Maintenance and Reliability
Historically, asset-intensive companies have kept a focus on maintenance cost reduction. The result, however, has been a reactive approach to maintenance (“break-fix”) with short-term priorities. But a number of trends are emerging in asset-intensive industries:
- Decrease asset downtime and cost through maintenance focused on improving reliability.
- Increase understanding of the whole life-cycle costs of key assets.
- Rationalize and consolidate maintenance suppliers and partners and drive improvements in the service level.
- Adoption of a proactive maintenance approach with use of remote diagnostics/smart monitoring technology.
Our maintenance and reliability solutions include:
- Maintenance diagnostics and benchmarking.
- Maintenance transformation.
- Maintenance and reliability systems and technology implementation.
- Work planning and scheduling optimization.
- Continuous improvement and performance management.
- Maintenance organization, culture and capability.
- Maintenance procurement and logistics optimization.
- Equipment strategies development.
- Accenture plant performance solution.
- Maintenance data management.
Accenture Plant Performance Solutions
To achieve business performance goals and objectives, companies must operate and maintain their plant and asset investments in a highly efficient and effective manner. Accenture Plant Performance Solutions consists of a combination of plant reliability and performance solutions, maintenance management, supply chain optimization, automation and industrial solutions.
Together they enable our clients to maximize production, improve resource optimization, strengthen maintenance planning, improve costs and facilitate safer operations processes.
Companies are migrating to an integrated asset life cycle model that focuses on preventing failures over performing break fixes. To help clients achieve world-class asset uptime, Accenture performs systems integration work focuses on historical operational data collection, modeling equipment, employing predictive models, configuring and integrating maintenance systems, and installing project planning capabilities.
Production Optimization
Accenture’s services can help companies increase product yield, improve safety and achieve manufacturing excellence. We focus on:
- Processes—Assess existing upstream and downstream business processes to identify gaps and weaknesses.
- Technology—Implement the right IT systems to improve performance and reduce costs with emphasis on building a performance indicator framework (which allows for data drill-downs and real-time analysis).
- People—Have the right organizational structure and people in place to support production optimization.
For upstream energy companies, our integrated oilfield solutions can help drive value in core operational activities (in areas such as facilities, reservoir and wells). Asset management analytics and information capabilities improve decision-making and intelligence.
Learn more about our integrated oilfield solutions [PDF, 379KB].
For refiners, Accenture’s plant operations solutions can help you run safe and sustainable operations, monitor performance, proactively maintain assets and achieve plant-to-business integration using automation and industrial IT.
For refiners in the European Union, Accenture’s biofuels blending optimization model, can help you optimize the refinery, logistics and supply envelope simultaneously to meet the European Union’s biofuels target of 10 percent of transport volume by 2020.
Read more about our proprietary biofuels blending optimization model. [PDF, 2.2MB]
Supply Chain Optimization
Accenture’s integrated optimization approach for the hydrocarbon supply chain can help you achieve the highest possible margin from feedstock purchase to logistics operations until final destination. We focus on:
- Processes—Assess existing processes and tune them to the market needs.
- Maturity models—Identify current level of process maturity and position them for optimal levels based on client specific conditions.
- Planning, scheduling and blending models—Use the latest IT tools to develop the best plans in an integrated fashion between assets as well as integrating assets with market.
- IT framework—IT road map, application vendor selection and integration framework delivers an integrated supply chain solution for a single manufacturing unit or a group of units.
- Integrated manufacturing suite solution being developed jointly with production optimization team.
Learn more about achieving excellence in work and asset management. Read the brochure. [PDF, 528KB]
Learn more about maintaining refinery assets for high performances. Read the brochure. [PDF, 341KB]
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