Uddevalla Energi

Several plants and facilities

Uddevalla Energi supplies Uddevalla with electricity and district heating. Reliability is key to fulfilling that mission, and good reliability demands a lot of the maintenance department.

– We have five power plants, one of them a CHP plant, and a pellet factory. We have about 2,000 planned maintenance activities, and the number is constantly increasing. The objective of our maintenance department is to secure availability at our plants and keep them running, so that we can secure deliveries to our customers.

Preventive maintenance

To meet the demands on maintenance, it is important to carry out preventive maintenance, and a maintenance system makes that easier. All activities are time-based and planned according to OEM requirements.

When the maintenance department receives a work request, they plan, carry out and close the work order in Idus. If something in a request is unclear, they can always contact the person who submitted it, since it’s traceable in Idus.

– Another important aspect of preventive maintenance is the availability of parts and materials. Knowing whether a part is in stock or needs to be ordered is vital for planned maintenance. Idus gives us the prerequisites to actively improve our storeroom routines.

Reports and improvements

– We continuously run reports in Idus so that we can analyze and improve our maintenance procedures. Guided by Idus, we can see where our plants need to improve to increase reliability. The reports show which equipment requires the most maintenance, and from that we can initiate more preventive maintenance, or modify or build other solutions that increase availability.

“Idus is a dynamic tool for me that really improves my everyday work.”

Fredrik Bottenmark, System Engineer, Uddevalla Energi