GIS Integration
Geoworld Magazine

Field employees can view maps on their laptops specific to the area where they're working. Within 5 minutes, workers have pipe location and details, thanks to software that integrates GIS and enterprise resource planning data.

Czech Refining Company Live With Impress for EPM; Ready for Major Shutdown

Impress for EPM will serve as the bridge between SAP's Plant Maintenance (PM) and Project Systems (PS) modules and Primavera P3e for shutdown and routine maintenance initiatives at the Czech Refining Company.

A Successful Shutdown at BP

BP, the the world's second largest oil producer, has efficiently completed a six week, $72 million shutdown of its Lingen refinery on-time and on- budget.

Using Impress for EPM, BP integrated SAP PM and Primavera to manage the first complete shutdown of the Lingen facility in 50 years. The shutdown of the facility, which produces 4 million tons of crude oil per year and stretches over 383 acres, involved the servicing of more than 1,600 pieces of equipment over the course of 800,000 man hours.

The integrated system enabled BP Lingen to:

• Reduce bridge financing and process immediate payment of contractors
• Respond to and schedule unplanned work
• Expect a 66% reduction in planning time and cost for future turnarounds

Accessing Stored Synchronization Run Results

With Impress for EPM versions 3.0 and above, all synchronization logs are stored in the Impress repository. As the months go by, a lot of data can build up in the tables. You may not be interested in going back to view the results of older synchronization runs.

There is a way to remove synchronization logs from the system, and this can be setup as a regularly scheduled job using an I.Map that is designed to delete synchronization logs based upon how old they are.

Steps to Setup the Job

• Open the Impress Admin Workbench and connect to the Impress instance where you would like the job setup.
  
• Select 'Scheduler' from the System Menu and choose the 'List of Job Definitions' tab.
  
• Press the add button to startup the scheduling wizard. Choose 'Job Definition' for type and press next.
  
• Enter a name, for example: 'Delete old synchronization logs' and description, for example: 'Delete successful synchronization logs that are older than 120 days.'
  
• Define a recurrence pattern, for example: weekly on Mondays until 9/7/2008.
  
• Specify the time of day for the recurrence schedule and press next
  
• Make the host selections and press next
  
• On the function tab for 'Function to Exectue' type in:
  ieIafDeleteOutdatedSynchRunLogs (note that this is case sensitive) then press the 'Load Meta Data' button
  
• When the lines appear below, click into the Value next to 'AgeInDays' and replace the 0 with an integer representing the age in days of the synchlogs you would like to delete. In this example it would be 120. Press next, then finish.
  

• Open the Impress Admin Workbench and connect. Select the Utilities, Event Monitor option from the menu.
  
  
• Adjust the dates shown in the 'Display Period from' and 'Display Period to' so that it includes the date and time for the scheduled job, and press 'display'. (Make sure that the 'only failed jobs' option is NOT selected)
  
  
• Select your job from the list that appears by clicking on it. Information about the job such as the date and time that it started and finished, the state, the resulting return code appears on the right.
  
  
• Click into the 'available' link under 'Output I.Container' and drill down under the deletedlogs tree to see details about the synchronization logs that were deleted.