Power Generation Firm Achieves Business Savings with Automated Work Packet Printing

The Company

Intergen is a power generation firm formed in the mid-1990s. Since its launch, Intergen has grown to provide over 2,800MW of capacity across four (4) advanced technology projects in the UK. Committed to providing uninterrupted energy solutions, Intergen developed over 150 stringent guidelines for operations and maintenance to ensure optimal asset reliability.

The Problem

Intergen uses JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Capital Asset Management (JDE E1 CAM) for maintenance planning and scheduling. Using this module, maintenance managers would print work orders to distribute to their maintenance staff for instructing and documenting repairs and preventative work. While native JD Edwards functionality only supports printing the first text attachment, Intergen’s strict maintenance guidelines frequently resulted in the need for multiple attachments to be included with each work order packet.

Consequently, maintenance managers would have to open up each attachment in its native program, print them separately, and then manually collate the attachments with the other work order. This inefficient and manual process caused many problems as work orders and attachments were printed out of sequence, resulting in errors. In just one facility, six (6) maintenance and engineering staff members would set aside other important activities to complete this time-consuming process.

The Solution

Ross Kohn, Engineering Coordinator at Intergen’s Millmerran plant in Australia, first came across AventX for JD Edwards CAM after Intergen launched an all-hands search for a solution that would help reduce the costs and errors associated with manually printing and collating work order packets. After reaching out to STR Software, Ross scheduled a discovery call to see a demonstration of AventX for JD Edwards CAM.

Ross quickly determined that AventX met Intergen’s requirement to print a work order with its associated attachments automatically and then brought in Veer Ranganathan, Intergen’s Business System Manager at the corporate office, to assist in evaluating the solution. Veer appreciated that the integration between AventX and JDE E1 CAM was “completely seamless.” According to Veer, “AventX is uncomplicated and at the same time serves the purpose of what we were trying to accomplish.”

Intergen purchased and implemented AventX for JD Edwards CAM to automate the work order packet printing process. Ross is now happy to report that the maintenance technicians have more free time to focus on more productive maintenance tasks that continuously improve asset reliability. In fact, Intergen is saving up to $415,000 a year through AventX across the company.

According to Ross, another great benefit of AventX is the peace of mind that all components of a work order packet are accurate and delivered to the printer as one print job. “One of the problems we had before AventX was that it was possible a technician could grab the wrong procedure or print an older version,” said Ross. “Now that it’s automatically linked, you know you’re getting the most up-to-date procedure. I’m very impressed with AventX.”