Integrated E-Business EAM to P6 for Multi-Plant Resource Scheduling
Oracle E-Business EAM Integration to P6
Global Production Management with P6
Client Overview
As Canada's largest potash mining organization with over 20 mines in North America, managing global production supply is critical. Planning daily production, weekly short outages and monthly maintenance days while implementing larger capital projects and major shutdowns is very challenging. Using spreadsheets and lists was not working particularly well for production planning and productivity analysis in real time.
Challenges
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Consistent coordination of Shutdowns and Capital Projects in short work windows while maintaining production and productivity forecasting
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Detailed scope planning and resource planning across underground and above ground skilled resources
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Easy updating, forecasting and realtime earned value analysis during the shutdown work and contractor productivity
Results
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Realtime updates from Oracle E-Business EAM into P6 for Projects, Work Orders, Tasks and Resources allowing for easier plan development for maintenance work, mini-outage work, turnaround work windows and capital programs across several plants
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Implemented within 6 months including dev, test, QA, and production. P6-Loader was used to move the P6 coding structures, EPS, OBS, codes, UDFs, and resources in a matter of minutes and to maintain these environments.
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Better analysis of planned resource requirements, spending planning and timeframes across the capital programs throughout the plants
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Improved delivery on outage deadlines, timeframes and what-if capability particularly related to managing production capacity across the plants
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Better understanding of mining equipment and productivity rates for improved forecasting. Reduced effort to build the schedules, allowing better management of the short 1-2 power outage windows.
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P6-Calculator ensured auto-archiving of the projects and work orders to keep the P6 database clean and manageable and to produce rollup data for resources and flagging of integration changes