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Intelligent plant lifecycle management from IBM
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| Information is power
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In the lifecycle of your plant operations, whether building or modifying an existing plant, information is one of your most valuable assets. Access to valid and up-to-date information and data can help reduce the initial investment for new plants and help modernize existing plants. The intelligent plant lifecycle management solution from IBM can help integrate data across your plant to improve operations, financial reporting, training and compliance.
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| IBM is amped up about energy and utilities
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With more than 3,000 energy and utilities industry consultants and 30 years of services and solutions designed for energy and utilities, IBM's commitment to the industry is hardwired. In fact, our work within the industry has won us praise from outside experts, including:
- IBM was cited as a Leader in Work and Asset Management for both the power generation and energy delivery industries in the 2007 Energy Insights report.
- Gartner Inc. has positioned IBM Global Business Services in the Leaders Quadrant of their 2007 CRM Service Providers report.
We continue to provide new and innovative solutions through the establishment of industry development and demonstration facilities, including:
- Energy Competency Centers in Austin, Dallas, Tokyo, Beijing and Delhi.
- The Global Center of Excellence for Nuclear Power in La Gaude, France.
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| Synchronize data across your plant for more intelligent operations
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During the lifecycle of a plant you must manage a variety of content including drawings, procedures, vendor-supplied information, equipment history files, design changes and more. You need an easy and effective way to manage and access data throughout your plant’s lifetime, and to make sure that plant employees always have access to up-to-date, valid information. The intelligent plant lifecycle management solution from IBM helps you manage your new or existing plant smartly by leveraging your existing data.
Integrate, standardize and use design, and build data throughout the entire design, build, operate and maintain cycle to help:
- Optimize time to market and cost during plant design and construction.
- Reduce risk by helping to ensure consistent and accurate asset information and data.
- Avoid multiple data input and data inconsistency issues.
- Enable efficient and cost-effective consortium collaboration across your plant lifecycle.
In addition, by using a common data model to aggregate existing design and build data, our solution can help:
- Enable advanced computing simulations for maintenance and modifications.
- Streamline compliance and re-licensing processes for regulatory reporting.
- Prepare data to be leveraged through high-performance computing for advanced operator modeling and visualization.
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| A blueprint for efficient plant modification
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In today’s power generation marketplace, extending the life of existing generation assets is paramount. One U.S. nuclear customer planned, streamlined and optimized their major equipment replacement using the intelligent plant lifecycle management approach from IBM. Our intelligent plant lifecycle management solution provides several benefits in this case, including:
- Reducing and controlling costs, and maintaining predictable project performance.
- Sequencing construction and planning the outage.
- Providing a comprehensive plant data management infrastructure to apply to future plant operations.
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| Enable high-powered performance for your assets
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The utilities industry is an asset intensive business. The cost of running, maintaining and optimizing your assets is significant. Many of these assets require a large investment to construct, are subject to market and regulatory risk, and require continuous maintenance and periodic replacement. The intelligent plant lifecycle management solution from IBM can help by providing data that allows you to maximize the performance of critical capital assets.
- Extend the use of data as an asset across your plant to improve the effectiveness of your operations.
- Better meet compliance goals by integrating both operational and financial asset data.
- Manage important aspects of each asset’s lifecycle, including acquisition, work management, inventory control, purchasing, preventive maintenance and disposal.
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Questions about this solution? Contact an IBM energy and utilities specialist.
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