Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority

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Mustafa Aziz from the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority discusses how IBM Maximo software enabled his organization to build a smarter power and water distribution system.

My name is Mustafa Aziz. I'm representing Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority.

Abu Dhabi has seen a lot of growth in the past few years. Our power and water demand has increased about 7.5 percent year on year for the past several years. And we have projecting the same demand in the next coming years. ADWEA is embarking on a concept called Smart Utility which will seek integration of technology into the power generation and distribution and transmission site so we make sure that we efficiently dispatch the power and fulfill the needs of our customers.

The organization has changed in the last ten years, it's changed its priorities, and Maximo has gone along and played a pivotal role.

Maximo 7 is based on a very state-of-the-art technology and it provides us with a platform where we can do integrate other systems through a service-oriented architecture framework. The integrations are very easy and the data information exchange is going to be very easy.

We have gone out into various different business units which are traditionally non-Maximo oriented. The foremost is the health and safety and quality groups within the company and we are rolling out Maximo Oil and Gas version in a utility for incident management, incident tracking and management of change processes. We have used Maximo for Utilities Vertical and we have rolled out the CUE functionality in that area of the business.

The biggest benefits is documentation and taking, documentation of information and we have really used Maximo very well to optimize our field workforce manpower utilization and also reduce our annual maintenance plan. The annual maintenance plan has been reduced around 40 percent.

Maximo has played a big role, Maximo is one of the—is the biggest system which touches a lot of users in Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority Maximo is one system where a very big population of people use it every day.

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