Marchwood Power is to support the operation and
maintenance of its £400m gas turbine power plant under construction
near Southampton with new software.
The package provides business process integration at the power
plant, including modules for maintenance management, finance
management, procurement, and supply chain planning and
execution.
The power plant, due for completion in 2009 and designed to
supply electricity to 800,000 homes, will be run and maintained
using QuickStep Enterprise
Asset Management software from
Lawson.
Tony McShane, plant manager for Marchwood, said, "Our industry
operates on a 24/7 basis, 365 days a year, involving complex and
expensive assets, so any downtime creates an expensive situation
which needs to be minimised through a good maintenance
strategy."
He said Marchwood had chosen the software because it provided a
single integrated system to underpin a good maintenance strategy
and ensure operational efficiency.
The implementation at the Marchwood power station will be
carried out in two phases with finance and procurement first
followed by maintenance and logistics scheduled to be completed by
the end of this month.