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The Energy industry will see unprecedented infrastructure investment over the next few decades to address the issues of global supply and the trend towards eco-friendly alternative energy sources.
Government and industry investments will support the design and construction of new infrastructure while existing facilities will seek to improve operational efficiencies to lower cost and ensure compliance with regulatory mandates.
Enterprise Informatics has decades of experience working with the energy industry, with primary focus on electric power generation and a significant presence in the Nuclear industry. Strong customer references are available within these sectors as well as oil & gas.
eB is used on the construction and commissioning phase of a facility by EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) firms to manage the complete information lifecycle of project-related activity – from the design engineering to complete construction and commissioning of the facility.
Once commissioned, eB provides a complete integrated suite of applications to operate and maintain the facility in compliance with federal, state and local regulatory mandates.
Business Values
Enterprise Informatics has a significant presence in the Nuclear Industry with its eB Nuclear Application Suite. The Suite consists of six integrated solutions built upon industry best practices—design engineering, compliance, information management, performance improvement, knowledge management and training.
In these trying economic times, Energy organizations are seeking solutions that help them reduce business risk, improve project predictability and avoid costly penalties. With eB, Energy organizations realize the following benefits:
- Vastly improve the accuracy of project and operational information
- Reduce schedule risk and improve coordination and collaboration for large complex projects
- Ensure compliance with federal, state and local regulatory mandates
- Lower the cost of plant operations and maintenance
- Improve quality and safety metrics to meet goals
- Reduce downtime associated with planned plant maintenance
- Increase return on assets
Energy firms save money by streamlining plant operations and maintenance, improve quality and safety with comprehensive change management, reduce downtime through integrated incident management and corrective action – and reduce business and compliance risk with accurate, trusted information. Visit our eB for Nuclear page for specific information about how eB can be used through the life cycle of a nuclear power plant.
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Applications
The renewable energy industry will see dramatic growth comprising of both alternative energy and sustainable energy companies, including those involved in hydroelectric power, wind power, nuclear power and solar power generation, and the manufacture, distribution and sale of petroleum and alternative fuels.
eB is used by Energy firms for enterprise information management throughout the life cycle of electrical generation plants.
The life cycle of these facilities includes licensing, construction, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning. eB captures, stores and manages structured data and unstructured content, including records, specifications, engineering drawings, procedures, reports, emails, design documents and licensing documents, and identifies and relates this content through object modeling to physical items such as equipment, systems, structures and components.
eB provides the core functionality to support the enterprise content management, configuration management and master data management needs of the Energy market. Solution features include:
- Business automation (workflow)
- Distribution management
- Enterprise information change management
- Measurement and managing impact of change
- Enterprise object modeling
- Records management
- Corrective action/action item tracking
eB for design engineering, procurement and construction
eB also provides a comprehensive project information management solution for EPC companies managing large complex construction projects, such as power generation plants. eB is used to manage the following business processes:
- Requirements management
- Project modeling
- Project information management/control
- Commitment tracking
- Project handover
- Project oversight
- Knowledge management
To learn more about how eB is used by EPC firms, visit our EPC Industry page.
eB for facility operations, maintenance and compliance
From an operations and maintenance perspective, eB provides a rich foundation for a suite of applications that support the complete life cycle of an electric power facility.
eB and elements of the eB for Nuclear application suite are used by non-Nuclear electric power generation facilities (fossil, hydro-electric) and the governing Electric Utility. These applications are well suited to non-Nuclear facilities, though they were designed specifically for Nuclear power plants who face stringent regulatory requirements by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and adhere to the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) Guidelines.
eB for Nuclear applications address the following business processes:
- Design basis requirements management
- Master equipment list (MEL) management
- Corrective action identification, tracking and management
- Observations; benchmarking; assessments; operating experience; trending
- Cable/Raceway management
- Plant configuration management
- Training requirements & qualification tracking
- Knowledge management capture
To learn more about our eB for Nuclear Application Suite, visit our solution page.
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Technology
Built upon an advanced Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), eB uses the latest Microsoft technologies. Developed with the same technologies as SharePoint, eB embraces Microsoft's .NET framework to form the foundation of its application server tier, web services and user interfaces. This architecture allows eB to easily be integrated to other business critical applications.
eB is compatible with Windows 7 and certified for Windows Server 2008. Enterprise Informatics is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.
The eB architecture is proven to be enterprise scalable and highly reliable, and offers the flexibility to adapt to the unique business requirements of a diverse customer base. eB is a highly effective solution for building bridges between SharePoint sites across the enterprise (eB for SharePoint) and other information repositories that are required to realize an effective EIM strategy.
eB for Enterprise is certified by the Institute of Configuration Management (ICM) as a four star Configuration Management software platform.
For more information visit the Technology page.
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Resources
eB for Nuclear Solution Brief
eB Nuclear Performance Improvement Application Brief
AmerenUE: Callaway Nuclear Plant Case Study
Constellation Energy: R.E. Ginna Nuclear Plant Case Study
Webinar: eB Nuclear Performance Improvement
A discussion and demonstration of eB’s Nuclear Performance Improvement Application. Download
Webinar: eB Nuclear Design Engineering
Further information is also available by following these links:
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Institute for Nuclear Power Operations (INFO)
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Customers
Energy Customers //
JEA
Initially used eB to manage the substation drawings. Since this time eB has been used to support documentation to support project schedules, invoices and other corporate documents. Most recently JEA procured eB for the corporation and the first initiative was the replacement of the IBM system that was managing the Human Resource records.
Northeast Utilities
Has a corporate license and uses eB to manage all of their documents for their materials and information management system the Ventyx Passport product. Other documentation that is managed are substation drawings and other engineering documents.
Premcor Valero
A refinery in Lima, Ohio that uses eB to manage all of their drawings. They are users of AutoCAD and leverage our CAD Connect product to manage their drawings.
Fayetteville PWC
Has been an eB user since early 2000 and used eB to manage the drawings and all associated documents for their water and sewer organization construction projects. Since that time eB has been procured by their electrical engineering organization and is now being used to manage their engineering modifications for the electrical department.
Ameren Generation
A new customer that will be implementing eB to support their Quality Management initiative at all of their non-nuclear generation facilities which will include management of engineering related documentation, engineering design change and corrective action. Transmission and distribution will be implemented in a later phase.AmerenUE (Callaway Plant)
Uses eB to manage their complete Design Basis requirements consisting of the licensing documents and Master Equipment List (MEL) as well as to manage their training requirements and records.
Energy Solutions
Uses eB to manage all project documentation in context to federal and project requirement structures. EnergySolutions, an international nuclear services company with operations throughout the United States and around the world, has chosen to standardize its enterprise information management on the eB for Nuclear platform, including Corrective Action, and Human Performance to support behavior based safety observations, surveys and trending.
Excel Services Corporation
Uses eB to provide independent project oversight on nuclear projects by means of eB managed compliance matrices.
Nustart Energy
Uses eB to prepare, review, collate and issue completed COLA’s to the NRC. Subsequent management of RAI responses are also managed using eB.
Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Station
Uses eB to manage their complete Design Basis requirements and Master Equipment List (MEL).
Constellation Energy Nuclear Group (Calvert Cliffs 1 & 2, Ginna, Nine Mile Point 1&2)
Uses eB to manage their complete Design Basis requirements consisting of the licensing documents and Master Equipment List (MEL). Has also been in production with eB Corrective Action since 2005 and eB Human Performance since 2007. All personnel at each of the plants have access to the system, which is considered a vital component of their ability to maintain safety and performance standards, as frequently monitored by the NRC and INPO©.
Nuclear Fuel Services
Uses eB to manage their complete Design Basis requirements consisting of the licensing documents and Master Equipment List (MEL).CH2M Hill
Uses eB to manage all related skills and qualification needs for large multi-disciplinary projects. The CH2M Hill Nuclear Business Group provides engineering, procurement, and construction oversight for nuclear projects worldwide and use the eB Nuclear Corrective Action application in addition to the eB Nuclear Information Management solution for document control and records management. In addition, CH2M Hill uses eB to manage all related skills and qualification needs for large multi-disciplinary projects.
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