Amey gets on track for major asset improvement

Martyn Capes, head of ICT improvement at Amey, says the solution will help deliver cost-effective, planned and preventative maintenance, leading to reduced asset downtime and improved productivity. By the end of this year, he says Amey plans to manage 15 contracts using the solution. The organisation will then be able to monitor employee productivity, assess the physical condition and energy consumption of assets, and optimise work schedules and performance to align with its service level agreements. "Infor EAM has enabled us to innovate in many ways," says Capes. "We are now using information gathered by our mobile workforce, entered via handheld computers, to gain real time insights into the condition of assets." And he explains: "Because Infor EAM can cross-reference the GIS data from engineers' locations with their skill sets we can dynamically deploy our workforce to meet service level agreements. This is having a huge, positive impact on our productivity." Capes also says that Infor EAM's analytics within have also made for big improvements. "By spotting trends by location, time periods or even asset class, we can deliver real insight into the state of both linear and fixed assets for our customers. When you realise that these assets include schools, rail stations in major UK cities, military construction vehicles and over 20,000 kilometres of the UK's road network, you begin to see just how critical that insight can be." Amey is now looking to deploy Infor EAM Asset Sustainability Edition to assess the energy consumption of assets. The objective: enabling the company to offer advice and services to customers around energy efficiency.