esoms Ensure safe, efficient and reliable operation and maintenance of facility assets

esoms Ensure safe, efficient and reliable operation and maintenance of facility assets

Managing complex plant operations demands a comprehensive, integrated software system that not only optimizes performance, but can be implemented quickly and adapted to plant-specific procedures and processes. For over three decades, ABB has been at the forefront of the development and successful implementation of operations management information systems for the electric power, chemical, marine, military, petrochemical, and pulp & paper industries. Drawing on its deep domain expertise in the operations management automation area, ABB offers esoms, the Electronic Shift Operations Management System. esoms users rely on this mission-critical software to ensure the safe, efficient and reliable operation and maintenance of their facilities and assets. Benefits of using esoms esoms is designed to provide a consistent, organized, and integrated approach to activities that affect equipment configuration, system status, and therefore plant operation. This means that your facility will benefit from the following: Enhanced efficiency, productivity, and safety Users have reported significant, measurable gains in efficiency and productivity in operations tasks automated by esoms. For example, using the equipment position verification tracking capabilities of the Clearance modules, electrical power generation customers were able to eliminate repetitive in-plant equipment position verifications by taking credit for electronic procedures and tagouts recently performed. The decreased number of in-plant equipment manipulations required meant that the human error rate for such activities dropped dramatically. Reduced time and costs of operations activities Taking advantage of electronic tag sharing in the esoms Clearance module, a military customer realized a 94% decrease in the total number of tags required to be processed during a 14-month major asset overhaul, saving an estimated $4-6 million in man-hours alone. Similarly, commercial power plant customers have shaved up to a week off the duration of major plant outages as a direct result of esoms implementations. Estimates of replacement power costs alone saved by bringing a major power plant back online a week early range from $3-5 million. Consistent and compliant processes esoms ensures that equipment and systems that are unavailable or inoperable due to various operations and maintenance activities are restored within regulatory time limits. All organizations benefit from a corporate-wide standard in the areas of operations and maintenance management, particularly in those organizations that share resources among several plant locations. For example, an international petrochemical manufacturer was able to create and better manage a consistent framework for operations routine duties across its fleet of production facilities using the esoms Equipment, Operator Rounds, Narrative Logs, and Notice of Change modules. esoms in action At Grand Gulf, we decided we needed electronic tracking of tech spec requirements instead of the manual handwritten method we had been using since the plant started operation. The esoms software suite was chosen for a variety of reasons, including its capability to cross-reference LCOs to Clearances and other work documents, to ease the difficult task of ensuring all work and retests on a system are completed before exiting an LCO Action and restoring equipment to operable status. This can be a daunting task during large work scope activities such as system outages and refuel outages. Rick Ingram, Grand Gulf Operations Shift Supervisor/STA On moving from a manual to an electronic tracking system 2 esoms

Easier access to information and record keeping As an enterprise solution, critical information in each esoms module is just a few mouse clicks away. The esoms Narrative Logs module has become a fixture on the desktop of many plant managers as a tool to track the current operating status of the plant and to disseminate directives such as standing orders. esoms reports are Crystal Reports compatible, allowing you to customize the standard reports or create your own. esoms Qualifications ensures that the technicians assigned have the correct certification and training requirements fulfilled. esoms modular advantage esoms is a modular software application suite all designed to automate and integrate the major processes involved in facility operations management. The modules of esoms include: Clearances Operator Rounds Equipment Narrative Logs Notice of Change Administration AutoPrint System Interfaces In addition to the above, ABB also offers Mobile esoms, which is a Windows Mobile-based application designed to automate in-the-field data collection. Mobile esoms is licensed based on the number of devices used for data collection activities. Mobile esoms is designed to work with state-of-the-art mobile devices to facilitate data capture during field operations. The following esoms modules have been enabled with Mobile esoms functionality. Clearance Operator Rounds Narrative Logs Data sharing and built-in interfaces between esoms modules facilitate the integration of many operations related tasks while significantly reducing the amount of data entry required. Program modules at a glance esoms program modules encompass the basic software tools that assist in the management of plant operations. A brief description of each module is provided below. Clearances Designed to assist in implementing, controlling, and executing a plant s tagout/lockout procedure. The system facilitates access and linkage to equipment isolation, work status, and schedule information through interfaces to scheduling software, data historian, and product integration to Asset Suite Work Management. The system incorporates a revolutionary method for tag and lock sharing, which has been proven to save a significant amount of manpower resources during both normal plant operation and outages, without compromising personnel or plant safety. Operator Rounds To ensure that you are getting the most out of plant inspections, the esoms Operator Rounds module is designed to automate the tasks of collecting, computing, and storing data from operator rounds. The system provides personnel responsible for plant operation and performance with a powerful, yet easy-to-use tool for analyzing the data quickly and efficiently. Operator Rounds puts the power and flexibility of complex calculations, trending and analysis at the fingertips of operators both at the desktop and in the field where the likelihood of detecting and preventing equipment problems is greatly enhanced, thus maximizing plant reliability. Equipment The esoms Equipment module is used to assist in the definition and implementation of a consistent organized equipment identification system. The software has the capability to employ multiple types of equipment identification schemes, from rigorously coded IDs to noun descriptions. This affords front-line users of the software the freedom to sue the identification system that they are most familiar with, while maintaining back-end compatibility with other systems and databases. Narrative Logs The esoms Narrative Logs module provides plant operators, supervisors, and managers with an electronic journal for recording and qualifying events that occur during an individual s shift watch. The system tracks shift staffing, plant operating parameters, log entries, associated qualifying data, and web/document links on an individual plant unit and/or staff position basis. In addition to on-demand or template log entries, These automatic log entries are used to document the performance of procedures, tagouts, operator rounds regulatory action compliance, etc. Log entries can also be shared among departments, groups, or even within or across facilities. Notice of Change The Notice of Change (NoC) module provides personnel with a software tool to manage the complete life-cycle of the NoC process. Implementing an NoC process helps to ensure that the personnel are notified of changes to procedures and practices in a timely manner and facilitates access to NoC related information. esoms 3

Reporting tools allow management personnel to quickly determine the status of end-user NoC acknowledgement. Also included in the NoC process is the generation, delivery and tracking of automatic notifications from Clearance holder signon/off. Administration The Administration module provides tools for the esoms System Administrator to manage users and their security, manage preferences for all esoms modules, and manage qualifications and associate them to users. AutoPrint To eliminate much of the administrative burden associated with document management issues, the esoms AutoPrint module automates the process of creating, transmitting, and tracking critical operations documents from esoms. About ABB s Enterprise Software product group ABB provides industry leading software and deep domain expertise to help the world s most asset intensive industries such as energy, utilities and mining solve their biggest challenges, from plant level, to regional network scale, to global fleet-wide operations. Our enterprise software portfolio offers an unparalleled range of solutions for asset performance management, operations and workforce management, network control and energy portfolio management to help customers reach new levels of efficiency, reliability, safety and sustainability. We are constantly researching and incorporating the latest technology innovations in areas such as mobility, analytics and cloud computing. We provide unmatched capabilities to integrate information technologies (IT) and operational technologies (OT) to provide complete solutions to our customers business problems. System Interfaces esoms integrates with Asset Suite to provide efficient operation and optimized maintenance processes for the demanding plant environment. esoms also interfaces with other solutions for project scheduling, data historian software systems, enabling a tighter integration of all enterprise information systems. Mobile esoms Barcode and RFID scanning provides the capability to collect plant operations data and supports analysis in a mobile environment. Mobile esoms provides the software tools that not only eliminate the need for paper-based procedures, tagouts, rounds, and log sheets in the field, but bring about a whole new level of power and flexibility to plant operators. General features esoms manages multiple facilities in a single database. esoms can be deployed as either a site specific or enterprisewide solution that will be able to expand with your organization by utilizing an integrated suite of modules. Customers with multiple units or multiple sites will have the ability to use one single database without losing the ability to still keep specific functions at a facility level such as user s authority, rounds and logs definition. System-wide administrators as well as facility administrators can now coexist within the same database. 4 esoms

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