Stena Drilling

Stena Drilling improves fleet efficiency with IBM Maximo EAMS delivered by Cohesive

Coordinating and streamlining the approach to maintenance delivers multiple efficiencies.

Summary

To coordinate and streamline the maintenance operation at Stena Drilling, Cohesive implemented IBM Maximo as a single Enterprise Asset Management Solution, consolidating separate and disparate legacy maintenance systems, delivering on time and on budget, and improving efficiency to help better manage Stena’s globally dispersed fleet.

Solutions

Enterprise Asset Management

The Challenge

Stena Drilling is one of the world’s foremost independent drilling contractors, providing drilling units and related services for the oil and gas exploration and production industries, and has a fleet comprising 5 ultra-deepwater drill ships based in the Canary Islands, Israel, Guyana and Scapa Flow in Scotland, 2 Semi-Submersible rigs and over 1,100 employees globally.

Innovation and technology are critical to future-proofing Stena’s assets and with disparate and separate legacy maintenance systems in operation across their fleet, they needed to coordinate and streamline these and their approach to maintenance, to deliver efficiencies. It was important that any chosen solution was delivered on time and to budget.

Our Solution

Stena selected IBM Maximo as its Enterprise Asset Management Solution and IBM Platinum Business Partner, Cohesive, was chosen to deploy the system across the company’s global fleet. To ensure that the system was delivered on time and on budget, Cohesive introduced Agile methodologies to execute.

The project included the full implementation of Maximo across the Stena fleet with full lifecycle asset management, multiple third-party financial integrations, and the deployment of Cohesive’s proprietary data replication solution for Maximo, CDR.

Critical elements of the project delivery included:

Automated integration between the Agresso Finance System and Maximo
Automated integration between the Palette e-Invoicing System and Maximo
Several custom Maximo applications, including a full Lifecycle Manifesting solution, a Meter Reading Application, and a Budget Monitor

At the outset of the project, we had our reservations over the Agile Project Management system, however, Cohesive has managed to stick to the original project timeline. Looking back at previous software projects, where a conventional waterfall project management system was used, we can definitely see the merit in adopting an strategic Agile approach with Cohesive.

Graham Burnt

Chief Technical Officer

The Client Benefits

Cohesive successfully delivered the project on time and on budget, with the full global roll-out being achieved in only 12 months.

This delivered greater visibility and control for Stena and enabled a more streamlined purchasing operation, so that equipment could be purchased in bulk from a single vendor, resulting in significant cost savings for the business.