About VAPCO

Vung Ang II Thermal Power Plant (VAPCO) is a large-scale BOT power project in Ha Tinh, Vietnam, with a total capacity of over 1,300MW.

As one of Vietnam’s most advanced ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plants, VAPCO is designed to deliver high efficiency, operational reliability, and long-term energy security for the national grid.

To support this vision, VAPCO required a modern, scalable digital platform to manage complex asset operations from day one.

Challenges

Operating a new-generation power plant comes with significant complexity:

✓ Managing a large volume of critical assets across boiler, turbine, coal handling, and environmental systems
✓ Integrating data from multiple OT systems (DCS, vibration monitoring, lab systems)
✓ Ensuring seamless coordination between operations, maintenance, inventory, and finance
✓ Enforcing strict safety and compliance workflows (PTW, LOTO)
✓ Building a future-ready foundation for predictive maintenance and AI-driven optimization

Impact

✓ 50,000+ assets managed on a single unified platform
✓ First IBM Maximo Application Suite 9.x deployment in Vietnam’s power sector
✓ Fully operational before commercial operation (COD)
✓ Future-ready for AI-driven APM and predictive maintenance

Solution

Avenue implemented IBM Maximo Application Suite 9 (MAS 9) as the core Enterprise Asset Management platform.

Key capabilities include:

- Centralized asset hierarchy and lifecycle management
- Maintenance management:
→ Work requests & preventive maintenance
→ Outage planning
→ PTW & LOTO workflows
- Integrated inventory & procurement management
- Financial integration with SunSystems
- Mobile-ready platform with future integration capability
- Foundation for AI-driven APM and predictive analytics