SMARTPLANT® CLOUD BENEFITS FOR EPCs0 pages
SOLUTON SHEET
SOLUTION:
SmartPlant® Cloud is a tailored computing environment offering a self-contained
ecosystem of SmartPlant Enterprise, your
third-party solutions, and in-house applications supported by dedicated technical
and business operations services uniquely
tailored to our industry.
BENEFITS:
SMARTPLANT® CLOUD
BENEFITS FOR EPCs
INDUSTRY PRESSURES
We understand today’s challenges and how they affect engineering, procurement, and
construction firms:
•tEnergy demands are growing at an incredible pace. Analysts expect investment spend
to reach US$38 trillion by 2035.
You already use data-centric applications
like SmartPlant P&ID, SmartPlant
Instrumentation, and Intergraph Smart™
3D, because intelligent data has
tremendous value in your work processes
and for populating both your project’s and
your client’s operational systems.
•tProject sizes require multiple partners.
Having projects in the cloud offers
you many advantages over traditional
implementations. Intergraph® SmartPlant
Cloud can take your expertise to the
next level by enabling your company to
leverage your data-centric knowledge
to benefit the client well beyond
project end.
other partners, and maintain high levels of quality has never been greater. Add to this
SmartPlant Cloud can increase
consistency, enable you to scale your
team more efficiently and quickly, outlay
less initial capital, provide earlier visibility
into partner efforts that affect your
work, and help you manage your team’s
quality level regardless of where the team
execution is occurring.
always tends to be one of the top reasons for delays.
SmartPlant Cloud offers potential new
business opportunities. These range
from strategic alignment with clients
to providing a consistent infrastructure
for all of your offices to train, work, and
deliver to a known level of quality. Align
internal work processes and software
positions, and maintain your knowledge
level across all of your office locations.
ocations.
•tSchedules are tighter.
•tProjects are in more geographically challenging locations.
Information Access
The pressure on EPCs to execute on schedule, have consistent deliverables with
the fact that data-centric engineering systems provide a higher level of intelligence
for populating procurement, construction, and plant systems. Managing and synchronizing documents and data across partners is a larger and more important task
than ever.
The evidence is clear. Studies have shown that at least 40 percent of projects miss
the planned schedule. Delays can be caused by many factors, but information access
If you are the Project Management Consultancy (PMC), your role is to make sure that
all information meets requirements. Usually this means you have the task of making
all information meet the requirements after final delivery from the other contractors.
The potential for duplication of effort in cleaning up project materials puts pressure on
resources and schedule. SmartPlant Cloud can provide earlier visibility into partners’
deliverables, offering the opportunity to fix any issues earlier in the process, reducing
rework and saving schedule.
SOLUTION STRATEGIES
Increased Quality, Minimized Downtime
The impact of inconsistent or dispersed data affects plant operations’ bottom line.
Operators typically plan for 8 percent downtime every year. However, when they analyzed their records, the downtime was actually closer to 16 percent – double the time
that was planned.