Success story
London-Gatwick – ADP Project
- Update and streamline data that had lost reliability due to legacy systems and improve strategic planning.
- Implement the scalable, modern, and configurable IFS Ultimo solution to efficiently manage assets.
- Replace the old DMS (Document Management System) solution with a new one and integrate it with the IFS Ultimo EAM system.
- Trace the complete life cycle of assets: from acquisition, commissioning, maintenance, and decommissioning, to replacement.
- Facilitate collaboration between construction and engineering.
- Achieve greater reliability in preventive maintenance.
- Ensure correct implementation so that all requirements were met and all business processes were mapped.
- Implement an EAM solution that should not only be suitable for its purpose but also represent a significant improvement for the business.
- Integrate the adoption of IFS Ultimo with a large-scale project, ADP, which consisted of managing the airport's asset base throughout its entire life cycle.
- Overcome resistance to change and encourage the adoption of the new system.
- Carry out the installation without considerable interruptions to daily operations.
- Solution that covers the entire life cycle of assets, from commissioning to replacement.
- Successful implementation thanks to the active participation of professionals from operational levels to senior management, as well as in the field of engineering and construction.
- Creation of a website with an open forum to promote the ADP project, where meetings, conferences, and informal sessions were organized.
- IFS Ultimo established as a business partner of the project, with trained consultants and business commitment.
Although it became an aerodrome in the 1930s, London-Gatwick Airport as we know it today was officially opened on June 9, 1958. Over the past 60 years, it has grown from just 186,000 passengers to more than 40 million, establishing itself as one of the main places of passage between passengers leaving their homes and others landing in a new place.
An infrastructure of this magnitude has countless assets that must be reliable to help both airlines and their users reach their destination without setbacks. This is where an enterprise asset management (EAM) system like IFS Ultimo demonstrates its value.
Asset Data Platform
Gatwick launched the ADP project as a platform for managing the asset base of its facilities throughout its entire life cycle. At that time, they had a very outdated EAM solution, which required continuing to maintain outdated hardware, and which had limited support. The same was true of the document management system (DMS). An attempt was made to integrate both tools to improve their operation, without success: the asset data became contaminated in both systems due to duplicate entries and unreliable records.
IFS Ultimo to Manage and Maintain Million-Dollar Assets
The implementation of IFS Ultimo served to clean up the asset database and, over time, improve its life cycles, as the ADP project sought. Its adoption has allowed the airport to manage its assets completely, from efficiency, improving the traceability and quality of data throughout the cycle and strengthening collaboration between all teams.
