The utilities and infrastructure industry is in transition. External factors – including shifts in governmental policies, a globally felt sense of urgency about conserving energy and water resources, advances in power generation techniques and new “smart” technologies – are driving massive changes throughout the industry. But most significantly, your company must evolve to compete in a marketplace where consumers increasingly expect high-quality customer service and believe that no company deserves their unconditional loyalty if it cannot perform to expectations.

Siemens PLM Software’s solutions for utilities and infrastructure help manage fielded equipment and facilities in a single, integrated platform that gives engineers, architects, EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contractors, governments, utilities and owner-operators the ability to design, build, operate and maintain utilities assets that perform more sustainably.

Utility Asset Management
Siemens PLM Software’s collaboration platform is the enabler for utility asset lifecycle management. It is the backbone to make more intelligent, more understood business investment decisions and improve your business efficiency and customer satisfaction while providing traceability of environmental and regulatory compliance.

Network Optimization
To meet and continue to meet performance targets, utilities and infrastructure companies must understand and plan for change. Siemens PLM Software’s solutions for network optimization give you the ability to simulate and understand your “network”. You are provided a view of the high-level network and the ability to optimize it for maximum efficiency against changing criteria such as:

• Live data from SCADA/PLC systems
• Climate forecasts
• Equipment performance curves
• Resource forecasts
• Daily supply and demand changes
• Electricity supply costs.

Through “what if” analysis, the sensitivity of existing and new networks can be analyzed in real-time to make better investment decisions.

Utilities Construction and Maintenance
Our solutions help you improve your asset creation core-competencies. You can manage business-critical processes for new asset creation including option selection, design, and development, through to effective commissioning; and at the same time managing all the associated data needed for lifetime operation. Integrated equipment design and manufacturing increases the efficiency of delivering new assets within the regulatory framework including health and safety, while ensuring transparency with all stakeholders.

Workforce Management and Optimization
To ensure the best workforce performance, Siemens PLM Software provides the ability to simulate, capture, schedule work jobs, and manage associated knowledge in a single integrated platform. You can optimize the workforce, skills, vehicles, resource costs and man-hours against geographical location. This solution combines current and future scheduled work driven by real-time data and call-center inquiries, through to capturing the maintenance and repair event in the field.

Our solutions can help you improve your current scheduling and work processes. You can capture the service work done, current maintenance status and associated data. The knowledge is shared securely with existing partners and suppliers when required. This approach improves contractor work job management, work-in-progress and local authority approval.