2.2 Organizational Structure

With all the talk about big data and the IIoT, many are asking how can we use this in maintenance? The IIoT enables us to put sensors in any location where we might want to collect and analyze equipment condition and performance data. There are companies that offer predictive maintenance services, and some companies do this for themselves, in-house. Typically, it’s the larger companies that can afford this, but democratization has meant this has become available to a much broader market. But there are hurdles to taking advantage of this sort of continuous monitoring program, even for your most critical equipment. One, it’s expensive, whether you do it in-house or outsource. And two, there are data bottlenecks. Condition monitoring data comes is huge volumes and it’s all time-sensitive. Even if you can afford it, you need a data handling network with a lot of capacity. In this workshop, we’ll present a viable technical solution to the data bottleneck problem — based on a solution already proven in financial securities markets — that opens up these possibilities in the realm of plant continuous condition monitoring.

With over 100 years of transmission and distribution experience in Calgary, ENMAX has only been in the power generation business for a few years following the acquisition of the Shepard Energy Centre (SEC). The addition of SEC has doubled the generation operated portfolio for ENMAX requiring significant work to ensure the facility conforms to the company’s Operations and Maintenance programs. This presentation will describe various integration strategies that ENMAX undertook including: building an organizational design to fit with the asset use plan; identifying all individual assets and use a structured approach for risk assessment and maintenance recommendations; developing spare parts purchasing plan based using risk based methodology; establish complete regulatory compliance program and EHS procedures and systems; and integrating everything into ENMAX’s existing systems. This presentation will explore both the challenges and benefits of this major endeavor.