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    Renewable energy now regularly accounts for around 44% of energy requirements in the UK1, and is growing rapidly in many countries. 

    However, it is also becoming increasingly clear, that in order to meet our net zero targets, the amount of renewable energy used worldwide needs to triple from its current level, by 20302.

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    Moves already underway to decarbonise transport (with electric vehicles), and home heating (with heat pumps), will cause a huge expansion in the requirement for electricity while electricity generation is shifting to renewable sources.

    BPD Zenith can help you get the best outcomes from IBM Maximo, with our class-leading, tried-and-tested cloud, mobile & scheduling solutions. We can help you to get more out of your assets while reducing costs. Moves already underway to decarbonise transport (with electric vehicles), and home heating (with heat pumps), will cause a huge expansion in the requirement for electricity while electricity generation is shifting to renewable sources.

    BPD Zenith can help you get the best outcomes from IBM Maximo, with our class-leading, tried-and-tested cloud, mobile & scheduling solutions. We can help you to get more out of your assets while reducing costs.

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    Maximo has tools to help you face all of these issues, improving your effectiveness and reducing costs. BPD Zenith have a range of solutions to bring added value to Maximo, and get you up and running sooner, including:

    • industry-specific accelerators
    • MaxiCloud SaaS
    • Fingertip mobile EAM 
    • DataStudio data loading tool
    • automatic scheduling

    You need to ensure that your existing arrays work as efficiently as possible, to produce the most power with the least downtime. 

    Many new installations will have to be built and integrated over the coming years, which needs to be done as smoothly as possible.

    The renewables industry faces challenges including:

    • dealing with very geographically spread assets
    • assets in remote areas
    • planning constraints
    • storage – batteries and other methods
    • supply chain – securing critical materials
    • grid integration
    • costly offshore maintenance
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    How BPD Zenith can help with MaxiCloud


    With Maximo Application Suite at its core, MaxiCloud uses AI technologies to analyse your current and historical data, to spot any performance anomalies, and enable better targeting and scheduling of maintenance. In addition, BPD Zenith has a Maximo Accelerator specifically for the Offshore Wind industry, which addresses the challenges Offshore Wind businesses face.

    BPD Zenith has over 30 years’ experience in the energy industry, and we have implemented Maximo for clients  including London Array, Marubeni and Swancor Renewable Energy. 

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    Discover BPD’s Maximo Accelerator for Manufacturing

    Discover how our Manufacturing model helps companies maximize asset reliability and performance for a lean manufacturing implementation.

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    How does BPD Zenith help your business?

    • Maximise asset uptime & availability

    • Efficiently manage asset warranties

    • Maintain full digital asset maintenance information

    • Work effectively from any location

    • Meet delivery schedules – managing and maintaining assets and resources whilst scheduling outages to improve availability and reliability in order to make deadlines, meet SLAs and satisfy customers

    • Preserve capital – effective maintenance to extend the useful life of assets to defer new purchases and improve ROI for all assets

    • Reduce operating expenses – streamline operations, reduce labour costs, remove excess and obsolete inventory spares, and consolidate key systems

    • Increase operational equipment effectiveness – eliminate recurrent failure stops and reducing changeover times

    • Prepare for regulatory changes – dynamic infrastructure supports the ability to adapt quickly, increase governance and reporting

    • Leverage the active monitoring of asset health to maximize production efficiency whilst predicting failure with AI and monitoring technology

    • Support asset and facility maintenance and manufacturing concepts such as RCM, TPM and GMP

    • Reduce maintenance costs – improve productivity/reliability/quality, deferring non-essential maintenance activities, standardize and enforce processes

    • Maximo also provides a natural alignment with the current PAS 55 asset management or future ISO 55000 standard

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    Start getting the benefits of IBM MAS, with less disruption...

    MaxiCloud is BPD Zenith’s fully hosted Maximo solution and is the easiest and fastest way to get up and running with Maximo. MaxiCloud includes:

    • BPD's unique Essentials package including base data, enhancements and configurations for your industry
    • Performance and security best practice managed by BPD’s dedicated Global Infrastructure Team
    • High availability, 99.99% uptime, resilient options for Disaster Recovery
    • Complete service subscription packages (licensing, support and infrastructure) offer flexibility to unlock additional functionality and features as you go

    In addition, our Offshore Wind Accelerator for Maximo has had design input from industry experts such as Generating Better, to ensure our solution matches your EAM requirements.

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    Fingertip mobile EAM helps you manage wide-area assets

    Fingertip is our mobile EAM solution, designed to give your engineers access to your Maximo data wherever they are, and to meep a digital audit trail of all field activity in Maximo.

    Fingertip can work on or off-line, so is ideal for working in remote environments where connectivity may be poor, and it will update Maximo as soon as a connection is re-established.

     

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    Fingertip enables your teams to:

    • Enforce your processes at the point of work with Fingertip’s Mobile Forms, using complex conditional logic to guide your engineers through every stage
    • Capture e-sig or hard signature for every process
    • Access previous work history for any asset
    • Issue work orders remotely
    • Eliminate paper-based processes, reduce duplication of work
    • Tag a minimum required level of expertise or qualification to any service request, to ensure that maintenance work is only completed by appropriate engineers
    • Full digital audit trail is captured for all work undertaken
    • Manage linear assets in the field
    Find out more about Fingertip

    Maximizing asset uptime and availability with tools in MAS

    Maximo Application Suite (MAS) includes tools to monitor asset performance remotely with sensors. MAS can the combine this data with historical data, to automatically spot any performance anomalies. This enables you to take early preventative action, avoiding costly outages and failures. 

    MAS Apps include:

    • Maximo Health & Predict enables you to combine live data from remote sensors, with historical data, to enable automatic anomaly detection. This can give you early warnings of performance issues, reducing costly failures and outages.

    • Maximo Visual Inspection enables you to train a model to recognise what is ‘normal’, and flag any anomalies. This will automatically create alerts, and can even directly initiate maintenance calls. This can be especially useful in geographically remote areas, to reduce the frequency of manual inspections, while improving your overall inspection regime.

    • Maximo Assist - achieving continuity of expertise in your workforce. Renewable Energy workers can be highly skilled – so capturing and maintaining expertise is crucial for your business success. Maximo Assist enables your on-site engineers to collaborate with a remote expert, using audio, video, and even Augmented Reality. Your engineers have access to asset details and history, and Maximo Assist saves a summary of any collaboration sessions. This keeps specialist knowledge in your business, and makes it available to all members of your team.


    1https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6582da2d23b70a0013234cef/Energy_Trends_December_2023.pdf

    2International Energy Agency (IEA), “Tripling renewable power capacity by 2030 is vital to keep the 1.5 C goal within reach,” 2023

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