CASE STUDY: ASSET MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS

S E R V I C E O F F E R I N G : D ATA C L E A N S I N G A N D O P T I M I Z AT I O N

Data Integrity Services Ensure Regulatory

Compliance and Improved Maintenance
Efficiencies for Large North Sea Oil Company

BAC KG R O UND
Industry: Upstream oil and gas
Location: North Sea
End Product: Crude oil
Production Capacity: In 2016 alone,
daily production of 50,000 bpd across
all assets.
HI G HLI G HT S
• Customer’s data within their CMMS
was incomplete, duplicated or missing,
leading to compliance issues and
inefficiencies in maintenance
execution resulting in increased costs
• John Crane asset management
solutions provided data integrity
services to cleanse the customer’s
CMMS system
• The solution resulted in regulatory
compliance, increased effectiveness
of work management and a large
reduction in annualized man hours

CU S TO ME R N E E D
• Data within the customer’s current computerized maintenance
management system (CMMS) was incomplete, duplicated or
missing. They needed to bridge this data gap to increase
operational efficiency EFFECTIVENESS REGULATORY
OF WORK COMPLIANCE
• This led to safety and environmental critical assurance and MANAGEMENT
compliance issues, putting business operations at risk
• Inaccurate data also led to increased labor and maintenance
costs, which were impacting the customer’s bottom line
• The incomplete data resulted in inefficiencies in maintenance
execution, leading to increased maintenance and operation costs

ANNUALIZED
MAN HOURS

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APPL I CAT I ON RE S ULT S

• With a global increase in demand for energy, fuels and chemicals within
a cost-cutting environment, process industry businesses need to maintain • After the data cleanse, the customer
their assets to ensure consistent reliability and efficiency to meet achieved regulatory compliance
challenging production targets • The CMMS held a correct
• Incomplete data within a CMMS puts businesses at risk of noncompliance asset population, and updated
to regulatory standards and increasing maintenance costs due to inefficient maintenance schedules and
maintenance activities and stretched resources activities were aligned within the
system, significantly reducing the
• An effective CMMS enables informed decision making by using a single risk of future health, safety and
data source for maintenance practices and business decisions. This allows environmental issues
for improved manpower levels and structured maintenance procedures to
be put in place, so that critical assets receive the maintenance they require • The work carried out enabled a
to ensure safety and environmental legal compliance step change in the effectiveness
of work management
• With this customer, data integrity
• The customer saw a reduction of

25%
services typically reduced annualized
maintenance man hours by 25 percent 14,000 annualized man hours,
equating to approximately
Reduced annualized $1.6M USD (£1.2M GBP)
maintainance
man hours in cost savings on maintenance
and operations costs
S O LUT I ON
• The customer chose John Crane to support them due to the existing trust
between the two partners. The John Crane Asset Management team
understood the customer’s practices and operations, as well as the data
• The team undertook a structured process to cleanse the data within the The customer saw a
customer’s system using John Crane’s proprietary CMMS data builder and reduction of 14,000
optimization software
annualized man
• Data cleansing identified:
hours, equating to
-- Deficiencies in existing records
approximately $1.6M
-- Key business critical data items
USD (£1.2M GBP) in
-- Safety backlog, justifying changes/reductions via quality data
reduced maintenance
-- Out of service equipment that does not need maintenance
and operations costs.

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