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Oceaneering now tracks its subsea equipment fleet in Oracle Cloud

With EquipRite, each piece of equipment is followed from the first request until it is disbanded, across the company’s global business units.

Result

The whole fleet can be seen in one place

Oceaneering runs one of the world’s most complex subsea equipment fleets. Its business units around the world now share a single view of that equipment inside Oracle Cloud.

What the fleet includes
  • ROVs
  • Diving systems
  • Specialized tooling
Client
Oceaneering
Fleet
ROVs, diving systems and specialized tooling
Platform
Oracle Cloud Projects
Delivered by Rite
EquipRite, integrated with Oracle PPM, Inventory and Fixed Assets
Rite application usedEquipRite
Challenge

Where things stood before

  • Scattered fleet data

    Equipment sat in parent and child structures spread over several global business units.

  • No end-to-end tracking

    No system followed a piece of equipment from request through to demobilization.

  • Manual costing

    Costs were worked out by hand and were not linked to depreciation, maintenance or how the equipment was being used.

  • No audit trail

    Inspections and quality checks were done outside the ERP, so nothing was recorded there.

Solution

How EquipRite is used

EquipRite is Rite’s equipment lifecycle application for Oracle Cloud Projects. Oceaneering uses it to see where equipment is, what it costs and whether it has been inspected.

  • Live availability by location

    Each business unit can see what equipment is available, where it is and what state it is in.

  • Costing that follows usage

    Costs are calculated automatically, depending on whether equipment is working, idle or in maintenance.

  • Inspections recorded in the system

    Check-out and check-in inspections are done digitally, with quality parameters and photos.

How it connects to Oracle

EquipRite tracks
  • Requests through to disbandment
  • Parent and child assets
  • Location and availability
  • Costing by equipment state
  • Check-out and check-in inspections
In one application
EquipRite
Equipment lifecycle management, live across global business units
Integrated directly with
  • Oracle PPM
  • Oracle Inventory
  • Oracle Fixed Assets
Impact

The impact at Oceaneering

  • A complete view of the fleet

    Every asset can be seen from start to finish, from parent ROVs down to their child components. Business units no longer work from separate pictures of the fleet.

  • Decisions based on live data

    Teams work from current status and location data, which has replaced manual spreadsheets.

  • Inspections ready for audit

    Inspection records include photos and are linked directly to Oracle ERP, so there is now an audit trail.

What’s next

Oceaneering is evaluating two more Rite applications

  • Under evaluation

    ProcureRite

    Brings project-based procurement planning, execution and expediting into one screen. It uses the same Oracle PPM and Inventory integration approach as EquipRite.

  • Under evaluation

    RiteSync

    Extracts data from Oracle SaaS and syncs it to any data warehouse, so every business unit reports from the same reconciled data.

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