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Avantis helps Vectren attain New Heights in Maintenance, Planning and Cost Tracking

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
  • America
Country
  • United States
Product
  • Avantis Asset Management Software
  • Avantis InRIM
Tech Stack
  • Oracle
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Cost Savings
  • Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
  • Functional Applications - Enterprise Asset Management Systems (EAM)
Applicable Industries
  • Utilities
Applicable Functions
  • Maintenance
Use Cases
  • Asset Lifecycle Management
  • Predictive Maintenance
Services
  • System Integration
About The Customer
Vectren Corporation is a $2 billion utility company based in Evansville, Indiana. The company provides electricity or natural gas to nearly two-thirds of Indiana and 16 counties in Ohio. Vectren operates two power plants, which together use five coal-fired units and six gas turbines to produce about 1,400 megawatts of generating capacity. The company is also in the wholesale market for power sales where availability has tremendous financial implications. Vectren plays an integral part in the day-to-day lives of more than one million energy users.
The Challenge
Vectren Corporation, a $2 billion utility company based in Evansville, Indiana, provides electricity or natural gas to nearly two-thirds of Indiana and 16 counties in Ohio. The company operates two power plants, which together use five coal-fired units and six gas turbines to produce about 1,400 megawatts of generating capacity. Keeping these plants running continuously and efficiently is vital to Vectren’s mission to serve customers. Vectren is also in the wholesale market for power sales where availability has tremendous financial implications. The company's challenge was to reduce its overall operations, maintenance, and capital spending, while keeping the availability high. As a key part of its strategy for meeting this challenge, Vectren management set out to eliminate inefficiencies in scheduling maintenance, ordering parts and keeping track of completed work.
The Solution
Vectren implemented Schneider Electric’s Avantis® enterprise asset management software to help eliminate inefficiencies in scheduling maintenance, ordering parts and keeping track of completed work. Avantis gave Vectren an enterprise database that enabled management to capture and analyze data about the current and historical maintenance work. It also helped track the cost of maintaining any given piece of equipment, keeping track of work orders and labor time, and ascertaining key performance indicators and benchmarks throughout the maintenance operation. The Avantis solution also helped the Vectren plants achieve a breakthrough in tracking data at the work-order level. Previously, separating expenditure data from information about what planned and unplanned work was being done was the source of considerable frustration.
Operational Impact
  • The Avantis solution enabled Vectren to efficiently track 6,000 unique assets and more than 33,000 individual spare parts, keeping track of work orders and labor time.
  • The solution helped Vectren to ascertain key performance indicators and benchmarks throughout the maintenance operation.
  • The Avantis solution also helped the Vectren plants achieve a breakthrough in tracking data at the work-order level.
Quantitative Benefit
  • Since the implementation of the Avantis solution, Vectren has completed 12,000 work tasks, of which 7,300 were corrective repairs and 3,500 were preventive maintenance work tasks.
  • In addition, employees completed 250 “safety” work orders.

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