Title: Work Management System Implementation at
1Work Management System Implementation at
2Owen Electric Cooperative
- 60,000 Services Covering 9 Counties in Northern
Kentucky (Urban in North, Rural in the South) - 132 Employees
- Contract Out R-O-W, Pole Treatment, Work Plan
Jobs - 2400 Connects Per Year, 3000 plus Work Orders per
year - 8 Million Dollar per Year Work Plan
(Distribution, no subs or transmission) - OEC IT Systems (Entire Company on WAN, HQ and
four satellites) - SEDC (Billing and Plant Accounting)
- Milsoft Engineering
- Milsoft Outage
- UAI Staking and GIS
- QEI SCADA
- Porche/Telelink IVR Call Command
- Motorola AVL
- Homemade Software Solutions
- Cannon AMI
3Owen Electric Cooperative
- Why on Gods green earth did OEC get involved in
designing its own Work Management System? - Strategically, OEC staff felt it was necessary to
have a system to improve our Work Order/Work
Request Process. - None of OECs existing vendors had a solution or
where not planning one.
4Work Management System
Why? Because that is where all our money is
going (outside of the power bill)
5Work Management System
Dollars are tied up first in Overheads and Labor
and the Material and Transportation
6Where Were WeAccess/SQL Programs
- Electrical Inspections
- Survey Orders
- Maintenance Orders
- Assessment Database
- Various Spreadsheets (Work Plan Subdivisions,
Sectionalizing, etc.)
7Electrical Inspections
8Survey Orders
9Maintenance Orders
10Work Management Systems
- Most of the focus of Academia and/or software
companies is and has been in the following
industries.. - Hospitals
- Airlines
- Transportation (RRs/Trucking/Shipping)
- Utility Industry at the IOU level
Thats where the money is until now
11What was Out There..
- MDSI MDSI-Avantex.com
- SPL World Group
- Logica logicacmg.com
- UAI (Outage)
- SEDC - (Service Orders)
- NISC iVUE (All Areas)
- Some good work at various coops in WMS databases
(Warren, Motherlode)
12NISC
13Motherlode www.motherlode.biz
Coops in upper Midwest, originally focused on
data side
14WMS Your Definition ???
- WMS can mean many things to many people
- Project Management
- Data Management
- Asset Management
- Work Force Management
- Workflow Management
- Workload Management
15Owen Electric Cooperative
- Goals and Objectives of System
- All Information about work requests and work
orders in one location - System to enhance the work flow process
- System must allow OEC to schedule work
- System must be user friendly and stable
- System must be integrated with existing software
systems, no stand alone.
16Work Management System
- Safety First All procedures and actions
- Process Analysis Including
- Work Order Process
- Crew Man Power Allocation
- Inventory/Material Process
- Scheduling Process
- Assessments/Work Load is known upfront, use
common base (man hours per task) - Historical Cost/Time Information
- Experience
- Contractor Bids/Work Plan Contracts
- Time and Motion Studies
- Share Information w/ Other Utilities
17Work Management System
- Organize all work functions
- Capital Work Orders
- R-O-W Contractors or In-House
- Maintenance Service Orders
- Start small.Schedule one crew for one week and
then expand - Review all the processes to make adjusts to them
are your experience grows and the learning curve
shortens
18Owen Electric Cooperative
- The result is ComLogic
- ComLogic is divided up into three areas
- Work Request
- Job Orders
- Scheduling
19- Locate any account by multiple search
capabilities -
- Customer Location Information auto-populates the
work request -
20- Any employee can create the work request and
routes the Work Request to the proper warehouse.
21 The Service Planner field surveys the work
request and if field work is necessary, a
maintenance or job order will be assigned to the
work request.
22 The Service Planner will open the assigned job
order in ComLogic and add all the information
needed to the job to be worked by a crew.
23 Specific details concerning the job can be added
under the various categories (tabs).
All Job Order Header information is
automatically transferred to OECs system. The
job can now be staked in the GIS system.
24 The GIS system, using the information from
ComLogic, prepares the staking sheets and
material sheets for the job
25- The job is staked in the GIS system and
printed to the proper warehouse. The Work Order
Scheduler uses the ComLogic System to schedule
the job along with the other work that has been
released.
26 Through the scheduling system, jobs can be
sorted and searched in a number of ways. The
Scheduler individually schedules each job.
27 The job is assigned to crew and a date it is
scheduled.
28 The calendar displays the scheduled jobs and
they are automatically removed when the job is
complete.
29 The map portion in the scheduling system gives a
graphic representation of the work available and
shows other jobs scheduled/unscheduled.
30What Direction Are We Going..
- SEDC The WMS module will be coming out in
April. WMS tabs already in place in Version 23.
OEC will migrate to the SEDC Version based upon
the starting features and timing of enhancements. - Sentinel Working with Sentinel to make the
existing ComLogic software better. No
significant enhancements have been done by OEC
because of SEDC implementation.
31ComLogic
- Present Capabilities
- Enhancements
- Future Direction
32Questions?/Contact Info.
- Tim Cammack Owen Electric
- tcammack_at_owenelectric.com
- 502.563.3512
- Dan Colby Sentinel USA
- colby_at_sentinelusa.com
- 740.349.5012
- Chuck Gill Owen Electric
- cgill_at_owenelectric.com
- 502.563.3510