To ensure the optimum performance of your plant and field assets, all asset-related information—including a range of unstructured content—must be available at the right time, to the right people. In the whitepaper “Information Fuels Asset Performance”, OpenText examines the plant asset management issues facing the Energy sector, as well as the solutions and benefits that an integrated enterprise content management (ECM) platform can provide. 
You’ll also learn:

-How to maximize asset uptime by effectively managing your information
-How to use asset information management to resolve key industry pain points
-How maintenance workspaces accelerate your management of change and shutdown-turnaround activities
-How complete, correlated, accessible content enables predictive maintenance
-How an integrated ECM solution can support Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) across your entire organization

The reliability environment for transmission providers has changed. NERC is now implementing legally enforceable reliability standards, and compliance has become more complicated, with penalties for noncompliance that can reach up to $1 million a day.  This paper looks at a subset of these new standards – facilities ratings, transmission planning and special protection systems – and how an advanced 3M conductor technology, 3M Aluminum Conductor Composite Reinforced (3M ACCR), can help simplify compliance and make it more cost effective, while protecting the reliability of the system.

Delivering the power that drives our economy and ensures our safety and well-being is the function of the transmission grid.  However, the industry faces a rapidly changing playing field where efforts to ensure grid reliability may be seen as constraining transactions from intermittent renewable resources and wholesale contracts.  At the same time, reliability oversight is increasing, a vocal public decries the siting of new lines, and economic conditions make investments that impact rates difficult to accept.
 Therefore, it is critical for utilities to reassess the full spectrum of tools available to them.  This white paper examines one example -- upgrading existing lines using advanced conductors – that can help optimize asset use and increase capacity quickly and cost effectively, while minimizing impacts on property owners and the environment.

Examining the construction industry’s move from point solutions towards project-based ERP.

How Engineer, Procure, Construct, Install (EPCI, EPC) can identify technology designed to manage risk across design, fabrication and construction activities.

In an attempt to better understand the importance of information-system applications use in the energy industry, global enterprise-applications company IFS commissioned a survey on unified management of project asset-life-cycles to evaluate energy companies’ current integrated information systems capabilities in the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors, as well as that of service providers. Read the article entitled - Survey: Energy Companies and Their Service Providers Can Still Improve In Information Systems Management ‘Best Practices’ featured in Oil and Gas Investor.   

IFS offers a proven, integrated business solution for efficient handling of the business processes for an EPCI contractor. With the project lifecycle in focus, IFS Applications provides support for project and contract management, engineering, procurement, material management, fabrication, installation, after sales, finance and human resources, all within the same business application. During the lifecycle of a project the CFO and the financial department will typically be more involved in areas such as project control, project accounting, risk minimization and performance management.

IFS Applications for Capital Projects offers owner-operators and contractors alike a modern, proven project driven business solution for efficient handling of the design, build and maintenance of capital projects.   

In selecting (EAM) software, usability ought to be a major criteria. Expert advice necessary to identify usability features in EAM.

A leading international offshore drilling contractor. Benefits from IFS Applications include Rapid access to control and management information about purchasing, inventory and other key factors, Information available when required, Single database for all sites and employees, and Interactive learning saved time and money.