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Company
Anglo Platinum is the world's leading primary producer of platinum. It also
produces other platinum group metals (PGMs) in quantities determined by their
occurrence in the ores mined. In addition to platinum, PGMs comprise palladium,
rhodium, ruthenium, iridium and osmium. Nickel, copper and other base metal
products are byproducts of PGM operations. Operations comprise 6 mines, 4 joint
ventures, 3 smelters, 17 concentrator plants, a base metals refinery and a
precious metals refinery.
Challenges
Anglo Platinum is focused on improving safety, optimizing their maintenance strategies and utilizing their maintenance resources effectively on the right jobs and maintenance activities that will improve safety, reduce downtime, increase production and reduce costs. Their traditional focus and solutions did not optimize the above issues to the extent possible with an enterprise wide RCM. In addition:
- Existing spreadsheets and databases were disconnected from SAP
- No method for sharing past studies, measuring study results and maintenance plan impacts, or keeping the maintenance strategies updated and evergreen
- No integration into SAP Plant Maintenance
- No tool or process to make Anglo's reliability efforts a living program
Why RCMO?
Anglo Platinum wanted to enhance their approach using the benefits of detailed RCM/FMEA analysis and recommendations and continual evaluation of maintenance strategy effectiveness. Anglo Platinum's reasons for choosing RCMO included:
- Integration with SAP
- Runs on Netweaver and SAP Platform
- SAP Certified Solution
- Directly uses SAP master data and transaction data
- Centralized Reporting within SAP Business Intelligence
RCMO Solution
RCMO is an SAP® xApps™ Certified solution. Through tight integration with SAP PM, RCMO provides the framework for defining maintenance strategies based upon SAE JA-1011 RCM and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) standards. RCMO also integrates recommendations from RCM analyses into Maintenance Plans in SAP and drives automated re-evaluation of maintenance strategies to ensure that the impact is constantly measured for continuous improvement.
Results
The Anglo Platinum team completed the technical installation of the RCMO
solution on their own, in a matter of days with only two weeks of configuration.
The organization only required one week of user training for the pilot site, so
the pilot site was able to use RCMO productively within a few weeks. Based on
the pilot project, Anglo anticipates:
- Increased safety performance at mining, smelting and refining operations.
- Reduction in critical equipment and production downtime
- Effective and productive use of Anglo's maintenance budget
- Increased capabilities (using the Business Warehouse tool set) to view and
analyze standard content (e.g. PM Transactional Data) in a format that is
relevant to the RCM process, eliminating the need for Anglo to develop their own
custom extractors / cubes / queries / reports to support the RCM process
- Effective identification of critical equipment
- Optimization of current maintenance strategies and maintenance plans
- Improved operational reliability
- Optimized equipment performance
- Improved design and lifecycle decisions
- Continuous asset performance improvement
"In support of our overall company goals to significantly improve safety of
employees, preserve the environment and take the lead in implementing the best
available technology and systems to achieve maximum cost effectiveness, Anglo
Platinum chose Meridium's RCMO solution for our RCM initiative. We selected
Meridium because their expertise, market share, and close partnership with SAP
best met Anglo Platinum's current and future needs."
- Jan Smit, Senior
Principal Engineer, Asset Management, Anglo Platinum
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