Port Taranaki improves maintenance practices with Maximo

Port Taranaki is the only deep water port on the west coast of New Zealand, and is owned by the Taranaki Regional Council. The port handles a wide range of coastal and international cargoes, mostly relating to the farming, engineering and petrochemical industries.

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The Challenge

Initially, the port was looking to migrate its marine division away from its legacy system but the company soon realised it could improve maintenance practices across its land-based assets as well.

"The original driver was to replace the ageing DOS-based system managing our floating plant. But once we looked at how assets were managed in other areas of the company, we decided to replace the paper-based management system we were using for our land-based assets, and move our entire preventive maintenance structure towards a much more proactive regime."

The Solution

"We wanted to find the most appropriate solution based on a cost and requirements analysis. We shortlisted a number of solutions, but chose Maximo and Certus because we got a good level of comfort about the breadth of the system’s functionality, and we knew Certus had the skills and experience to implement it."

The Benefits

Maximo has helped bring together all the necessary actions involved in undertaking maintenance.

"Preventive maintenance is working smoothly because we now have good inventory and purchasing integration... The guys on vessels can manage work knowing they have the necessary parts — it's all dealt with for them."

 Read this case study on Certus' Maximo work at Port Taranaki.