CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
23 May 2007
Implementation Investments
North China Power Engineering Wins 2007 BE Award
North China Power Engineering (Beijing) Co., Ltd. ( NCPE ), a leading provider of survey and design, engineering consultation, and general contracting services, has won a 2007 BE Award of Excellence for its creation of an integrated content management system based on the ProjectWise collaboration system. To date, NCPE has been able to save 80 million RMB and to cut project times by up to 30 percent as a result of improved collaboration.
The award, which was originally announced last month at BE Conference 2007 in Los Angeles, California, was presented to Mr. Wang Rong, vice president of NCPE, by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Monnier, senior vice president, Bentley Asia-Pacific Operating Unit. The award category was "Plant Lifecycle Information Management."
NCPE needed an integrated system to manage the design, information exchange, and publication processes for a portfolio of 1550 projects. The system would need to be traceable, satisfy quality control requirements, and be able to streamline the workflows of more than 1000 project team members by facilitating collaboration.
"Our use of ProjectWise has been widely accepted and viewed as a core capability by potential clients and partners of NCPE," said Mr. Li Zhi, general engineer, NCPE. "For example, NCPE and government-owned power companies recently reached an agreement to use the ProjectWise collaboration system for managing design content on future projects. In addition, when CH2M HILL, a global leader in full-service engineering, construction, and operations, selected NCPE as its partner in China, the firm said it was impressed with our deployment of ProjectWise."
NCPE is using ProjectWise to manage, find, and share design, engineering, and project information among multiple disciplines, coordinate and streamline publication and co-signature workflows, and to speed project creation and work schedules. System functionalities, which are fully integrated with the firm's ERP system, include directory and mapping, workflow, communication, version control, security, planning, and finished product.
The content NCPE is managing with the help of ProjectWise includes survey, design, and engineering data related to 142 600-kilowatt generator projects, 93 300-kilowatt generator projects, 102 5-million-kilovolt power line and substation projects, 118 2.2-million-kilovolt power line and substation projects, and 17 domestic and international general contracting projects. The ProjectWise system currently holds 19 data sources, 420,000 shared files, more than 52,000 process transfers and audits, and more than 240,000 published, archived, and delivered electronic documents and relevant hard copies.
For more information on NCPE's winning project and all of the other 2007 BE Award projects, visit http://www.be.org/awards . For more information on the Bentley products used in this project, visit http://www.bentley.com/ProjectWise
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