Tata Steel, established in 1907, is among the global top ten steel companies with operations in 26 countries and is the second largest steel producer in Europe. Like all heavy industrial sites, Asset Management has to be efficient in terms of output but also in terms of costs. Tata Steel, being no different, is focusing to develop an improved Way of Working across the company.
Whilst already working in IJmuiden, Tata
Steel chose PDM to support their
European operation in designing and
rolling out a Company Asset Management
Framework in 2010. Mainly focusing on
the UK sites and supported by Group
Engineering.
The total project would take more then
three years until beginning 2013.
The approach was based on two main phases:
Aligning the approach across the different plants, the main deliverables per phase had to be the same.
PDM contributed a significant role in the design and roll out of the Company Asset Management Framework of Tata Steel Europe with excellent results.