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CASE STUDY
LYCOPODIUM AND
NRX PROJECT CLOUD
ABOUT LYCOPODIUM
Lycopodium is an Australian headquartered engineering
and project management consultancy which provides a
complete range of services for the evaluation, development,
implementation and optimisation of projects across a broad
range of industries.
Lycopodium Asset Management was established in Perth in
1999 to provide asset management services. Lycopodium
Asset Management has grown in both size and breadth
to become a major supplier of reliability and engineering
maintenance services to clients in the petrochemicals, oil &
gas, mining, minerals, marine and manufacturing sectors.
Lycopodium Asset Management provides five major service
offerings:
Asset Information Management
Maintenance & Integrity Management
Spare Parts Management
Risk Management
Performance Assessment & Improvement
The Lycopodium Asset Management team has significant
experience in re-engineering systems for Brownfield
operations and developing new maintenance management
systems for Greenfield projects.
CASE STUDY:
BILL OF MATERIAL
DEVELOPMENT
Client: Global Mining Company
Project: Australian Export Capacity Expansion
The client operates an integrated system of mines and
more than 1,000km of rail infrastructure linking the mines
to export port facilities. The project was initiated by the
client in order to increase export capacity by in excess of
40%.
A key component of capacity expansion is the addition of
new berths and ship loaders at the current port.
Lycopodium Asset Management was contracted by the
client to develop the Bills of Materials (BOMs) required for
the new ship loaders installed during the export capacity
expansion project.
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PROJECT BACKGROUND
Lycopodium Asset Management were required to develop
BOMs with high quality information attached to the
assemblies and sub-assemblies to assist in the searching
and identification of items.
Lycopodium Asset Management had an existing in-house
developed tool for BOM building based on Microsoft Access,
however this tool would have required significant additional
enhancements prior to being used on this project. A
decision needed to be made as to whether the existing tool
would be enhanced, a completely new tool developed, or
whether to use a commercially available software platform.
An additional consideration was that this project required
the use of personnel from Lycopodium Asset Managements
high value engineering centre in Manila to execute the
project, with resources in Lycopodium Asset Managements
Perth offices overseeing the project, providing quality
assurance and liaising with the client.
WHY NRX?
Lycopodium Asset Management chose NRX Project
Cloud as their platform for this project. As a commercial
software platform it removed the need for custom software
development and being deployed on the cloud it allowed
resources in Perth and Manila to gain easy access to
the same database. Lycopodiums Asset Managements
instance of NRX Project Cloud was deployed in Singapore
to give both offices high speed access.
NRX Project Cloud allowed Lycopodium Asset Management
to focus on the BOM building project and leave system
administration functions to the NRX team. With the
solution on the cloud, NRX was able to quickly react to any
issues in the system as they arose.
PROJECT EXECUTION
Lycopodium Asset Management received the following
information from the clients EPCM Contractors, along with
continuous updates to that data:
Asset register which was loaded into the NRX Project
Cloud plant
SAP Materials which are loaded into the NRX Project
Cloud enterprise and attached to the relevant plants.
Maintainable Unit Profiles: The hierarchy of assemblies
and sub-assemblies for each maintainable unit
Drawings were reviewed to determine which materials needed
to be added to each assembly and sub-assembly and those
materials were added to the appropriate material BOM.
As the BOMs were completed they were exported from NRX
Project Cloud in the clients SAP load spreadsheet template
for submission to the clients master data team for upload
into SAP.
CURRENT PROJECTS
With the success of the BOM building project for the
capacity expansion projects ship loaders behind them,
Lycopodium Asset Management have moved onto additional
expansion projects:
Primary Crushing Systems BOM Project
Primary crushing circuits
Main Ore Processing Facility BOM Project
Screening
Crushers
Stackers
Train Loaders
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FURTHER INFORMATION
Mark Wellard
Managing Director, Lycopodium Asset Management
(+61 8 94296250)
Stephen Crampton
Vice President Asia Pacific, NRX
(+61 410 315 643)
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maintenance master data foundation essential to achieve maintenance excellence in both new capital
projects and legacy operations.
Companies whose maintenance systems are built upon trusted maintenance master data from NRX
benefit from a more productive and knowledgeable maintenance organization, lower costs and reduced
safety and compliance risks in their operations.
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