ISO 14224 / API RP 14C standards programme on IBM Maximo for an oil & gas operator
A North Sea oil & gas operator needed its Maximo data to actually answer the questions reliability and HSE engineers ask, against the same standards regulators and partners use. We delivered the standard inside Maximo, not next to it.
Sector
Oil & gas (upstream / offshore)
Region
United Kingdom (UKCS)
Duration
12 months programme + ongoing run-and-improve
Scope
Standards model, master data, integration, reliability analytics
Versions
IBM Maximo on DB2
The challenge
After a series of mergers the operator had three different ways of describing the same pump and four different failure-mode lists. Reliability engineers could not benchmark MTBF across assets without manual cleanup, and safety-critical-element (SCE) performance reporting was being assembled in spreadsheets every quarter.
Regulators, partners and the operator's own corporate reliability function were all asking for ISO 14224-aligned failure data. The board wanted defensible API RP 14C SCE evidence on demand, not assembled in panic before an audit. None of this was going to come from a tool change. It needed a standards model built into Maximo itself.
Architecture (anonymised)
What MaxIron delivered
- ISO 14224 taxonomy in Maximo: asset class, equipment unit, sub-unit and maintainable item hierarchy aligned to ISO 14224, with failure mode and failure mechanism reference data loaded as managed lists.
- API RP 14C SCE flagging: safety-critical elements identified and tagged in Maximo with associated performance standards, verification activities, deferral rules and corrective action workflow.
- ISO 15926-aligned handover: data templates for new-build / brownfield handover so EPC contractors deliver Maximo-ready data instead of dumping spreadsheets into the operator.
- Master data remediation: duplicate equipment merged, criticality re-baselined, location hierarchy normalised, work history mapped onto the standardised model.
- Reliability analytics layer: clean MTBF, MTTR and bad-actor reporting straight out of Maximo data, with a small downstream analytics layer rather than a parallel database.
- Governance and change control: a data governance forum, a Maximo standards owner role, and a controlled change process so the standard does not erode in the first 12 months.
Integrations
| System | Direction | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| SAP PM / Finance | bi-directional | cost objects, spares, PO/invoice flow |
| Reliability analytics | outbound | MTBF, MTTR, bad-actor analysis |
| EPC handover packs | inbound (one-off / per project) | ISO 15926 templated data exchange |
| HSE incident system | inbound | link incident records to assets and SCEs |
Outcomes
- One taxonomy — three legacy classification schemes consolidated to a single ISO 14224 model across the operated estate.
- SCE evidence on demand — API RP 14C performance reporting produced from Maximo, not spreadsheets; defensible to regulator and partners.
- Cleaner reliability data: MTBF and MTTR comparable across assets and platforms for the first time.
- Faster, cheaper handover from EPC contractors using the agreed data templates.
- Standards owner role and governance forum live; the model is being maintained, not allowed to drift.
Long-term support
MaxIron remains as standards and reliability advisor on a retained basis: standards reviews on each major project, audit support, and continuous-improvement work as the operator brings additional fields and brownfield assets into the model.
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