According to VDI 3810:
“Operator responsibility is the legal obligation to ensure the safe operation of a system, a building unit, another source of danger, or an area accessible to the public.”

Operator obligations are defined in a wide range of legal regulations, standards, tenancy law, occupational health and safety regulations, chemicals and hazardous substances legislation, environmental law, and more. In practice, it is hardly possible for individuals to maintain a complete overview of these requirements and, in particular, to identify which regulations are relevant to them.

For this reason, so-called “legal databases” provide structured information relevant to compliance with operator obligations. However, even when using these databases, the key question remains: “Which requirements are relevant for my company?” This is where linking the MEP systems stored in the ERP system becomes helpful, enabling information to be assigned not only at company level but directly and specifically to individual assets. In the next step—if necessary—maintenance cycles in the system are automatically adjusted. Work instructions contained in the database are assigned to the technical asset and made available to the responsible technician, whether internal or external.

The implementation of the above-mentioned process was commissioned by Henkel AG & Co. KGaA to M&P BEGIS GmbH and MAQSIMA GmbH. This seminar presents the corresponding pilot project.