Maximo HSE Application Maps – Improvements (HSE)

HSE-ImprovementAn improvement may be improving a business process or making a change to plant. An improvement can be created from various sources; from an idea, as a result of a failure analysis, an analysis into eliminating a defect, a cost/benefit analysis, as part of continuous improvement or as the first stage in a management of change process. An improvement record allows you to record planned and actual costs and benefits.

An improvement is a class of work order and has much of the same functionality. However, you are not performing work, there are no labor, materials, tools and services to record. The planned estimates are recorded at a higher level than a work order and similarly the actuals may be taken from a summary of actuals recorded on multiple work orders, think of this more as the estimating you might perform on a project.

An improvement can exist in a work package, a hierarchy of improvement records. An improvement can have multiple tasks. The records in the hierarchy should all be of class IMPROVEMENT because an improvement is based on a view of the WORKORDER table. If you try to add an improvement to a parent with a different class of work order or to add a child record with a different class of work order, then you won’t be able to see it in the Improvements (HSE) application, and it may cause unexpected results. The standard actions Create Work Package or Assign to New Parent which work from the List tab against a selected set of improvement records can be useful in creating or restructuring the improvement hierarchy.

Like a work order an improvement can be assigned an owner or owner group, or a Service Level Agreement can be applied to calculate target start and target finish dates, for example, if you wish to have specific targets for certain types or priority of improvement. An improvement record can be classified but there is no Specification tab, it could be added through configuration. The set of statuses are the same as for a work order but the default on record creation is DRAFT, otherwise they are WAPPR, APPR, WMATL, WPCOND, INPRG, COMP, CAN, CLOSE.

You are most likely to create follow-up work orders, investigations, MOC or another improvement record. There are other create actions for service requests, incidents, MOC request or an action. Other tickets and work orders can be related to the improvement record from the Related Records tab and here there is an additional table window to see related operator log entries. Like many other ticket and work order based applications the Improvement application may support a workflow process.

An improvement uses the work order class of PLUSGIMP. It is defined at the Site level and has a unique key based on SITEID, WONUM.

Improvement Tab

The header fields, Improvement (WONUM), Owner, Owner Group, Status and Site are all standard work order fields which are either always read-only or read-only after save. The status is changed using the Change Status action and the ownership is changed by using either the Select Owner or Take Ownership actions. The View History action shows both the status history and ownership history.

User Information section

The user information section follows a similar layout to that found on ticket-based applications.

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Improvement Details section

All the fields in this section except one are standard in the Work Order Tracking application but the layout has been changed to reflect that seen in ticket based applications and the screen has been simplified. The priority is the work order priority in range 0 to 999 where 999 is high. The classification has a Use With Object of PLUSGIMPROVE, there is no Specifications tab to show any attributes of the classification.

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Address Information, Multi Assets, Locations and CIs sections

These two sections are identical to that found in Work Order Tracking.

Dates section

The target, scheduled and actual start and finish dates are also found on the main tab of Work Order Tracking application. The target dates can be calculated when an SLA is applied, and the scheduled dates can be populated when improvements, MOC and other work orders are scheduled using the Maximo Scheduler.

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Plans Tab

There are three table windows on the Plans tab; Children, Tasks and Costs and Benefits.

Children table window

Improvements can exist in a work package; an improvement can have both a parent and children. All records in the hierarchy must be classed as Improvements. The layout of the table window is similar to that found on Work Order Tracking, just a few fields removed to simplify the layout. You can change the status of the children improvement records directly from the table window. The default setting is that the status is rolled down the hierarchy from the point where you change status but if that is not required the checkbox Inherit Status Changes on a child improvement record can be unchecked.

Tasks table window

The tasks table window of an improvement is very similar to that seen in Work Order Tracking application. You can change the status of a task from the table window. The application launched from the Reference WO field is Operator Tasks (HSE). The Classification has the Use With Object of WOACTIVITY. The tasks are most likely created as a result of applying a Job Plan. There is a New Row button but if you start creating tasks the Job Plan field becomes read-only.

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Costs and Benefits table window

The Costs and Benefits table window in the Plans tab allows multiple records to be added, these may or may not be linked directly to a task. Each record can be linked to a Benefit and Loss record, of impact type Benefit or where the Benefit and Loss Apply field is checked. This is a reference benefit. The estimated benefits and costs for the improvement are entered in the section called Estimates.

The Estimates section could allow a benefit to be added in a non-monetary unit, but it is better to handle this in a Benefit and Losses record and leave the Estimates section to be entirely in the base currency of the Organization. There is an action View Benefits which is comparing Impact with Cost and this would be difficult to understand if the estimated benefit was not in monetary terms. For example, an improvement in one aspect of a production line might increase the number of units produced by 5 but would cost 20,000 €. That would be difficult to compare unless you knew the unit price.

If you don’t enter a value for the Estimated Benefit field, then the Impact will show zero in the View Benefits dialog box. If you are using a Benefit record then there are some Estimate fields on that record and it might be useful to also display these values so that you can copy and align the values for Estimated Benefit, Estimated Cost and Cost Estimate Class. If they are not aligned then someone might wonder what figure is correct, the one on the Improvement record or the one on the associated Benefit and Losses record assuming this has values.

The figures entered in the Estimates section are summed for the Improvement record and also for the Improvement record and any descendent Improvement records in the hierarchy. These figures are shown in the View Benefits dialog box, this is similar to the View Costs action on a standard work order.

Below the Costs and Benefits table window are buttons for New Row and Select Benefits. You can select the same Benefit multiple times which might be useful if you want to connect multiple tasks to the same benefit, but don’t duplicate the benefits or costs. Also, beware, it is possible to select a Loss record. If you do so, then you will probably want to show the Estimated Benefit as a negative.

The Planned Costs and Benefits can only be added and amended while the improvement record is at an internal state of WAPPR, this is any synonym of WAPPR. This is controlled by a setting in Organizations (HSE) called Improvements – Edit Rules (see below).

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Estimates section

You can enter estimated benefits and costs without having to use a Benefits and Losses record.

Reference Benefits section

All of the fields in this section are displaying the fields from the Benefit and Losses record, they are read-only.

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Related Records Tab

This tab shows related work orders, tickets and operator log entries. Related Work Orders and Related Tickets are read-only. Related Operator Log Entries can be modified (see below).

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Related Operator Log Entries table window

The Related Operator Log Entries are created in Improvements (HSE) application by using the Select Log Entries button. The table window presents more information than seen for Related Tickets and Related Work Orders. The three Carry Over fields at the bottom of the screen are enterable.

The three Carry Over fields act similar to a radio button in that only one of the fields can be used, the other two becoming read-only on leaving that field.

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Actuals Tab

There are three table windows on the Actuals tab; Children, Tasks and Costs and Benefits.

Children table window

Improvements can exist in a work package; an improvement can have both a parent and children. All records in the hierarchy must be classed as Improvements. The layout of the table window is similar to that found on the Plans tab there are a couple of fields missing for the reference to a Route. The Actuals Tab would be used after the Improvement has reached APPR state (approved). You can change the status of the children improvement records directly from the table window. The default setting is that the status is rolled down the hierarchy from the point where you change status but if that is not required the checkbox Inherit Status Changes can be unchecked on the child improvement record.

Tasks table window

The tasks table window of an improvement is similar to that shown on the Plans tab. Although the layout is slightly different most of the fields exist on both Plans and Actuals. You can change the status of a task from the table window. The application launched from the Reference WO field is Operator Tasks (HSE). There is a New Row button for creating additional tasks in addition to those that may have been entered through applying a Job Plan.

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Costs and Benefits table window

The actual cost and benefits records are stored in a different table (PLUSGACTBENEFIT) from the planned cost and benefit records (PLUSGLISTIMPBEN). No planned costs and benefits will be seen on the Actuals tab, but the Select Planned Benefits button can be used to copy the planned records to actuals and then the fields in the Actuals section modified to reflect actual benefits and costs.

These records do not become read-only until the improvement record has reached CLOSE status and then they can be still be modified if the user has access to the action Edit History Improvement.

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Actuals section

You can enter actual benefits and costs without having to use a Benefits and Losses record.

Reference Benefits section

All of the fields in this section are displaying the field from the Benefit and Losses record, they are read-only.

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Project Details Tab

This tab provides details of the improvement project and how the benefits might be measured.

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Mission section

Defects and Measurements section

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Team Members table window

The team members of the improvement initiative or the team assembled to eliminate a defect can be any person at Active status. The table window has buttons for New Row and Select People which allows multiple people to be selected in one action.

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Log Tab

This is the standard layout seen in many work order and ticket based applications with tabs for the Work Log and Communication Log.

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Service Address Tab

This is a standard tab seen on ticket and work order based applications. The Service Address is copied from the location record but there is an option Create New Service Address on the Service Address field which will allow you to use the improvement record’s address fields to create and populate a service address record. If the improvement is against a location or asset with no direct service address, then Maximo will traverse up the parent hierarchies using the location system marked as the Address system until a Service Address is found and it will use this address and its latitude/longitude co-ordinates to display the spatial position of the investigation on a map.

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Map Tab

This is a standard tab seen on ticket and work order based applications. The Formatted Address is used to find the geospatial position and copy the coordinates to the latitude/longitude fields. If the position shown on the map is not quite correct the position can be adjusted by dragging the map point to the correct position.

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Actions

List Tab Actions – These are standard for work order based applications:

Organizations (HSE)

There are two actions under Oil and Gas / HSE Manager Shared Options which have an effect on the Improvements (HSE) application.

Improvements – Edit Rules

This setting determines when the Costs and Benefits table window is editable on the Plans tab. The internal work order status values are shown and by default this table window is only editable at the synonym statuses of WAPPR. The screen shot is showing 1-5 of 8, WAPPR is on the second page.

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Improvements – Additional Options

This dialog box has one field which is the multiplier used in the defect density calculation.

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