Enterprise Engineer for Assets

Enterprise Engineer for Assets enables Owner-Operator organizations to assure the integrity of their asset documentation, helping them increase operational efficiency, decrease lost production time and reduce the risk of non-compliance.

Owner-Operators must maintain and share
relevant documents throughout the life of an asset

Owner-Operators are under pressure to extract greater value from assets while reducing operational and capital expenditures.  During their life, assets are commissioned, renovated, reconfigured, extended or decommissioned to meet changing business demands or external regulatory requirements.

Owner-Operators face the challenge of retaining and sharing relevant documentation for the life of the asset.  Up-to-date health and safety documents, maintenance manuals, SOPs, and as-built design drawings are all necessary for the effective ongoing operation of a facility.  The sheer volume of documentation that accumulates during the asset lifecycle can create problems.  A facility may require that archives are kept for an extended period of time, sometimes dating back more than 100 years.  As a result, an asset may have millions of associated documents. In addition, it is necessary to maintain the complex multiple relationships between documents and their associated assets.  This creates a very challenging management situation that cannot succeed using manual techniques. 

When there is continuous change, maintaining as-built documentation is a major challenge.  Concurrent engineering projects may bring simultaneous modifications to the same engineering documents by different capital projects and maintenance teams.  The changes, when brought together, don’t always provide a consistent view of the facility.

Bridging the gap between the engineering and maintenance operations is also a challenge.  It is imperative to keep these two teams aligned so that you avoid unplanned downtime and maintenance delays due to missing or inaccurate documentation.

A centralized, controlled repository of asset related documentation

Enterprise Engineer (EE) for Assets provides a controlled library of officially sanctioned documents and drawings and the associated processes that are required to ensure your business has access to compliant and relevant information at all times.  We refer to this library as the asset information vault.  Enterprise Engineer for Assets allows you to create multiple vaults; for example, a vault for each type of documentation or a vault for each major facility.

EE for Assets ensures that as-built drawings and plant documents are prepared and distributed in a controlled and centralized manner.  This simplifies the process of moving an asset
through its lifecycle, from design to construction to operations and eventual decommissioning.  It also allows Owner-Operators to standardize access to essential plant information helping mitigate risk and diminish compliance issues associated with critical asset documentation.

EE for Assets works in real time with both newly created documents and documents in revision stages.  This dramatically improves the review, approval and handover (turnover) processes, and is especially important when there are multiple concurrent projects all working on the same content.  It allows users to track the relationships between the various documents for each project with the master versions of those documents
(ie those contained within the vault).

Enterprise Engineer for Assets Vault Architecture

The EE for Assets vault architecture is based on your company’s Asset Breakdown Structure (ABS) and is segregated into a Masters Area and a Released Area.  The Masters Area contains the source documents and drawings in their native format.  The Released Area contains copies of the approved documents that have been published to a read-only format and made available for wider company access.   All documentation placed in these areas seamlessly conforms to company and project standards, and it can be easily and securely transferred for future reference.

EE for Assets provides a defined Handover Area and supporting processes to control the movement of documents into the vault.  The Handover Area supports the process of relating project content with asset information making sure all changes conform with company standards, prior to transferring to the vault.  As documents are released into the vault, they will automatically be published to the predefined released format, watermarked and secured based on applied business rules.

Enterprise Engineer for Assets Overview

EE for Assets provides a fully audited quality assurance process that ensures your business accesses the right document at the right time.  It supports the full lifecycle management of asset documentation from new asset, to ongoing operations and maintenance, to decommissioning.  It provides a complete audit trail of all areas of the asset management process, including design, construction and operations.
 
EE for Assets offers built-in control for using engineering content across multiple concurrent projects, which provides an accurate and consistent view of the facility.  Owner-Operators can bridge the gap between engineering and maintenance, reduce risk of non compliance, improve heath and safety, and minimize unplanned downtime or rework due to inaccurate content. 

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