S1150 Maximo Plant Upgrade

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Project Background & Rationale: In 1997, NIE Networks introduced Maximo Plant v3.1 as our enterprise asset management solution for substation plan and assets, which during the years has undergone a number of upgrades to bring it to its current version of 6.2.8, which is no longer in mainstream support. A separate Maximo instance, Maximo Lines, has been implemented to manage our Overhead Line infrastructure. This instance, which has been developed in Maximo v 7.5, has recently gone live, but will remain separate (in the short term) from Maximo Plant. Alongside the core Maximo Plant solution, NIE Networks have deployed Syclo Mobile Work Manager (SMWM) as our mobile field solution, allowing engineers to capture and view information directly on mobile device, thus resulting in improved information capture and reduced clerical costs. NIE Networks are undertaking this project for a number of reasons, and to assist vendors in their proposal, NIE Networks have outlined some of the key objectives of this project: • The current NIE Networks Maximo Plant version is now out of product support by IBM. In addition, the application is hosted on a Windows 2003 platform, which is no longer supported by Microsoft. • To take benefits in technology gains, since the previous implementation of Maximo Plant and Sylco (e.g. improved user interfaces, improved mobile technology); • Where possible, to decrease any customisation within the NIE Networks solution and (and without loss of functionality) replace this with standard product configuration, and Time-scales for vendor selection and project delivery are very aggressive, with the objective of completing full implementation by Q4 of 2017.