Babcock make first appearance at Hillhead show
Engineering support services company exhibit at Hillhead for the first time
This year Babcock International Group are exhibiting at Hillhead for the first time. The engineering support services company has recently established itself in the mining and construction sector.
In July 2011, Lafarge signed a 10-year contract with Babcock to take on the management of their UK fleet – more than 400 assets across 70 aggregate and cement sites. This was followed in early 2012 by a second 10-year contract to manage Lafarge’s heavy mobile equipment across more than 200 sites in North America.
Babcock are helping Lafarge to reduce costs and increase output at each of their sites, by transforming the way they manage a complex fleet of mobile equipment. Babcock know the assets can only deliver optimum performance if their maintenance, availability and procurement are underpinned by a specialist approach to asset management.
Babcock have taken a unique approach to asset management, providing critical visibility over national and international fleets, as well as delivering services over the whole lifecycle of an asset, from procurement through to disposal.
This approach is centred on ALCAMiE (Asset Life Cycle Availability Management in Engineering). This is Babcock’s proven delivery model. It is designed to meet key customer drivers and deliver a range of outputs that enable transformation in how assets are managed. ALCAMIE provides four core services:
- Web-based fleet reporting - At the core of ALCAMiE is a system of web-based reporting that provides organizations with the granular information they need, to make the right strategic and operational decisions about their fleet.
- Core asset management - Babcock manage detailed customer equipment-based information about each asset including equipment criticality, warranty information, service intervals, usage hours and planned availability. This data supports the decisions that ensure Babcock get maximum performance at lowest whole-life cost.
- Managed service centres - Babcock implement a single integrated process within a dedicated managed service centre. This means they can see a job through from the initial call, managing suppliers, keeping the customer informed, to formally closing the job once completed - inputting data into the core asset management system throughout the process. This means they are able to quickly prioritize jobs according to their criticality, because they have sufficient data about each asset to understand the impact of their downtime.
- Customer accounting function - Babcock’s unique combination of fleet reporting, core asset management and a managed service centre enables them to play the entire programme back to customers, allowing them to make quick and accurate strategic decisions, saving time and money. It also allows Babcock to use monthly reviews to flag upcoming issues to ensure they have minimal impact on commercial operations.
Through ALCAMiE customers can benefit from increased asset availability, savings of around 10-15%, reduced costs and processing, and transference of risk.
Babcock’s expertise is based on years of experience working with companies that have similarly complex and technical portfolios of equipment. This includes flagship global airlines, the defence sector, the emergency services, and public sector organisations – all of whom trust Babcock to manage their ownership and operation of more than $42 billion worth of vehicles and equipment.
