At INFOCUS Envision, Scott Hollowell of Asset Management Solutions, LLC, described the new look of EnterpriseOne Maintenance and Storeroom. Scott has 23 years of experience with JD Edwards in operations and maintenance applications. Asset Management Solutions (AMS) specializes in asset-intensive and fleet-based industries. Some of those include:
- Oil & gas
- Mining/construction
- Pulp & paper
- Manufacturing
Asset Management covers mobile, IoT, Business Systems Integrations, and more.
CAM Performance Plus
Native JD Edwards offers CAM (Capital Asset Management). CAM works for organizations with very basic and straightforward maintenance needs. However, it is not designed for asset-intensive events like turn-around, shut-down, large capital expansion projects, or inventory levels approaching 100,000 parts. These are the situations in which CAM Performance Plus was delivered.
CAM Performance Plus was written as a JD Edwards module to really address asset-intensive industries. Before CAM Performance Plus, customers in these industries were choosing best-of-breed products for maintenance, which would disconnect their maintenance from the rest of the enterprise.
CAM Performance Plus was written as an Oracle validated integration. Oracle reviewed the code entirely and certified that the native JD Edwards code can be its own module. AMS provides CAM Performance Plus to the user community.
Customer Feedback from Asset Intensive Industries BEFORE CAM Performance +
- JD Edwards CAM takes too many clicks.
- JD Edwards CAM doesn’t do what I need it to.
- At my last company I used… and I liked it better.
- JD Edwards is just an accounting system.
JD Edwards set out to address each of these concerns. The goal was to make a tool that everyone would want to utilize. The native program tries to address several types of industry needs on the same screen. With CAM Performance Plus, the screen is simplified. It was created to be the tool that mechanics, planners, equipment operators want to use, not just that they have to use.
The aim was to create a work order process in which every step is easy, clear, and secure.
- Request and Approve Work
- Plan Work
- Schedule Work
- Perform Work
- Review Work
- Accounting and Close
In CAM Performance Plus, there are purpose-based screens for each step in the process.
In terms of work request entry, this screenshot shows an option to select the work order type. You can add safety, emergency, etc. In the example, the particular motor has been input in the equipment number field, and the grid shows that there is already a work order available to be tripped as necessary to do that particular rebuild. If the problem is something different, you simply click Create Work Request to proceed with a new one.
In the planning side of the application, there have been many enhancements.
A true task-based work order allows predecessor or successor dependent tasks. If you’re working with something like Primavera, you can export those into a chart to show dependencies.
The red and green text in the slide are hyperlinks in the native grid. As for hyperlinks, the word labor allows you to plan labor. Green indicates there is already a plan in place.
Searching parts has become much easier in CAM Performance Plus. In the past, there were several challenges. The most common issue was that of 30-character fields across 2 or 3 fields. Other challenges included case sensitivity depending on your database and jumping from field to field to use wildcards to search for word filters.
The new item search text works similarly to Google. You’ll type into one text field, hit Find, and narrow your search from there.
In Work Order Planning, additional enhancements have been made to limit the number of clicks. You can report the actual labor inside the work order instead of accessing a different program. You can also do time entry within the work order in the event that there is a clerk or other employee closing the work orders.
New journal entries and mechanic rates tables minimize the challenges of using standalone time accounting.
Part Availability & Readiness to Schedule is a system monitor that checks your work orders nightly to see if the stock or purchased parts have come in. If parts are in, the work order advances to a ready-to-schedule status and triggers the picking process in the storeroom so your warehouse can stage the parts.
If the parts have not come in, PARTS Pro will continue to look every night until they do arrive.
PARTS Pro also manages commitments. One of the challenges of turn-around planning comes when work orders are placed months in advance. Based on the regular PO manager, soft commitments on a work order could order materials earlier than they are needed, creating issues of storage and security. PARTS Pro evaluates work orders based on the start date and priority of work in order to receive parts when they are required.
Work Order Scheduling has received many enhancements. The biggest enhancement gives the scheduler the ability to see the entire work week on one screen. In the example below, there is a work time capacity of 160 hours for a particular crew. Total hours planned are 16, and 3 assignments have been made. The yellow lines are planned but not assigned. The white has been assigned.
PrintCue Attachment Printing (aka Media Object Printing) emerged from customer requests. You can use it to print a work order packet that contains complete tasks and safety procedures.
PrintCue will grab your work order print, whether coded in BI Publisher or Report Design Aid, and automatically sequence through to bring in calibration checklists, lockout/tagout procedures, MSDS sheets, spec sheets from vendors, hot work permits, etc.
Once printed, the document is a single, collated packet. It puts the singular pdf into the job cue so that everything is stored the same way JD Edwards stores everything else.
Trades Workbench helps govern how the work is performed by tradespeople. From Trades Workbench, each tradesperson can input time, complete maintenance checklists, and indicate completed work. This takes place on a simplified user interface focused on getting the work done, not managing or entering work orders. Tradespeople can search for parts and print the work order from here if they need a reprint copy.
A popular new enhancement is called Purchase Request Workbench. Purchase Request Workbench was created to solve issues of communication between maintenance planners and buyers. Previously, there was not always enough space to convey everything the buyer needed to know. Purchase Request Workbench is a system of record for dialogue between the two parties that allows one approval instead of multiple.
Flexible Purchasing Approval Rates were coded so that clicking Create Purchase Request pops up and shows any approval routes you are allowed to use for that specific requisition.
Previously, building a template work order to be used on PM services was confusing and time-consuming. As shown in the slide below, the process that was once seven programs long has been reduced to the one-program Kit Wizard.
Additionally, due to SOD, several companies don’t allow the maintenance role to have item masters, branch plants, etc. This is overcome in Kit Wizard by hard-coded elements that can be defaulted in as a behind-the-scenes process.
This enhancement has been especially significant for mining customers with several PMs that need to be set up. The planner was empowered to do the entire process.
While not an integral part of CAM Performance Plus, UX One Landing Page solutions are integral to a successful deployment of maintenance solutions. There are role-based landing pages delivered in 9.2. These composite pages have the alert-analyze-act feel. They compete well with third-party maintenance systems.
As most customers already know, JD Edwards discontinued the previous JD Edwards apps on the app store, encouraging customers to build their own Oracle-integrated apps that are supported by Oracle. This leaves mobile development in the hands of the customer. The CAM Performance Plus design can build mobile apps that are intuitive, and that work in disconnected mode for both work order and storeroom processing.
CAM vs. Maximo vs. CAM Performance Plus
A recent project at a refinery complex tested JD Edwards native CAM against IBM’s Maximo.
Project Scope:
- 2-way integration to Primavera for turnaround scheduling
- 100k+ items in inventory sold
- 500k equipment record conversions
- 1k+ users at go-live
Results from Run1
Results from the original run identified around 80 functional and usability gaps in CAM, compared to Maximo. Before CAM Performance Plus, there was a manual, disjointed process.
Results from Run2
After CAM Plus, JD Edwards was brought to the center with a major shift to automation and integration. This resulted in only 4 functional and usability gaps and 10 nice-to-have gaps vs. Maximo.
Learn More
For more information on CAM Performance Plus, go to AMSEAM.com. On this webpage, you can look up CAM Performance Plus solutions by pain point, industry, product, or service. You can also utilize the Asset Management Solutions YouTube channel for more info.