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SPEAKER

Ramesh Vora, SAP Staff Specialist Work Processes, Nexen Energy ULC

Ramesh Vora is a licensed professional engineer in Alberta, Canada with 20 years’ experience in oil and gas, refining, and petrochemicals Industries. He is a Senior SAP PM Business Analyst at Nexen Energy’s Long Lake SAGD Oil Sands facility in Fort McMurray, Alberta. His current responsibilities include CMMS and business process improvements, SAP configuration, business analysis, master data governance and end user coaching and training.

Ramesh has served three years on the Board of Directors for the PEMAC Fort McMurray Chapter; two years as secretary and one year as an Executive Board member. He holds certification by PEMAC as a Maintenance Management Professional.

CO-SPEAKER

Tony Ciliberti, Principal Engineer, Reliability Dynamics

Tony Ciliberti PE is the Principal Engineer for Reliability Dynamics LLC, an engineering and technology company specializing in application of ISO 14224 methods in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. He is a licensed chemical engineer with 29 years’ experience as a maintenance and reliability engineer in petrochemical, oil and gas, and public utilities sectors. His experience includes four years with SAP Americas’ National Consulting Practice as a Principal Consultant/Solution Architect for large corporate M&R/EAM implementations.

Ciliberti represents the United States as an ANSI-appointed expert member in the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 67, Work Group 4 “Reliability Engineering and Technology,” Project Group 1 ISO 14224 “Collection and exchange of reliability and maintenance data for equipment,” and Project Group 2, ISO 20815 “Production Assurance and Reliability Management.” He participates in the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), Process Equipment Reliability Database (PERD) Project, as the PERD ERP Subcommittee Chair.

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SESSION

Enabling Corporate Failure Metrics at Nexen Energy with ISO 14224
Track: Accuracy
Ramesh Vora, SAP Staff Specialist Work ProcessesNexen Energy ULC
Tony Ciliberti, Principal Engineer, Reliability Dynamics LLC

This presentation describes Nexen Energy’s pathway in using international standard ISO 14224 methods to enable better decision-making for equipment assets. The pathway began in 2006 with the implementation of ISO 14224 coding for failure notations and has evolved into an ISO 14224-compliant taxonomy and failure reporting process. Ramesh Vora, from the Nexen Long Lake facility, will describe the process of implementing an ISO 14224 taxonomy structure, key learnings, and business benefits derived from those changes.

While the ISO 14224 failure coding process helped standardize field input, data issues remained that precluded meaningful corporate failure metrics.

Additionally, users complained about inconsistent equipment data in disparate data repositories, difficulty in navigating the SAP functional location structure, excessively long tag numbers, and inconsistent structuring rationale.

To address these issues, Nexen made the following changes:
1. Made SAP the source of record for most technical tags
2. Implemented an ISO 14224 compliant technical taxonomy structuring methodology for Canadian Assets
3. Added taxonomic level validations to the malfunction report form