Oracle's Business Intelligence Foundation Suite (Analytics Applications) are designed for the manufacturing sector and Enterprise asset management (EAM)

Oracle has announced two new analytic applications at Oracle OpenWorld Tokyo.

The new applications, which are both based on Oracle's Business Intelligence Foundation Suite, are designed for the manufacturing sector, and for enterprise asset management (EAM), and are the first in-memory analytic applications for that sector.

Oracle Manufacturing Analytics is intended to help operations managers, manufacturing analysts, manufacturing and supply chain executives and production cost accountants to have a better view into manufacturing processes, inventory and product quality, to enable them to reduce production costs, improve product quality, minimize inventory levels and respond faster to customer demands.

Oracle Enterprise Asset Management Analytics has been designed to give more effective management and analysis of assets, in areas such as projecting expected asset life, planning strategies to reduce maintenance costs and increase uptime

Failure Analysis in Oracle eAM

Failure Analysis enables maintenance users to track an asset failure from the time it is reported until its resolution. Statistics from their collected failure data provide them with information on why an event occurs and causes asset failure. They can then take the necessary steps to eliminate that event. Additionally, they can use the failure statistics, among others, to help them formulate their Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) program. 

Failure hierarchies that support multiple-level failure reporting provide effective root cause and reliability analysis. For specific Asset Groups, each failure (problem) has a defined number of root causes, with each root cause having a defined number of resolutions (remedies). 

1. First step is to define Failure Codes. There are three main Failure Code Types:

1. Failure Code
2. Cause Code and
3. Resolution Code

2. Second step is to define Failure sets. In failure sets user-defined Failure codes, Cause codes and

Enhanced features in R12.1 (+) series at Oracle EAM

This blog will throw light on the important features that exist in Enterprise Asset Management module in Oracle EBS R12.1
Enhanced features in R12.1 (+) series-

• Express Work : It's an integrated way of finishing the emergency work quickly with all the details like labor, charge time, material issued entered in single page.
• Microsoft Project Integration : This will help in integrating the Microsoft project with eAM which in turn used in Work order scheduling in effective manner.
• Google Maps integration : Apart from maintaining an asset, it's becoming important to track them. eAM has come up with solution of integrating the assets with the web-based Google maps. During asset creation or after we need to provide some geo information such as Longitude, Latitude, and Direction for the Assets to locate.
• Construction units : This feature is provided under the Maintenance Super User responsibility in OAF. The activities carried out on repetitive jobs like commissioning of Towers, Electric Lines, Power plant construction etc., can be effectively estimated and planned using Construction units.
• Primavera Integration : One of the products in market dealing with Project management. Integration of Primavera and eAM will help in scheduling eAM work orders for Project based activities.
• Encumbrance : Long living feature with purchasing modules has been introduced in eAM for Acconting encumbrance with eAM Purchase orders/ Purchase requisitions.
• Work Permits : Creating only work order without information about operations, manitenance and safety precautions are of no use. eAM has come up with feature called Work permit where we need to take permission before taking up any work along with above details.