CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

26 January 2009

Implementation Investments

DONG Energy Power A/S Chooses Comos

The Danish energy supplier DONG Energy Power A/S, based in Fredericia, is using Comos engineering software from Comos Industry Solutions for the first time. Comos, the complete engineering solution for the entire basic and detailed engineering process is being used for a major planned project. Already for years, Comos has been a proven solution in the power plant sector. The life cycle asset information management software is being used for the long-term planning, operation and maintenance phase of numerous projects, among others at ABB, E.On and Vattenfall.

In summer 2006, six Danish energy companies – DONG, Elsam, Energi E2, Nesa, Copenhagen Energy and Frederiksberg Forsyning – merged to form today’s DONG Energy Power A/S. The challenge was to bring together six different corporate cultures with around 5,000 employees, their working habits, and their workflows at numerous sites across Denmark and abroad.

Standardisation of engineering processes

The first thing in the focus was to achieve an optimum and efficient collaboration of all companies along with a standardisation of the engineering processes of all six companies. With the use of Comos, DONG Energy Power A/S has been enabled to create these essentials. The Comos engineering platform is now being used to manage all relevant data centrally in Comos and to achieve a transparent workflow across all departments even beyond the planning phase.

Ryan Schnipper, Senior Manager DONG Energy Power A/S:

“Not least, it has been a strategic decision for us to use Comos. The order situation is excellent; the demand for engineers is high, since in Denmark there is the same shortage of skilled professionals as elsewhere in Europe. By using the engineering tool, we can significantly reduce a large proportion of the current manual engineering. Besides accelerating the engineering and increasing the quality of our products, the integrative 3D engineering without cross-media conversion was the decisive feature that persuaded us to choose Comos. Comos will enable us to accelerate our engineering and increase the quality of our products.”

Terkel Tofte, Managing Director Comos Industry Solutions Denmark:

“We are proud of having won DONG Energy as our customer. It gives us the opportunity to prove once again that our experience in the power plant sector with our engineering software Comos will also cope with Dong’s quality and security requirements. By using Comos, DONG Energy will not only be able to realise considerable savings in the future more quickly. Moreover, engineers will work more efficiently and will be able to focus on their real tasks with optimisation of the engineering at the same time, achieved by integrative 3D engineering without cross-media conversion.

DONG Energy Power A/S uses MicroStation* and, with the Comos Plant Modeler, is now able to carry out integrative 3D engineering without media interruptions. The linking of 2D/3D planning takes place right from the start of the project. Electrical planning starts in parallel and control planning will proceed at a later date.”

If you have any further queries regarding Comos Industry Solutions in Denmark, please contact Mr. Terkel Tofte via e-mail at: terkel.tofte@innotec.com or call him at:  + 45 3324 4434.

*MicroStation is a suite of CAD software products for two- and three-dimensional design and drafting, a Bentley Systems trademark.

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