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Empowering ERP Asset Management Solutions

VIZIYA WorkAlign®: One Maintenance Solution How to take your Maintenance Processes beyond IIoT By – WorkAlign® IIoT Team, VIZIYA Corp.

In our current technology driven lifestyles, pen, paper, and even some technologies aren’t cutting it as a primary tool for maintenance management. More and more, organizations are finding themselves in need of a sophisticated, integrated solution to meet their maintenance requirements and reduce their overall maintenance costs. The work management process generally consists of six stages: identify, plan, schedule, execute, complete, and analyze. Historically, maintenance organizations have been forced to utilize manual process or software from multiple vendors to work their way through these stages. Each team stayed in the stage of their primary focus. This resulted in siloed data, disconnects between teams, unplanned downtime and emergency work orders and higher maintenance costs.

How does this affect IIoT?

IIoT has quickly become a necessity for maintenance organizations. In order for maintenance teams to be successful, they need an IIoT solution to optimize their ability to track their asset health in real-time and respond to sensor data accordingly.

Take the following scenario for example; there is a bearing on one of your assets that is at constant risk for overheating. If it overheats, your asset will fail, your production line will go down and you will lose three days of production time. To prevent this, you are sending an inspector to check the bearing temperature every 12 hours and repair it when needed. Despite this, the bearing still overheats occasionally, and your company loses valuable production time and money.

How do organizations connect IIoT with the rest of their maintenance processes? To combat this issue, connect the various maintenance teams and optimize the maintenance processes, VIZIYA has designed the WorkAlign® Suite; one solution for maintenance that connects your maintenance team from identification to analysis. The WorkAlign® Suite consists of six products including Scheduler, IIoT, Mobile, Warranty Tracker, Maintenance Budgeting, and Analytics.

Figure 1- VIZIYA and the Work Management Process

VIZIYA’s WorkAlign® IIoT is a powerful, robust solution that allows companies to maximize on collected sensor data by connecting your data historian to your CMMS. VIZIYA’s IIoT solution applies user defined “what then” steps that makes the data actionable, whatever the business scenario, and then closes the loop by sharing this data with the organization’s historian or data warehouse The IIoT application provides real-time insight into the health of your asset.

Furthermore, WorkAlign® IIoT was designed with the entire maintenance process in mind. It connects seamlessly to the other WorkAlign® products (shown in figure 1) to create an end-to-end maintenance solution.

WorkAlign® IIoT enhances the capabilities of the following WorkAlign® Products: WorkAlign® Scheduler WorkAlign® Scheduler fills the planning and scheduling stage of the work management process. It is a powerful solution that delivers a unprecedented level of scheduling flexibility and intelligence that focuses on asset criticality, urgency, and PM compliance. WorkAlign® IIoT immediately alerts Schedulers when a new work order has been generated because of an unexpected failure. This allows Schedulers to proactively adjust the week’s schedule to ensure that maintenance teams continue to focus on the right work for the right assets. It provides predictive insight to Schedulers to ensure proactive and effective planning, scheduling and execution of work.

WorkAlign® Mobile WorkAlign® Mobile bridges the scheduling, execution and completion stages, as well as fills the execution stage of the work management process. It improves the quality and timeliness of maintenance information by removing the lag time normally associated with data sharing and entry and by increasing maintenance team access to critical asset information while out in the field.

WorkAlign® Mobile sends push notifications instantly to technicians when asset events are triggered. Technicians can update the maintenance status directly from their mobile devices when they start to perform work on an asset.

WorkAlign® Analytics WorkAlign® Analytics fills the analysis stage of the work management process. It provides actionable data out-of-the-box to drive improvements in maintenance and decision-making capabilities. It extends the reporting capability of the organization’s ERP by consolidating maintenance data and history into a single live reporting solution.

WorkAlign® Analytics shares and combines operational/production data with maintenance data in order to accurately calculate performance metrics such as production utilization, equipment and system reliability without the need for manual data capturing. WorkAlign® Maintenance Budgeting WorkAlign® Maintenance Budgeting fills the completion and analysis stages of the work management process. It is a purpose-built solution that simplifies asset-based budgeting with real-time views of predicted work orders and historical trends.

WorkAlign® Maintenance Budgeting enhances the maintenance budgeting process by ensuring that quality WO data (including costs) are captured against the correct assets and by providing the ability to forecast maintenance work based on first or zero-based budgeting principles. WorkAlign® Warranty Tracker WorkAlign® Warranty Tracker fills the completion and analysis stages of the work management process. It delivers actionable intelligence to track and claim warrantable repairs.

WorkAlign® Warranty Tracker send notifications to Planners and Schedulers when assets may be starting to fail that are still in within the Warranty Coverage Period. Allows technicians to be aware of special conditions regarding the maintenance/replacement of the item to ensure that warranties are not voided.

Conclusion The VIZIYA WorkAlign® Product Suite, and the work management process it enables, can be thought of as a well-functioning gear system that delivers optimal performance and benefits if all gears (solutions or products) are connected and working in unison. With the WorkAlign® Suite, organizations can work with one solution from one vendor that meets all their key maintenance needs. It provides a solution that focuses on and improves asset management. It takes an organization from disconnected processes to optimizing their entire work management process.

About VIZIYA Headquartered in Hamilton, ON, Canada with offices in Madrid, Perth, Atlanta, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Dubai, VIZIYA is the industry leader providing bolt-on software products to

enhance ERP- based asset maintenance systems. VIZIYA’s proprietary WorkAlign® Product Suite delivers seamless integration into existing ERP systems. With over 55,000 users at 850 sites across 6 continents, the world’s best companies use VIZIYA products to help them better maintain their assets. Visit viziya.com for more information.