Many companies have implemented Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems to support their maintenance programs, but don’t have the tools in place to develop, manage and evaluate the effectiveness of their asset strategies. This is where the benefits of integrating the EAM system and Meridium emerge. Integrating data from the two sources (and other data sources) provides decision-makers with a risk-based asset performance management (APM) solution capable of achieving corporate production targets with existing equipment.

The Meridium APM-EAM Interfaces provide the following capabilities:

• Extraction interfaces - provides the key data (equipment/asset, functional locations, notifications/work requests, and orders) required to support most APM work processes.
• Notification/Work Request creation - enables recommendations generated in the Meridium APM system to trigger the creation of notifications/work requests in the EAM system.
• EAM work management integration - allows companies to manage the collection of detailed condition assessment data, such as inspections and calibrations, while accounting for resources and costs on orders in the EAM system.

Meridium enhances the value of the data being collected in SAP and other enterprise systems. Industry norms indicate that the potential uptime gain from improvements in reliability when implementing a best-in-class APM program is worth five times the cost of maintenance. In most organizations, the data is there. The workflow to collect the data may also be in place in some form or fashion. But the real value of an integrated APM program lies in the ability to see the impact of asset strategies and evaluate the performance of existing systems. Without access to the data, however, there is no visibility to the information and therefore no value. The Meridium APM-SAP Interface brings the valuable information already being gathered by SAP and other execution systems into a single framework for meaningful analysis to drive business decisions and help build asset strategies in line with corporate objectives.

While standard interfaces exist for SAP PM, Oracle eAM and IBM Maximo, Meridium has the ability to integrate with other EAM systems as well by utilizing our Meridium Integration Web Services.