INDUSTRY

Gas Distribution

Risks
  • No visibility on stock availability
  • Cost increase
  • No visibility on maintenance on each asset

The Study

The natural gas distribution company in Malaysia was established in the year 1992, to sell, market, and distribute natural gas as well as develop, operate, and maintain Natural Gas Distribution System within Peninsular Malaysia. The company headquarters is located in Shah Alam. It has three regional offices, located in Prai, Gebeng, and Pasir Gudang, and seven branch offices located throughout Peninsular Malaysia.  

With the transition of today, they aim to be an innovative and value-added premier energy solutions provider with the cleanest, safest, cost-effective energy solutions to their customers. Industry players are now depending on its critical assets to keep production moving at the speed of demand. Thus, our client looks forward to working with YNY Technology in order to be able to analyze operations data to detect performance and maintenance strategies while preventing failures in their business.

 

OUR

CUSTOMER CHALLENGE

Our client continuously ensures safe, security, reliability, and efficiency as the nation’s largest natural gas distribution company in Malaysia. However, the limited functionality of data visualization and reporting tools; the limited amount of historical data available within their operations caused them to face numerous challenges:   

  • Every maintenance procedure, plan and schedule are recorded on paper, as the internal team of process engineers has no visibility on tracking and planning too.   
  • No visibility on maintenance Operating Expenses (OPEX) and Capital expenditures (CAPEX) spending   
  • No visibility on stock availability  
  • Cost increase due to extra time spent on tracking and consolidating information  
  • No visibility on maintenance on each asset affected higher risk of asset breakdown and safety hazards  
OUR

SOLUTION

Digitization & Mobility.  

Trusting YNY Technology’s expertise in maintenance systems, we first understand the customer’s business needs in AMR, SCADA, Metering, maintenance etc. and the requirements for asset management and maintenance. Then, a maintenance system (CMMS) is developed and implemented to centralize and manage all maintenance procedures and documents among the 11 branches in Malaysia.  

The maintenance system is able to provide complete visibility and control of the asset management strategy from spares and inventory management with complete procurement capability. This enables businesses to manage and plan incoming work requests, as well as even automatically generate work from preventive maintenance programs. When it is repeatable job tasks, the system is able to trigger automatic work orders such as operating statistics and inspection checklists.  

The main functions for our clients are as follows:  

  • a. Maintenance Management, Inventory (Spare parts)  
  • b. Digitization of Manual Forms   
  • c. Digital Approvals workflow  
  • d. VIP Advanced Scheduling  
  • e. Mobile Maintenance (80 active tablets)  
  • f. Maintenance Dashboard  
  • g. Collectively 100 users  
THE

RESULT

Together, YNY Technology brings in GoDigital computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) and Mobile Maintenance to improve their current process to become more effective and efficient to safeguard their assets and reliability.

A complete dashboard is built to represent data as well as able to scale up to more users. The models allow our client to integrate plant floor assets into their dashboard analytics and ERP for future planning & analysis:   

  

  1. Document: Documents are now digitalized, to help them to reduce time-consuming issues, error-prone and information is not centralized.  
  2. Alerts: With the help of CMMS software, customers are able to be notified when a breakdown has occurred.  
  3. Data: Customers are able to be aware of their equipment asset condition in the dashboard on required info and data.  Able to preview work histories and manuals which ease communication between the internal team.   
  4. Stock: Customer has full visibility as to part stock & quantity information. Therefore, it will reduce downtime duration, avoid paying higher prices and avoid lost production.  
  5. New Equipment: Customers are able to justify purchasing new machines & equipment, as they can keep track of their cost usage compared to a new machine.   
  6. Risk: Proper documentation procedures and audit log history are enhanced in order to reduce the risk of liability and change of missing data regarding WO/asset  
  7. Mobile: With mobile app solutions, the internal team can complete work immediately without encountering time delays, missing information, or coordination issue. Data are then saved to a centralized database for team members and managers to preview it.    
  8. Cost reduction, reduce equipment downtime, and unplanned shutdown.