Asset Information Management Systems: Critical Success Factors in the Brazilian Electricity Sector

Abstract

AbstractAs the Electricity Sector has a strategic role in the socioeconomic development of a country, shortages have a damaging effect for all consumers and for the company itself. Therefore, companies in the Electricity Sector is considered asset-intensive, as their performance depends on the performance of their assets. This work has as objective to evaluate the critical success factors, promoting good performance on the Asset Information Management Systems in the Brazilian Electricity Sector. To achieve this objective, we defined a model that analyzes the impact of implementing Asset Information Management Systems into organizational performance indicators of companies in the Electric Sector. To validate this model, we simulate connections that were performed through structural equation modeling, based on data obtained directly from professionals from different sectors of Generation, Transmission and Distribution companies in Brazil, in a previously defined form for this research. The relevance of the research is the analysis of the relation between impact and correlation in the Asset Information Management Systems, so that companies in the Electric Sector can prioritize efforts in factors of greater impact. The research is limited to evaluating only the Information within the Management Systems of Assets, with suggestions for future research to evaluate the other elements.