CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
12 January 2010
Implementation Investments
Transtec Gotthard opts for CONTACT Project Management
Transtec Gotthard (TTG) is a consortium of in their fields leading enterprises Alcatel-Lucent/Thales, Alpine-Bau, Alpiq and Balfour Beatty Rail. These partners are prime contractors for the railroad technology of the new Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland and have decided to employ CONTACT’s Project Management Solution CIM DATABASE PCS to monitor their operations. The software is expected to contribute to the timely fulfilment of this ambitious engineering task at the agreed deadline 2017. Accordingly, a” Project Cockpit” has been installed for the head project monitoring unit within TTG, to support responsible bodies in their monitoring and controlling functions. The encompassing reporting facilities of the new system is expected to deliver an on-line reconciliation of all planned or currently on-going job segments and also services as a reliable database for reporting to the contractor, AlpTransit Gotthard AG (ATG).
ATG, a 100% subsidiary of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), now implements the vision of a trans-alpine low incline link, which will result in substantially improved transport and travel opportunities within the heartland of Europe. The Gotthard Base Tunnel is a key element of this new concept and, with its 57 km, can then claim to be the longest commercial traffic tunnel world-wide. All railroad technology is supplied by TTG, whereby the individual contractors are required to contribute their individual know-how regarding track technology, catenary, tunnel monitoring, tunnel security, power supply, telecommunications, logistics as well as planning and controlling.
This ambitious project is lastly structured via a multitude of highly complex set of job components which each resort to individual, encompassing job requirements in which detailed demands regarding specifications such as who, when and at which price must perform, are precisely delineated. With CONTACT’s Project Management Solution it is now possible to scrutinize such job-assignments and other project items according to differing criteria; to filter, evaluate and display their aggregate situation. Furthermore, it is possible to document and monitor deviations. These flexible structuring and reporting functions were lastly decisive for the TTG consortium’s option for CONTACT: „With CIM DATABASE PCS we perceive a tool that enables us to both depict and control a project of this scale with its manifold facets“, reasons Lars Dietrich, who, as Head of Technology, also answers to the smooth operation of the overall project. “And with CONTACT we have a technology partner who has convinced us by his overall project know how“.
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