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Spare part inventories can be very high when poor inventory systems are used. On the other hand the costs associated to not having a spare part when needed can be significant. A good balance between holding costs associated to having parts and consequence costs associated to stock outs is therefore needed. This balance is especially important for slow moving items. Inventory systems often contain methodologies to achieve the optimum inventory based on historical consumption information. For projects aiming at the construction of new plants this information is not available.
SPICA, 'Spare Part Interchangeability Analyzer' Tool is developed to collect the spare parts information in a standard format, which would be entered by the service provider. SPICA shows the relation between Equipment and Spare parts and the interchangeability between Spare parts in equipment & across Various Equipment installed. SPICA assists in reviewing and selecting spare parts for new installations. SPICA makes use of data submitted by suppliers, completed with available information from the project/company.
Later the procurement cell review & analyze the listed spare parts comparing with the Spare Parts master for availability, When sufficient stock is found available for Spare, then that spare will not be tagged as quantity available. And finally the spare list that is not available will be moved to Spares master and the spare list available without required quantity will be moved to procurement cell for ordering of the spare parts. The complete list will be moved to Inventory to build Equipment BOM. Thus, SPICA contains information of equipment, equipment spare parts and supplies, which are relevant for sustained safe, reliable and efficient operations. The owner/operator of the equipment will use that information in as-built document repositories, in materials lists for maintenance jobs, to determine spare part stocking levels, and for spare part procurement specifications.
Right time to optimize the spares and eliminate the duplicate Material Code Creation and Stocking; and to create precise buying description for future Ordering is essentially for any new plant which SPICA address efficiently.
Definition of Plants, Projects, Tags Classification of Equipment & Spares criticality Definition of Vendors & Manufacturers Definition of Equipment & Spares
Configure the workflow hierarchy Map the users at respective workflow levels Configure the EPC users Upload the Equipment & Spares data Data entry of Equipment & Spares data
Spares data validation Auto linkage if interchangeable Spares Complete BOM data
Multiple Projects & multiple EPC’s
Web architected – Inputs for SPIR entered directly over the web
Alternate offline entry – with excel upload facility
Facility to upload Equipment & Spares
On-line QA/QC + Feedback after QA/QC + approval
Intuitive Work tray to track progress
An user friendly tool for Engineering Procurement Construction users
Links with the EPC team and the Engineering & Procurement Division
Fast search engine to search on multiple filter criteria
Auto?identification of Interchangeable Spares
Maintain Asset BOM
Maintain Interchangeability Information
SPICA data helps in Procurement of Initial Spare Parts
Associate the relevant information for Material Coding and Cataloguing
Stands as an Input to MM and PM modules of ERP