The document discusses Nexen Energy's implementation of ISO 14224 standards for asset reliability data collection and analysis using SAP software. It describes how Nexen redesigned its technical hierarchy to align with ISO 14224, defining clear equipment boundaries and relationships. This improved data quality and enabled aggregated reliability metrics at the equipment level. The redesign process and lessons learned are discussed. Standard methods like the Industry Standard Plant Maintenance (ISPM) approach are presented for simplifying and automating failure analysis to identify high-risk equipment and prioritize corrective actions.
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Enabling Corporate Failure Metrics at Nexen Energy with ISO 14224
1. Driving Value from Assets
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Enabling Corporate Failure Metrics at Nexen
Energy with ISO 14224
Ramesh Vora, Senior SAP PM Business Analyst, Nexen Energy
Tony Ciliberti, Principal Engineer, Reliability Dynamics
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Agenda
• Presentation
– Process changes and benefits - Ramesh
– Methods and technical concepts – Tony
• Key learnings
– Nexen’s experience over the past 10 years with ISO 14224
– Common issues with technical structures and how to fix them
– How to construct an ISO 14224 compliant technical hierarchy
• Lessons learned
– Implementation and change management
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ISO Standards Reference
• ISO 14224:2006
Petroleum and natural gas industries — Collection and exchange of
reliability and maintenance data for equipment
• ISO 15926-2:2003
Industrial automation systems and integration — Integration of life-cycle
data for process plants including oil and gas production facilities
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Nexen Energy ULC and SAP
• SAP
– First go-live in January 2002 (version 4.6C)
– Global implementation with shared system configuration
and design
• Plant Maintenance
– Common order and notification types
– Unique technical object structures and classifications
– ISO 14224 methods implemented in 2006
– Long Lake technical hierarchy redesign completed in 2013
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Nexen Energy ULC
Roadmap
Recognize data deficiencies
and opportunities for
improvement
Review and choose
proven methods (e.g.
standard practices)
Evaluate
implementation
cost
Implement and
refine methods
Define
expected
results
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Issues Identified
• ISO 14224 Equipment boundaries not
defined in the technical hierarchy
• Malfunction reports NOT generated against
technical tags
• Data not aggregated to equipment level
• One notification type used for both general
maintenance and malfunction reporting
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Challenges
• Finding a solution
– Difficult to find a supplier with a firm grasp of the
issues and how to fix them
• Implementing the solution
– Entire Plant Maintenance infrastructure based on
the as-is structure
– How to covert to the to-be structure with a
minimum of pain
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Remedial Steps Taken
• ISO 14224-based technical hierarchy
– Consistent equipment boundary definitions
• Malfunction Report data validations
– Taxonomic level
– Minimum data set
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ISO 14224 Technical Structure
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Starting Point: Technical Drawings
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Design Template (ISO 14224)
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Functional Location / Equipment Relationship per
ISO 15926-2, Section E.3.3
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Results
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Benefits of New Structure
• Logical structure
– Consistent with international oil and gas standards ISO 14224 and 15926-2
• Best in class practice and aligned with OE principles
– Represents ISO 14224 equipment boundaries and interrelationship envelopes
• Defines a common reporting level: primary equipment (versus components).
• Exactly matches the ISO 14224 failure coding taxonomy (equipment subdivision).
• Exactly matches equipment classes from ISO 14224
• Navigation and reporting easier, more accurate and quicker
– Simplified tag numbers: Area ID + technical ID
• Minimizes learning curve for end users
• Quality assurance
– Minimizes human error in specifying notifications and order reference objects
– One set of standards for all current and future facilities
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Challenges with the Old Structure
• Structural design
– Based on Process flow diagrams
– Inconsistent application of WBS levels in FLOC structure
• FL master records
– Very long string, confusing and difficult to remember for end users
– Inconsistent with engineering tags (not enough space to enter dashes)
• No one-to-one cardinality between FL and equipment
– Some FLs had more than 300 equipment assigned under it, making
difficult to navigate
• Reporting for cost analysts and maintenance managers was
difficult
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Steam Generation: New versus Old
Structures
• Structure
– Entire layer eliminated
– Logically organized by
equipment type
– Category shows
taxonomic level
• Tag format
– Simple and short
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New Structure: All Steam Generators in One Place
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Old Structure: Steam Generators split
between CPF and Debottlenecking
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New: HP BFW Pump
• The technical
structure defines:
– ISO 14224 equipment
boundaries
– Equipment
interrelationships
• Simple user
navigation
• Data relationships
can be interpreted by
the system
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Old: HP BFW Pump
• Equipment boundaries and
interrelationship not defined in the
structure
• Primary equipment has two
separate and unrelated tag
numbers
• Many different component tags
without relationships to parents
equipment
• Located in different parts of the
technical hierarchy
• Function location IDs are long and
unwieldy
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Technical Hierarchy Conversion Process
• One functional location created for each technical tag
– Equipment objects installed with 1:1 cardinality
– No new equipment objects created
• Alternative labelling used to update functional location IDs
• FL categories were assigned based on taxonomic level
• Notifications were updated with new functional object
• Maintenance plans stayed with equipment objects
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Equipment Taxonomy
Definitions
• Starting point was ISO
14224, Annex A
• Additional “extended”
ISO 14224 definitions
developed as required
LLAK
Nexen
ObjTyp
codes
FLoc
Structure
Code FLoc Structure Code Description Code Source
BCR CR CRANES ISO 14224:1999
BFL FL FILTERS & STRAINERS
BHB HB HEATERS & BOILERS ISO 14224:1999
BHE HE HEAT EXCHANGERS ISO 14224:1999
BHV HV HVAC
BLA LA LOADING ARMS
BPI PI PIPING ISO 14224:1999
BSD SD STACKS & DUCTING
BSE SE STEAM EJECTORS
BSY SY STEAM TRAPS
BTK TK STORAGE TANKS ISO 14224:2016
BVE VE VESSELS ISO 14224:1999
ELECTRICAL (E ) ECB CB CABLES & TERMINATORS
ECN CN FREQUENCY CONVERTERS ISO 14224:2016
ELI LI LIGHTING
EPC PC PROTECTION CTRL MNTR
EPT PT POWER TRANSFORMERS ISO 14224:2006
ESG SG SWITCHING GEAR/DSTRB ISO 14224:2016
EUP UP UPS ISO 14224:2006
FAU AU AUTOMOBILES
FMB MB OTHER MOBILE EQUIP
FTR TR TRUCKS
SAFETY & CONTROL (I) ICL CL CONTROL UNITS ISO 14224:1999
IFF FF FIRE-FIGHTING EQUIP
IFG FG FIRE & GAS DETECTORS ISO 14224:1999
IIP IP INPUT DEVICES ISO 14224:1999
IVA VA VALVES ISO 14224:1999
ROTATING (R ) RBL BL BLOWERS & FANS
RCO CO COMPRESSORS ISO 14224:1999
RCY CY CONVEYORS
REG EG ELECTRIC GENERATORS ISO 14224:1999
RGT GT TURBINES-GAS ISO 14224:1999
RHD HD HYDRAULIC DRIVE
RLX LX LIQUID EXPANDER
RMX MX MIXERS
RPU PU PUMPS ISO 14224:1999
RST ST TURBINES-STEAM ISO 14224:1999
RTE TE TURBOEXPANDERS ISO 14224:1999
INFRA-STRUCTURE (T) TCV CV CIVIL
TSH SH SHOP & TESTING EQUIP
TTL TL TELECOM EQUIPMENT
MECHANICAL
(STATIONARY) (B )
FLEET/MOBILE (F)
EQUIPMENT
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Lessons Learned
• Sponsorship
– Active support from the highest level of leadership is a must!
• Structure should be:
– Consistent for all plant areas
– User friendly
• Planners and craft people: easy to navigate
• Asset Performance Analyst: easy to extract equipment data
• Finance: allow cost roll-up per financial structure
• Management: easy to generate reports
• Not all equipment classes are represented in ISO 14224, Annex A
– Extend Annex A for specific equipment requirements
• Don’t underestimate roll-out and change management
– Learning curve to get familiar with the new set up
– Include support groups like Finance, HR, Supply chain, health and safety, etc.
– Factor-in post go live support to end users
• E.g., changes to global and user specific selection variants and report layout variants
– End users may not be SAP savvy or frequent SAP users
– People, especially tradespeople, don’t like system changes!
26. Driving Value from Assets
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Industry Standard Solution for
Plant Maintenance (ISPM®)
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ISPM
• Bottom-line driven approach for optimizing
asset management
– Maximize production throughput
– Minimize health, safety, and environmental
hazards
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Bottom-Line Approach
• IDENTIFY
– “Bad Actor” Equipment causing failure events with the
greatest consequences
• ANALYZE
– High-consequence failure events and failure patterns of
bad-actor equipment causing them
– Obtain details necessary to take corrective action
• RESOLVE
– Implement and prioritize corrective measures
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Design Principals
• SIMPLIFY
– Integrate equipment reliability and work execution processes
– Instill data quality at inception
– Structure data to facilitate accessibility
• STANDARDIZE
– Use methods consistent with industry and international standard processes
– Represent facilities in a logical and standard manner
• One system of record for all technical tags
• One unique ID for each equipment object throughout all systems and records and in the field
– Use standard failure data collection, merging, and assessment processes
• Same look and feel for all malfunction reporting
• AUTOMATE
– Use system-driven data quality-assurance processes
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IDENTIFY High-Consequence Failure Events
The Bottom Line
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ANALYZE Failure details:
Equipment-Level Analysis
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ANALYZE Failure details:
Component-Level Analysis
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ANALYZE Failure details:
Component-Level Analysis
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RESOLVE Bad-Actor Equipment Issues
• Implement corrective measures for bad actor
equipment, e.g.:
– Preventive maintenance
– Inspections
– Procedures
– Facilities changes
• Prioritize corrective measures based on:
– Actual consequences
– Future consequence potential
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Application of ISPM in SAP
• Architecture
– Native to enterprise software
– Built-into work management
processes
• Equipment reliability metrics
– Technical hierarchy
– Malfunction reporting
– PM condition reporting
– Consequence accounting
– Data aggregation
– Data quality management
• If you can’t analyze 1000+ things
at once, you’re not doing it right!
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Equipment Reliability Data Quality
Management
• Infrastructure
– Standard process for technical
hierarchy construction
– Standard process for data collection
– Capture data in a structured format
– Make data quality easy with system-
driven methods
• Quality assurance
– Technical taxonomy checks
– Failure data validations
• Quality control
– Event record reviews
– Feedback to field
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ISO 14224 Technical Structure
– ERP is system of record for all technical tags
– One unique ID for each tag throughout all
systems, records, and in the field
– Equipment interrelationships defined in
system
Equipment Subdivison
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K-102 Boundary Definition
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Use/Location Data
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Malfunction Reporting
Impart Data Quality on Inception
Step Details Responsibility
Work Initiation Problem Report (equipment-level failure
notations), system QA checks
Facility personnel
Approvals and processing Work approval, planning and scheduling, create
statistical records
Operations Superintendent
Execution, repair notes,
and close-out
Repair Report (item-level failure notations),
system QA checks
Maintenance Lead
Technician
Failure data quality control QA/QC, consequence assessment, and
methods feedback
Reliability Engineer
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Malfunction Problem Report (Work Initiation)
Equipment-Level Notations
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Malfunction Repair Report (Work Close-out)
Component-Level Notations
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Approvals and Processing
System Creation of Statistical Record
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Quality Control Processes
• Review malfunction and condition reports to ensure completeness and a clear
and concise description of what happened
• Obtain and input failure consequences, area affected, etc.
• Identify “non-malfunction” malfunction reports and set user status to exclude
them from the failure data dataset
• Review other ERP data to identify missing failure events, e.g. review materials
booked against blanket orders of cost centers, review preventive maintenance
and inspection results to ensure follow-on malfunction reporting was done, etc.
• Identify and document follow-on requirements, e.g. preventive maintenance
additions, facilities change requirements, SJP requirements
• Circle-back with personnel when issues are found with completion of
malfunction reports
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Event Consequence
Assessment
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Data Aggregation
K-102
aggregated
failure data
ISO 14224:2006
taxonomy
K-102
technical
structure
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Preventive Maintenance and Inspections
• Program
– Administered as administrative or
technical tag level
– Results reported at technical tag level
• PM Condition Report
– One condition report per technical tag
inspected
– Inspection verdict and condition details
– Generated from object list of PM
inspection order
• Follow-on malfunction report
– Generated for any equipment malfunction
verdict
– Linked to PM Condition Report as
subordinate object
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Ramesh Vora
Nexen Energy ULC
Ramesh.Vora@nexencnoocltd.com
Tony Ciliberti PE
Reliability Dynamics
tciliberti@rd-eam.com
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Editor's Notes
We will now look at work processing. This slide shows the different steps in the malfunction reporting process, specifically:
Work initiation
Approvals and processing
Execution, repair notes, and close-out
And failure data quality assurance
The ISPM malfunction report is designed to capture equipment failure data in a manner consistent with ISO 14224, Clauses 8 and 9, with Table 6 “Failure data” being shown on the following slide.
Note that different views of the same malfunction report are used for the purpose of relevancy.
As promised, here is Table 6 on the left, required failure data.
Work is initiated via a malfunction problem report, a view for capturing equipment level failure details, as that is typically all you will have when first reporting a problem.
These data include:
Relevant technical tag;
It’s failure mode, failure effect, and condition before malfunction;
Detection method;
Malfunction start date and time;
Text descriptions, priority, etc.
A couple things of note:
Failure modes are equipment class-specific (per Annex B).
The system validates data required at this reporting stage.
Once the repair is completed, you will know component level failure details.
You are able then able to complete the Malfunction Repair Report, to collect:
The primary failure component and its failure mechanism, root cause, and corrective activity;
The malfunction end date; and
Text descriptions, etc.
Once completed, the malfunction report is placed in completed system status.
The system validates required data at close-out.
We will now switch to data aggregation.
ISO 14224 specifies the equipment level, taxonomy level 6, as the common reporting level.
In this example, we need to aggregate all events reported within the boundary of K-102 at the parent equipment level for the purpose of failure metrics.
Note the are 93 component tags with the K-102 boundary.
The system is able to interpret our technical structure and generate statistical records at the equipment level.
Thus we are able to get a complete reliability picture for K-102 (or all compressors) by simply running a standard system report.
Some notes:
Statistical records are a reliability function, transparent to work execution.
Some input is required by the reliability engineer in the QA process, for example:
The effect at the equipment level can be different than at the component level.
Failure mode and condition before failure may be different.