Cohesive Delivers Reliable EAM for Lesotho Highlands Development Authority
Africa’s largest water transfer scheme overcomes network instability and maintains asset availability in remote conditions with data replication.
The Challenge
Ensuring asset integrity and uninterrupted supply in Africa’s largest water transfer system is critically important.
Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) manages vast infrastructure in remote mountainous areas, at elevations of at least 1,730m above sea level (ASL), where minimum temperatures dip below 0°C for nearly 100 days a year.
Further complicating matters, unreliable communication networks frequently disconnect remote sites from one another and from the LHDA head office in Maseru.
- 760 million m^3/year from the Katse and Mohale Dams are delivered through a series of tunnels and the Muela transfer dam to South Africa’s industrial heartland.
- 474.6 GWh are generated annually (51% of Lesotho’s electricity) at the Muela hydroelectric power station.
- EAM solution manages civil, water and electricity infrastructure assets across remote sites at Muela, Katse, and Mohale.
Our Solution
LHDA selected Cohesive to implement IBM Maximo across all sites, also integrating it with their centralized financial system for additional visibility and reporting.
To address the challenge of unstable communication, Cohesive devised a solution to provide Katse, Mohale, and Muela with full functionality for asset, work, inventory, and procurement management.
The Results
Cohesive’s approach enabled LHDA to realize the benefits of Maximo for maintenance and procurement efficiency, even when disconnected from the central server in Maseru, including:
- Centralized reporting through data replication
- Integrated, documented, applied, and embedded financial processes
- Optimized financial reporting
- Elimination of paper-based requisitioning
- Improved Inventory reports and KPIs
- Enhanced material and spare parts management and planning
- Requisitions and receipts managed within Maximo and integrated with the financial system
