User day Germany
On November 11 and 12 2009 the Userday Germany took place. Users explained the work they had done with LCC-AM/QM and how the software was implemented in their organization. In Germany LCC AM/QM is used to analyse maintenance e.g. over life span and the investment planning according to it.

 In Germany the users requested an extra function to prioritise investments and to have a budget (different options) to rearrange these investments. S&G will support this demand.

We announced the delivery of a SAP-PM module, in which data can be retrieved directly from the SAP tables.

Other new modules S&G will create are:

• A cockpit function;

• Critical spare parts over remaining life cycle;

• Delta maintenance, to analyse not only on assets, but on total systems;

• A Geo function using Google. Currently we use Mapinfo;

• An integration with System dynamics.

S&G into art
S&G has sponsered the making of a bronze statue of the famous Dutch artist, Albert Mol by sculptor Wim Kuijl, Albert Mol was a well known actor, author and television personality. The statue is now on view in Giethoorn. Wim Kuijl has made also other statues of famous artists, such as the famous Dutch writer Simon Carmiggelt and his wife Tini (De Steeg).

Maintenance and outsourcing
S&G and partners was an exhibitor at the Maintenance and outsourcing seminar in Rotterdam. At this seminar, S&G has been showing how LCC AM/QM and the quantitative maintenance analyses in particular could be applied for transparent and useful Public Private Services contracts and how these contracts could be monitored. An essential part of this function is to find the non or contra-effective maintenance.
 

                    

S&G and Rolsch consultancy solved the problem of inadequate water supply
S&G Today’s water utilities are compared due to the time and amount of people who have suffered from failures/leakages. If there are leakages, a section of pipes has to be closed, using valves. As a result the whole section suffers from the leakage. S&G has developed an algorithm to determine these sections, to attach the leakage to the pipes and to calculate the number and the CLM: Customer Minutes Lost per connection/customer per year.

KPMG-Advisory partnership strategic asset management for Europe
S&G has agreed to a joint venture with KPMG-Advisory for the area of the EEC to use the S&G-software for their advisory businesses. Today KPMG has been very successful in Belgium in the utilities segment. We expect to add to our customers more than 80% of the Belgium gas and electricity utilities at the end of the year. KPMG will also use our software for water utilities, real estate, telecom and railroad infrastructure.

Interesting job for contractor Dutch railroad
S&G just has finished an interesting assignment for Strukton, which is an important contractor for the Dutch railroad. The Dutch Railroad (Prorail) today uses PPS-contracts, in which the contractor has much more responsibility for the performance and can decide, within limits, which maintenance or maintenance program is appropriate. On the other side, the contractor has to pay for failures that lead to interruption of the railroad traffic.

New developments LCC-Lite
In the new LCC-Lite version , which has been released in November 2008 the following improvements have been realized:
The project table has been replaced by a more modern viewer in which we can find and store our project.
There is a library of cases and definition of assets in which we can select.
Windows Vista is not upward compatible, so a new database engine for LCC-Lite is necessary.

New developments in LCC-AM/QM
Improved mutations reporting: an enhanced reporting facility has been made in which we can show al mutations on an asset.
Storing variables from utilities: the utilities enable you to change, add or replace data. In the next release you will be able to store the variables and settings the way you can store reports or analyses/charts.
Improved performance: we are making an effort to further improve the performance for large databases.
Redesigned report module: we will use a different report tool: then a “print” record in the window can be viewed directly in the database by a simple “click”.