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The Anacle Enterprise Asset Manager™ (Anacle.EAM™) is our flagship EAM offering. It provides best-of-breed functionalities to maximize your organization’s asset performance, service quality as well as supply chain efficiency. At the same time, Anacle.EAM™ reinforces transparency and accountability within your operations. Please visit the Anacle.EAM™ site for more information.
In capital-intensive industries (utilities, process/discrete manufacturing, real estate), physical assets such as facilities, infrastructure and equipment can form more than 60% of the total asset base of the organization. These industries face the harsh realities of operating in highly competitive and commoditized markets, and at the same time are saddled with high value assets and equipment where each failure is disruptive and costly. Furthermore, operations and maintenance activities must also adhere to stringent occupational safety and environmental health regulations.
It is thus important for organizations to maximize the return on investment from their asset base. Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) are paradigms employed to achieve that goal.
Given a physical asset, the objective of LCAM is to extract maximum productivity from the asset and minimize the total costs involved in its acquisition, operations as well as maintenance. Quantitatively, the objective of asset management is to strike an optimal balance between maximizing Overall Asset Productivity (OAP) and minimizing. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Furthermore, LCAM provides guidance on whether it is more cost-effective to continue to maintain, overhaul or replace a failing asset.
Competitive pressures force organizations to minimize asset total cost of ownership and streamline their related maintenance and supply chain operations. These operations typically involve myriad activities ranging from the management of maintenance activities, service vendors and contracts, spare parts and consumables, as well as the operational budget. In recent years, stringent industry-specific Occupational Health & Environmental Safety (OH&ES) regulations are also being enforced by oversight agencies, with industry owners/operators responsible for compliance.
As equipment failures become increasingly expensive (in terms of lost production capacity, equipment damage & repair, workplace injuries and safety violations, unfavourable publicity), it is essential to maintain optimal performance of plant, equipment, facilities and other assets, while ensuring that safety is not compromised. Companies are starting to realize the organization wide impact of quality asset maintenance, service and supply chain management, as well as the corresponding improvements in asset performance, productivity and lifecycle costs.
By providing a platform for connecting people, processes, assets, industry-based knowledge and decision support capabilities based on quality information, EAM addresses business challenges that include productivity enhancement, maximizing asset life cycle, minimizing total cost of ownership and support of the technology and supply chain infrastructure.
