1. Materials Traceability – Enabling the Future
Tanya Doyle, Principal, Gas Technology Strategy – PG&E

2. Agenda PG&E – Company Overview & Mission Case for change
PG&E’s Materials Traceability Approach – Solution Design
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond
The Roadmap
Considerations and Deployment
Questions

3. Who is PG&E? History: Incorporated in 1905
Customer Base: ≈ 15 million customers
Service Area: ≈ 70,000-square-mile
Transmission Miles: ≈ 6,800 DOT classified 1
Distribution Miles: ≈ 42,000
Customers: 4.3 million natural gas accounts

4. Where Are We Headed? Our Mission Our Vision
To safely and reliably deliver affordable and clean energy to our customers and communities every single day, while building the energy network of tomorrow.
Our Vision
With a sustainable energy future as our North Star, we will meet the challenge of climate change while providing affordable energy for all customers.

5. Our Why?
Sept. 9, 2010 – San Bruno, CA. The Disruption Economy Data is power
September 9, 2010 – San Bruno, CA.
Our industry is changing. We have to do more with less, not less with less.
We need better data, faster to support our process needs and empower our people.

6. Building on Success
The Foundation

7. Design Thinking –Continuous Improvement
Innovate
Empathize
Understand
Ideate
Prototype
Test
Think Continuous Improvement
Start with a manageable scope
Engage Users to define “success”
Test in the field
See challenges as an opportunity to improve

8. Where we started Everything was manual
All documents were in paper files
Locating missing documents was difficult and cumbersome

9. Phase I – Critical Materials

10. Phase I - Keys to our initial success
Partner with Supply Chain
Start with a manageable scope – 16” and larger steel & certain critical components
Engage as many users as possible
Minimize customizations except to streamline
Automate as much of batch creation as possible
Labels support stock management & Construction Materials Log
Know that it will not be perfect
Sample Pipe Label

11. Building on Success
Enabling the Future

12. Expansion Approach: Think Lean & Agile
Construction & Mapping
Resources
Transaction Volume
RMLs
Call to Action & Vision
End to End Process with all Stakeholders
Identify and eliminate bottlenecks and waste
What is available to us now
Identify Sprints for agile build, test, and deploy
Partner with other internal efforts
Partner with SAP
Solutions
Challenges
Opportunities
Ariba QM
eWM
Markings on Plastic Pipe
Machine Learning
SAP Block Chain
IoT

13. Incremental Improvement in DesignQM
Enable module for all plants
Resolve bottlenecks and manual tasks
Drive automation and efficiency
Cloud
Expand existing Supplier Portal
Enable upload of BOM
Enable check of materials in field
Enable data access for the field, mapping, and engineering
Enable digital capture of materials data
Enable materials reconciliation
OCR / Machine Learning
Eliminate manual, repetitive document review for SQA
Eliminate manual completion of Materials log
Reconcile materials received to BOM
Reduce manual capture of data in the field
BlockChain
Create traceable verifiable complete document trail for all materials 2” & above
Use technology that can be expanded for broader use

14. Phase 2 - Today into Tomorrow

15. Phase 2 - Roadmap

16. Phase 2 – Roadmap

17. Phase 2 - Roadmap

18. Phase 2 - Roadmap

19. Phase 2 – End of 2018

20. Projected Benefit – Monthly Hours Saved

21. Distribution of Benefits

22. Phase 3 - Tomorrow

23. Phase 3 - A Vision for the Future
Manufacturer
Quality Documents
Receiving
In Stock Maintenance
Materials Log
GPS Location
Warehouse
SQA
Construction
Inspector
Secured Blockchain of data through removal from service
PO Bill of Lading
Quality Inspections
Work Order Assignment
Weld Map
GIS & SAP
Vendor
SQA
Logistics
Construction
Mapping

24. Driving Value through Efficiency
Faster, Better, Complete Data
Real time transparent traceability
Secure and trustworthy data
Elimination of duplication of effort
Reduction of handoffs
Elimination of human error in data entry
Transparency for regulatory and audit responses
Improved data for trending, planning, and risk identification
Time saved through real time access to accurate data
Key Points to Take Home
Distil and convey your experience to conference delegates. Try answering the following questions as you wrap up
Reflecting back on my experience, what have been my greatest insights?
What did I get right?
If I did it all again what would I do differently?
If I was in your shoes and embarking on a similar project, what would I do or not do?

25. Lessons Learned – Initiate through Deploy
Keys to Success
Engage your sponsors & identify a process owner/champion
Take a step back and look end to end first
The best solution may not be expanding the current process
Keep the field engaged – more contact, more often
Use POCs and Phases to generate quick, small wins
Don’t go Big Bang!
Celebrate the small successes to keep folks excited
Key Points to Take Home
Distil and convey your experience to conference delegates. Try answering the following questions as you wrap up
Reflecting back on my experience, what have been my greatest insights?
What did I get right?
If I did it all again what would I do differently?
If I was in your shoes and embarking on a similar project, what would I do or not do?

26. Gas Operations - Technology Strategies and Deployment
Tanya A. Doyle
Gas Operations - Technology Strategies and Deployment
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