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Business Execution - Solutions & Technology (PTY) Ltd

Integration of Business systems 


Armature offer solutions that demonstrate unique understanding of the retail supply chain process and its interdependencies, supported by seamless data architecture, in-depth professional skills and a program of third-party strategic alliances. 
Together, these strengths enable Armature to realize competitive advantage for its clients throughout the retail supply chain, providing them with the flexibility to respond to the increasing complexity and pace of change in the retail sector.


MAXIMO generates significantly more software license revenue than any other single product in our marketplace. PSDI's suite of enterprise asset maintenance products automates all aspects of maintenance operations, including equipment history, scheduling, preventative maintenance, work order, labor and expense tracking, and reporting. 
MAXIMO is designed to help organizations reduce equipment downtime, closely control and track maintenance expenses, cut spare parts inventories and costs, improve safety, increase purchasing efficiency, and more effectively deploy productive assets, personnel and other resources. More efficient maintenance operations can have a direct effect on the bottom line, decreasing overall maintenance costs by as much as 25%. For Fortune 1000 companies using MAXIMO, this can mean cost savings in the millions of dollars.

Key Customers & Success Stories for Maximo in Saudi Arabia

(LUBEREF): Saudi Aramco Lubricating Oil Refining Co: 

LUBEREF is the sole producer of base oils in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is the sole supplier to all international oil companies operating in the kingdom. These include Petrolube, Mobil, Shell, Caltex, Fuchs and others. These companies process base oils and treat them with chemical additives, in order to produce the vast range of lubricating oils used for industrial, agricultural and military purposes. 70% of the capital of LUBEREF is held by Saudi Aramco and 30% held by MOBIL OIL (International Company).

LUBEREF has implemented MAXIMO Computerized Maintenance Management System to automate their maintenance operations of their two sites one in Yanbu and other in Jeddah. The CMMS system implementation and integrating it with the Oracle Financials ERP used by Luberef was completely carried out by NCSC.

(PETROKEMYA) Arabian Petrochemical Company : 

PETROKEMYA is fully owned by SABIC group of companies, located in Jubail industrial city PETROKEMYA is involved in manufacture of Petrochemicals ie:- Ethylene, Butene, Olefins, Polystyrene.

PETROKEMYA has implemented Oracle Financials as their ERP system and MAXIMO CMMS as their Maintenance Management system and both the systems are integrated using Maximo API for Oracle Financials. Within a year of going live with CMMS, Petrokemya decided to increase the number of user licenses to 100 concurrent user from original 50 concurrent users.

THE SAVOLA COMPANY: 

Savola is a leading food processing company in the Kingdom involved with projects ranging from Edible Oil, Snack Foods, Dairy Products, Sugar Refining to Packaging & Agro industries. Savola has implemented MAXIMO CMMS for improving the efficiency of their maintenance operations.

SAUDI BINLADIN GROUP- Operation and Maintenance Division: 
Binladin O&M is a leading Operation and Maintenance Company in the Kingdom with over 200 diversified projects. These range from the Holy Mosques at Mekkah and Medina to domestic airports, sea ports, residential and commercial facilities and manufacturing plants.
Binladin has implemented MAXIMO CMMS throughout its' major projects to improve the efficiency of maintenance programes and to reduce operational overhead costs. Amr Taher, the CMMS Section Head at Saudi
Binladin Group O&M commented, "The advantages of implementing MAXIMO have already been realized during the first year. We have saved more than 0.5 million Saudi Riyals from efficient stock control alone, compared to the previous year. In addition we have enhanced the tracking of all project transactions and have improved manpower ".
Products

The MAXIMO suite of maintenance management software systems provides a comprehensive array of products and price points that meet the needs of maintenance environments of any size. 

Business Execution - Solutions & Technology (PTY) Ltd. 

Business Modeling and Simulation 

In modern complex environments the use of dynamic simulations for investigating new business and upgrades has become extremely important. The impact of change in these businesses is multidimensional and cannot be easily explored and quantified using traditional methods. 
Many clients have been using BeST's services to create "virtual businesses" to explore the effects of planned changes on their bottom line. 
Figure 1: The figure below shows a screen dump of one of many alternatives explored when optimising the design and operation of SASOL Coal's Twistdraai Coal Export Project. The model takes into account all the dynamics of the operation from the coal arising at the pitheads to final delivery at Richards Bay Coal Terminal and Sasol SSP. It included inter alia water and power balances. 

Manufacturing Execution Systems 

Until very recently, there has been very little automation of the systems linking the entire manufacturing processes. 
Modern technology, combined with good engineering and information science has now enabled systems to be developed to co-ordinate the entire manufacturing, processing or mining complex. 
This provides production with an effective means of planning, executing, monitoring and controlling the whole production process of complex businesses. 

BeST has been involved in providing the completed systems and specialised components like scheduling for many blue chip clients. 
Figure 2: The diagram below illustrated the components and sub-processes of a manufacturing execution system and how it is mapped to the company's objectives 

Control and Advanced Control Systems 

The fundamental requirement for effective automation is the installation of good process control environments. 

BeST has grown out of this environment and has considerable expertise in PLC1, SCADA2 and DCS3 environments. The successful deployment of such systems, collectively known as base level control, requires in depth knowledge of the technical control systems, and knowledge of the processes that are being controlled. 

BeST has also invested considerable time and effort into the development in advanced process control technology. This technology provides the operator with a real time decision support environment. This means that the optimal process control can be safely achieved.
 
Figure 3: Featured below is an illustration of the Cement Kiln at Dwaalboom. This unit has installed an adaptive model predictive controller. It is part of a cement plant that is operated by a totally integrated control system designed and installed by BeST. 

Integration of Business systems 
The biggest potential to leverage value from a business's information and control environment is by the integration of these systems. 

A major obstacle in doing this is the fact that most business systems function as transactional systems while control systems operate in real time. The integration of these systems is not trivial. This is depicted in the figure below.

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