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SAP Linear Asset Management: March 2012
SAP Linear Asset Management: March 2012
March 2012
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Every organization with linear assets must be able to answer these questions
1. What do I have?
2. Where is it?
3. What condition is it in?
4. What O&M and capital investment required?
5. What is the value of the asset?
In Asset Intensive Industries like Oil & Gas, Railways, Utilities and Public Sector the
utilization of traditional hierarchical structure of assets to represent their production
or infrastructure networks is a complex and difficult process.
Technical
Asset
Document Master Data
Engineering Asset
Management
Performance
Management
Management Management
Maintenance
Work Preventive and Demand Service Refurbish- Consumption-
Shutdown Sub-
Maintenance Management
Planning and Clearance Corrective
contracting
Planning and Delivery ment Driven
Scheduling Management Maintenance Creation Confirmation Processing Planning
Order Invoice
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Distance From Start Marker Offset from Start Marker Distance Value in UOM
Distance From End Marker Offset from End Marker Distance Value in UOM
4,62m
0,80 km
4,75m
2,15m
4,60 km
Markers e.g. Mileposts or Well Known Locations are usually distributed uniformly
along the Linear Asset to represent homogeneous distance segments (in some
exceptional cases some markers have different lengths). The markers are
indicated in the same unit of measure used to define the Linear Asset element
(Miles, Kilometers, Meters, etc.). The basic information that a marker has is its
name (identification), the absolute position from the starting point of the linear
asset element, and its length.
It will be possible to derive the absolute values of the location by using the Marker
and offset (if required), say for example when planning a work order.
Linear
Asset
10 Miles
Use of Linear Asset Management (LAM) can reduce master data by 30%
• Reduction in migration efforts and ongoing administration efforts
Contact information:
Horst Hönig
PLM/EAM Solution Management
M +27 83 304 6992
E horst.honig@sap.com
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