CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
25 January 2007
Implementation Investments
American Electric Power Purchases Generating Fleet-Wide License for NRX Asset Hub
NRX announced the sale of a generating fleet-wide license for the NRX Asset Hub at American Electric Power (AEP), one of the largest electricity generators in the United States.
After successful implementations at several AEP facilities, where the focus was on maintenance efficiency and knowledge retention, AEP will extend application of the NRX solution to interoperability with engineering partners and suppliers for capital projects, and integration with its document management solution. The solution is designed to help AEP reduce capital project risk and increase efficiencies in information handover between the design/construction and operations/maintenance phases of the asset lifecycle.
"With successful deployment of the NRX solution at our Gavin, Mountaineer, Amos and Rockport facilities, which comprise 22% of AEP's generating capacity, we believe NRX is a key enabler for operations, maintenance and reliability excellence, and the creation of the asset information foundation for new plants and generating units", said Mark McCullough, Vice President of Baseload Generation Assets, Fossil & Hydro Generation, American Electric Power. "We will expand deployment of the NRX Asset Hub to new builds where we can engage earlier with key suppliers and engineering partners to better meet our data and document requirements for plant commissioning, operations and maintenance. In parallel, we will continue with additional deployments in operating plants to improve productivity and reliability, and to leverage our existing investment in asset and document management systems".
The NRX Asset Hub solution combines both software and service methodologies to enable interoperability and operational excellence. The solution is a flexible staging area for owner operators and engineering companies, that provides a single view of engineering, asset management, reliability, and content management systems. AEP will employ the solution to: define data/document requirements and templates for engineering companies and equipment suppliers; collect and track asset data and documents; transform and deploy relevant information for operations and maintenance; and keep information evergreen throughout the asset lifecycle.
"Within many owner operator's organizations, the systems are there, but interoperability of siloed business processes, systems, data, and documents is a major challenge. The NRX Asset Hub creates a single source of truth for asset information", said Paul Gray, CEO of NRX. "We look forward to working closely with a market leading company like AEP on the deployment of the NRX Asset Hub. The solution creates new value for AEP across the entire asset lifecycle by streamlining business processes and maximizing the ROI on existing IT investments".
About American Electric Power
American Electric Power is one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, delivering electricity to more than 5 million customers in 11 states. AEP ranks among the nation's largest generators of electricity, owning nearly 36,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the US. AEP also owns the nation's largest electricity transmission system, a nearly 39,000-mile network that includes more 765 kilovolt extra-high voltage transmission lines than all other U.S. transmission systems combined. AEP's utility units operate as AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia and West Virginia), AEP Appalachian Power (in Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana and east Texas). The company is based in Columbus, Ohio.
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