Urals Power Engineering Company, JSC Improves Management for 70 Complex Power Generation and Power Grid Projects with Integrated Solution
 
 

Urals Power Engineering Company, JSC Improves Management for 70 Complex Power Generation and Power Grid Projects with Integrated Solution

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Urals Power Engineering Company, JSC (UPEC), established in 2002 and part of Energostroyinvest Holding since 2008, is one of the largest Russian engineering companies and a renowned leader in the design of power generation facilities and power grids for all rated voltages. The company operates in the Ural region and Western Siberia, covering approximately 25% of Russian territory.

Most of UPEC’s projects are for its strategic customer, the Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System (FGC UES), which operates and manages Russia’s unified electricity transmission grid system; branches for the backbone, electricity grids of Ural and Siberia; interregional power distribution; as well as wholesale and regional power generation.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Urals Power Engineering Company, JSC

  • “Thanks to Oracle’s Primavera P6 Professional Project Management and Oracle’s Primavera P6 Progress Reporter, project planning is now faster and better quality. We are able to calculate actual and planned working hours and make accurate forecasts, as well as monitor our personnel’s workload. Primavera has become an indispensable tool for us.” – Svetlana Semenova, Head of Project Office – IT Department, Urals Power Engineering Company, JSC

  • Implement an efficient system to streamline the planning and execution of power generation and power grid projects, such as the construction of two steam-gas plants in the Surgutskaya hydropower plant, the reconstruction of a gold slag disposal system in the Raftinskaya hydropower plant, and the construction of an entire power generating facility in the Sredneuralskaya hydropower plant
  • Enable UPEC to execute multiple production projects simultaneously without compromising on deadlines or quality required by its customers
  • Enable detailed analysis of operational and forecast loads on UPEC’s resources and flexibility for augmenting or reducing production project resources
  • Implement a knowledge base for project management by capturing and identifying recurring data, such as project structures, schedules, and segments, and labor hours required per project segment
  • Ensure that project procedures and monitoring are reproducible to consistently achieve high-quality results

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Leveraged Oracle’s Primavera P6 Professional Project Management Release 7.0 to manage the entire portfolio of 70 complex projects with multiple suppliers and subcontractors in an integrated project management system, substantially enhancing team productivity, project planning, control, and delivery
  • Used Oracle’s Primavera P6 Progress Reporter for issuing daily or weekly job assignments and collecting information about job progress, thus facilitating project coordination and collaboration across the enterprise
  • Facilitated the acquisition of actual labor data while manufacturing infrastructure and equipment for power generation and distribution, satisfying UPEC’s mission-critical requirements to ensure detailed cost control for each project
  • Enabled resource managers to accurately estimate the actual and planned resource utilization, thus gaining valuable insight regarding the status and performance of each project
  • Assisted resource managers in initiating corrective actions more easily by augmenting or decreasing resources for production projects, as required
  • Facilitated analyzing load forecasts based on UPEC’s present areas of expertise to make sound decisions on project bids
  • Improved substantially the accuracy of results forecasts, for individual projects as well as the company's entire project portfolio
  • Ensured repeated and consistent success for production projects by standardizing on Primavera’s best-in-class project management practices
  • Configured data capture of manufacturing activities in real time to enable decision-making based on current and updated information and to facilitate sharing data with other applications
  • Enabled UPEC to generate reliable summary reports in real time with the detail level desired by senior and midlevel management on topics such as progress, project completion, and units of activity for a given period
  • Avoided substantial effort in compiling reports and helped managers make more informed decisions regarding schedules, loads, and resources
  • Integrated the application with corporate financial management systems through simple data transfer

Why Oracle

UPEC chose Oracle’s Primavera applications because they enable the company to accomplish the tasks demanded by its customers and the market. In particular, UPEC was able to increase the transparency of its project management for resource planning and improve forecasting accuracy, which is the key to efficiently executing high-quality projects with on-time completion.

Partner

PMSOFT and its subsidiary, PMSOFT-Urals, customized Oracle’s Primavera P6 Professional Project Management and Oracle’s Primavera P6 Progress Reporter to meet the needs of UPEC’s business processes in the short time frame required, despite that UPEC’s branches are spread geographically over a large area.