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Avantis helps Vectren attain New Heights in Maintenance, Planning and Cost Tracking

Customer Company Size

Large Corporate

Region

America

Country

United States

Product

Avantis Asset Management Software
Avantis InRIM

Tech Stack

Oracle

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Cost Savings
Productivity Improvements

Technology Category

Functional Applications - Enterprise Asset Management Systems (EAM)

Applicable Industries

Utilities

Applicable Functions

Maintenance

Use Cases

Asset Lifecycle Management
Predictive Maintenance

Services

System Integration

About The Customer

Vectren Corporation is a $2 billion utility company based in Evansville, Indiana. The company provides electricity or natural gas to nearly two-thirds of Indiana and 16 counties in Ohio. Vectren operates two power plants, which together use five coal-fired units and six gas turbines to produce about 1,400 megawatts of generating capacity. The company is also in the wholesale market for power sales where availability has tremendous financial implications. Vectren plays an integral part in the day-to-day lives of more than one million energy users.

The Challenge

Vectren Corporation, a $2 billion utility company based in Evansville, Indiana, provides electricity or natural gas to nearly two-thirds of Indiana and 16 counties in Ohio. The company operates two power plants, which together use five coal-fired units and six gas turbines to produce about 1,400 megawatts of generating capacity. Keeping these plants running continuously and efficiently is vital to Vectren’s mission to serve customers. Vectren is also in the wholesale market for power sales where availability has tremendous financial implications. The company's challenge was to reduce its overall operations, maintenance, and capital spending, while keeping the availability high. As a key part of its strategy for meeting this challenge, Vectren management set out to eliminate inefficiencies in scheduling maintenance, ordering parts and keeping track of completed work.

The Solution

Vectren implemented Schneider Electric’s Avantis® enterprise asset management software to help eliminate inefficiencies in scheduling maintenance, ordering parts and keeping track of completed work. Avantis gave Vectren an enterprise database that enabled management to capture and analyze data about the current and historical maintenance work. It also helped track the cost of maintaining any given piece of equipment, keeping track of work orders and labor time, and ascertaining key performance indicators and benchmarks throughout the maintenance operation. The Avantis solution also helped the Vectren plants achieve a breakthrough in tracking data at the work-order level. Previously, separating expenditure data from information about what planned and unplanned work was being done was the source of considerable frustration.

Operational Impact

The Avantis solution enabled Vectren to efficiently track 6,000 unique assets and more than 33,000 individual spare parts, keeping track of work orders and labor time.
The solution helped Vectren to ascertain key performance indicators and benchmarks throughout the maintenance operation.
The Avantis solution also helped the Vectren plants achieve a breakthrough in tracking data at the work-order level.

Quantitative Benefit

Since the implementation of the Avantis solution, Vectren has completed 12,000 work tasks, of which 7,300 were corrective repairs and 3,500 were preventive maintenance work tasks.
In addition, employees completed 250 “safety” work orders.