RMC Best Practice Presentation

Installing SAP Plant Maintenance in a

Greenfield Site -Jeff Witt / Owens Corning

Agenda

• OC Solution Overview

• The Goal for Gastonia

• Challenges Faced

• Team

• Project Approach

• Results

• Key Learnings

• Discussion

Disclaimer

• The views expressed in this presentation are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of Owens Corning, LLC. Owens Corning does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this presentation and accepts no responsibility for any consequences of their use. Owens Corning in no way recommends or endorses any particular software, hardware or service mentioned in this presentation.

Introduction – About me

• Jeff Witt

– Project Manager – Global Reliability Systems

– 8 years SAP Plant Maintenance / Materials Management experience

– Recently completed my 80th plant conversion to SAP Plant Maintenance module

– I love SAP! (Please don’t hold it against me.)

Introduction – About OC

Introduction – About Gastonia

OC Solution Overview

• RWP and EM4

• SAP ECC 6.0 EhP 7

• Prometheus

• BI

• Mii

• RF / VendReq / MatReq / Dolphin

Reliability Work Process (RWP)

Enterprise MRO Materials Mgt (EM4)

SAP ECC 6.0

Prometheus

Business Intelligence Dashboard (BI)

Manufacturing Intelligence and Integration (Mii)

MRO Tools (MatReq, VendReq, Dolphin, RF)

Our Goal…

• Gastonia

– Broke ground 12/2013

– Construction started 6/2014

– CMMS project kicked off 4/2015

• Goal: SAP PM/MM fully deployed by start of commissioning phase. 10/1/2015 (6 Months)

Known Challenges

• Lack of plant Resources

• Resource time constraints

• Data from vendors

• Data creation

• New Load Programs (Non ETL)

• Training – Process AND Technical

The Team

• Track Lead

– Off Shore Team

• Program Manager

– Process Project Manager

– MRO Project Manager

• Plant Champion

– PM Key Users

The Approach

• Config

– Baseline PM config

– Planner Groups

The Approach

• Master Data

– Work Centers

– Functional Locations

– Master Equipment List

– Spare Parts

– Equipment Bills of Material

The Approach

• Excluded PM’s

• Cadence

– 4 Test Loads over 5 months

– Final Production Load end of August

The Approach

• Training

– TPM

– Planner

– Work Process (RWP)

– SAP Transactional

Results

• About 2400 Master Data Records Loaded

• Transactional and Process Training completed on time

• 10/1 Deadline was met

Key Learnings

• Start Early!

• Maintenance Deliverables

• Early Access

• More than just Software

• Clear and Consistent Taxonomy

Summary

• What worked….

– MEL and Materials

– Transactional

• Where we struggled…

– Getting it all done in the time required

– Prioritizing

Q & A

• What else can I share with you?

• Anyone have any CMMS deployment takeaways they’d like to share?