you to generate reports according to the Treasury accounts.

  • Maintenance Module

    Our maintenance management is based on the cycled Plan, Do, Check, Act principle of PAS55/ISO55000.
    We assist you to execute maintenance on time and on location.

    We try to be as proactive as possible by scheduling maintenance tasks and predicting failure points before they occur. This improves the availability of your assets and maximizes your productivity or service delivery.

    Besides scheduled events, we cater for random failures, and investigations in response to alarms and triggers from field instruments/sensors and control systems (SCADA).

    Our maintenance scheduler checks human resource availability, and then schedules the tools, test equipment, spares and consumables for a maintenance or inspection tasks.

    We analyse the scheduled work group results and costs, and keep statistics on times to repair, which we track against benchmarks.

    We cater for stringent lock out procedures/sequences and competency criteria in compliance with safety, health environmental and quality (SHEQ) requirements. Service level agreements, warranty, legal, and insurance claims can all be managed from our system.

    IMMS schedules for any maintenance strategy, such as:

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    Before roller replacement

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    After roller replacement

    Preventative Maintenance

    Maintenance activities are scheduled on the assets as prescribed by the OEM, which ensures compliance to the OEM/Supplier requirements/specifications.

    Un-Scheduled Maintenance

    The system allows for ad hoc activities that can be captured on a hand-held device even if there isn’t an internet connection.
    The system learns as it goes and non-conformances are available for selection on all tablets for future occurrences, i.e. a troubleshooting list.

    Predictive Maintenance

    We run advanced predictive maintenance models for certain clients in the manufacturing industry and these systems, or other reliability centred maintenance models can be extended to other types of business.

  • Business Analysis Module

    Management and Engineering Dashboards, KPIs, and customised Reporting

    The IMMS solution can be used to generate real-time, on-line reports and KPI dashboards. These reports and KPI dashboards shall be configured and customized to the requirements of the Client.

    The reporting function is available on-line. Generating a report will provide up-to-date information as contained on the IMMS Server. Reports can typically include the following information for example, but can be customized to provide any information in the IMMS solution:

    1. Total maintenance cost to date and costs for this financial year.
    2. Total spares and consumable costs to date and costs for this financial year.
    3. Total tools and consumables costs to date and costs for this financial year.
    4. Total Human Resources costs to date, man-hours to date and for this financial year.
    5. Human Resources Safety reports for maintenance activities.
    6. Assets procured during this financial year including acquisition costs.
    7. Total depreciation of the assets.
    8. Year to date depreciation of the assets.
    9. Number of issues detected during the asset walk-through process.
    10. Number of issues detected using the system integrated solutions.
    11. Stores, inventory and usage reports.
    12. Spare Parts procurement efficiency reports.
    13. Number of outstanding maintenance actions.
    14. Number of completed maintenance actions.
    15. Assets that needs to be replaced.
    16. Assets that needs to be disposed of.
    17. The complete asset register report, or a subset of it.
    18. The Asset Verification and Assessment Status report.
  • Stores and Items Module

    Store, Spares, Tools & Support equipment Management

    The IMMS Solution contains a stores management function to manage main, secondary, on-site and mobile stores for the assets to be managed. These stores are stocked with the required spare parts and consumables required for the maintenance process.

    The IMMS Solution can interface to the procurement and approvals process for the procurement of tools, support equipment, spare parts and consumables.

    Store, Spares, Tools & Support equipment Management

    The maintenance activities require tools to perform maintenance. The IMMS solution ensures the availability of the tools at location to perform the maintenance activities.

    Support equipment is all the equipment used during the maintenance process of a specific asset. The serviceability and maintenance on the support equipment is also managed in the IMMS solution.

    Store, Spares, Tools & Support equipment Management

    All spare parts and consumables will be managed and issued by the stores solution in IMMS.

    A stores spare parts and consumable prediction model shall be used to determine the minimum stock levels, preventing excessive quantities of stock items. This prediction model uses the consumption rate of spares and consumables as well as the minimum order quantities and delivery times as well as the time to process orders.

  • Fleet Management & Asset Tracking Module

    GPS/GSM Tracking and Monitoring Platform

    The IMMS Fleet Management monitoring platform offers the user the following functionalities:

    • Realtime and History Tracking
    • Web User Interface (Google Maps UI) and Mobile App (IOS & Android)
    • Proprietary APN SIM Management
    • Stolen Vehicle Recovery
    • Self-managed services on all subscriptions
    • Comprehensive Reports and Scheduling
    • SARS Tax Logbook Trip Editor
    • My Places points of interest (POI’s)
    • Automated Alert functions on subscriptions such as Battery Tamper, Geofencing, Green Driving, Speeding, Movement, Crash and Towing
    • Remote Firmware Over The Air (FOTA) and Immobilisation capability

    Additional Operations

    IMMS Fleet Information Management System: GPS Tracking (provision is made for various tracking service providers)

    • Fuel & Oil
    • Maintenance & Tyres
    • Authorisations
    • Approvals (Invoice Scrutiny)
    • Tolls
    • Financing, Depreciation & Insurance
    • Additional Costs
    • Inspections
    • Vehicle licence renewals
    • Driving licence renewals
    • Fines management (AARTO compliant)
    • Accident management
    • Disposals

  • Asset System Integration Module

    CBM

    Condition-based maintenance (CBM), is maintenance when the need arises. By monitoring the asset’s condition and performance IMMS can assess the state of the asset and based on the analysis of the condition and performance (after one or more indicators show that equipment is going to fail or that equipment performance is deteriorating), the maintenance is scheduled and performed.

    IMMS will start with a predetermined maintenance schedule, while observing the state of the system, this is known as condition monitoring. Based on the actual condition, IMMS will schedule maintenance on the asset as required. This methodology promotes maintenance work to a new level of efficiency.

    With advance warning of machine failures, unexpected breakdowns can be substituted with planned repairs, allowing more time to be spent identifying areas for further improvement.

    This concept is applicable to mission critical systems that incorporate active redundancy and fault reporting. It is also applicable to non-mission critical systems that lack redundancy and fault reporting. CBM is based on using real-time data to prioritize and optimize maintenance resources.

    Iot

    The internet of things (IoT) is a computing concept that describes the idea of everyday physical objects being connected to the internet and being able to identify themselves to other devices.

    The IoT is significant because an object that can represent itself digitally becomes something greater than the object by itself. No longer does the object relate just to its user, but it is now connected to surrounding objects and database data. IMMS collect the information from the IoT devices and use the data to update the specific Asset’s condition.

    OPC

    OPC technologies were created to allow information to be easily and securely exchanged between diverse platforms from multiple vendors and to allow seamless integration of those platforms without costly, time-consuming software development. IMMS make use of OPC to collect information from the Asset and update our Asset database and planning of effective maintenance

  • Data Analysis Module

    Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Module

    RCA investigation requests are triggered by the system, a user, a call centre or by the SCADA system on strategic assets that have failed, are underperforming (reliability, output, quality and efficiency), or on significant events that may cause, or have caused injury to people or damage to property.

    The RCA module will look for groups of related RCA requests. The Pareto principle (80/20) often applies to these types of events.

    A roll up approach has been adopted, where the symptoms and impact on business are analysed and a range of potential root causes are identified.

    The user is given hints to investigate the most likely root causes and he/she will decide what the root cause was. Investigation are prioritised in the maintenance management system based on the lowest cost.

    The results are stored and stats of the most likely solution are kept to guide users for future root cause analyses.

    If the root cause is different to the causes identified by the system, then the user adds a new root cause and the system learns as it goes.

    Knowledge from other users will be added to a central repository making it an extensive body of knowledge.

    The RCA Module draws information out of the following systems:

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    Reliability Centred Maintenance

  • RCM Objectives

    Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Module

    Every business has a primary business objective, which for a public utility is to provide a service that improves people’s standard of living or increases economic activity. For a private company it would normally be improve profitability, or service.

    Reliable assets are key to achieving business objectives and reliability centred maintenance seeks to improve the overall effectiveness and efficiency of equipment whilst minimizing the lifecycle cost of the asset or facility.

    There are four principles that are critical for a reliability centred maintenance strategy:

    1. The primary objective is to ensure that the system delivers on its mandate (preserve system function)

    2. Identify failure modes and the degree to which it can affect the system function

    3. Prioritize the failure modes according to risk and business impact

    4. Select applicable and effective tasks to control the failure modes

    Understanding asset failures and the implication thereof in terms of severity, cost and business impact can enable maintenance managers to make informed decisions on appropriate action and future maintenance strategies and thereby minimize the consequences of failure.

    Therefore, RCM provides the capability for an organization to prioritize maintenance tasks and reduce business impact.

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    RCA

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  • Root Cause and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

    When an asset fails, it is important to understand what the root cause of the failure was and how that cause can be remedied and avoided in the future.

    Prediction models

  • ERP Integration

    Facilities and infrastructures might contain Controllers, Computers, SCADA systems, PLCs, monitoring equipment or in general computing elements that perform control and monitoring functions. These computing elements usually also detect problems in the systems it is controlling and monitoring. The IMMS solution can interface with these computing elements to extract any problem information recorded. The IMMS Solution will trigger remedial maintenance activities either automatically or manually. The computing elements will reset the problem if the remedial maintenance activities were successfully performed, and the IMMS solution will close this maintenance activity as successfully completed.

    The IMMS Solution also integrates with Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) systems. A Condition Based Monitoring system is an additional system installed either by the manufacturer or as an after-market fitment to determine the condition of the parts of the assets it is measuring. The CBM usually consist of sensors mounted on the critical parts of the asset to continuously monitor the operational state and condition of the part of the asset, as well as a recording and data processing unit that convert the sensor data into information to detect problems prior to occurrence. An example of a CBM system is a vibration and temperature analysis solution mounted on the bearings of rotating equipment to early detect bearing problems.

    The IMMS Solution also integrates with other external systems, where the information is needed to ensure that the maintenance can be performed. An example of an external system is where the IMMS Solution integrates with the meteorology station to obtain weather and sea conditions when the maintenance is to be performed at sea.

    The IMMS Solution can integrate to the Internet-of-Things solutions, including the IoT gateways and sensors. The requirements for IoT solutions shall be determine by the Engineering team with the objective to improve the maintenance process and to cut overall costs.

    Solution can be fully integrated with enterprise (ERP) environments, can be stand alone, or be delivered as services.

    Cloud computing, use of smartphones, handhelds, tablets and real time monitoring are all available.