a journey into the digital world

A Journey into the Digital World

Tim DeWitt

January 31, 2017

3

Click to Edit Master Style

A leading U.S. producer of clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy, Southern

Company owns electric utilities in four states, natural gas distribution utilities in

seven states, a competitive generation company serving wholesale customers

across America, as well as fiber optics and wireless communications.

47%

33%

16%

4%

Sources of Generation

Natural Gas

Coal

Nuclear

Hydro/Other

o ~44,000 MW of Generation

o ~80,000 miles of Natural Gas Pipelines

o ~9 million customers

o ~32,500 Southern Company Employees

o ~1,500 Engineering & Construction

Employees

Southern

Company

Who is Southern Company?

4

Click to Edit Master StyleTerritory Map

5


For more than a century, Engineering & Construction Services (E&CS) has been

designing and building generating facilities and the distribution and transmission

infrastructure to serve the electrical needs of our Operating Companies.

Who is Engineering & Construction Services

6

• Success managing large engineering and construction programs

o Efficient deployment of over $16 billion in capital since 2000

o Risk mitigation across the entire fleet of assets

o Consolidated safety program linked to productivity

o Lessons learned transferred to/from projects and operations

o Relationship/volume contract advantages with contractors, vendors and

craft labor

o Owner’s Engineer facilitates decision making

• Deep in-house technical expertise

o Holds vendors accountable

o Translates O&M experience into design excellence

Value Add

7


In 2015, E&CS (Technical Services) was facing a lifecycle issue with the current

design software. Our current software provider was phasing out portions of their

product and a decision had to be made on the path forward. After reviewing

current state, it was decided that the People-Processes-Technology synergy

needed to be more aligned

Current business needs evolved faster than the current technology can support,

most notably discovered on the Kemper County Project.

3D Design Tool Challenge

8

Click to Edit Master StyleKemper County Project

9

Click to Edit Master StyleKemper County Project – Fun Facts

Enough cubic yards of earthwork to construct a 4 foot wide by 1 foot deep sidewalk around

the US starting in Jacksonville, FL and heading to Los Angeles, CA to Seattle, WA to Augusta,

ME and back to Jacksonville, FL!

10


All of the caissons and ACP at Kemper stacked on top of each other would

surpass the altitude from which Felix Baumgartner performed his world record-

breaking skydive by nearly 13 miles!

11


Kemper will have enough cubic yards of concrete to construct the foundations and

inner structure of the St. Louis Arch 2.6 times!

630’

630’

12


Kemper will have enough tonnage of steel to build 85% of the main towers of the

Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco!

746’

Kemper County IGCC

37,810 tons

Golden Gate Bridge Main Towers

44,400 tons (Both)

13


Kemper will have enough linear feet of piping, including the external gas and

water piping, to span the river distance of the grand canyon!

14


• Kemper County project magnified our inefficiencies in our current design tool

and processes

• Document/File based design environment no longer acceptable

• More Engineers and Designers not the answer

• Diminising talent pool in workforce

• Must become more efficient to stay competitive

Awareness

15


• Duplication of work

• Design disciplines operating in silos

• Quality reports in a timely manor

• Inconsistent tool kit

• Change management

• Subpar handover to Construction, Startup, and Operations

Significant Current State Deficiencies

16


• Upgrade to the new offering from current software provider (this was a

document driven system)

• Consider new design software from a different vendor on a true data driven

platform

Options

17


A core Subject Matter Expert team made up of design discipline representation

was put together and tasked with determining the path forward for the

organization taking into account current state deficiencies including the following:

• Design functionality

• Adoption/integration/ease of use

• Strategic partnership

• Support of digital fleet

• Cost

Addressing Deficiencies/Path Forward

18


6 month phase consisting of the following:

• Meetings with internal departments

• Meetings with owners and EPCs

• Meetings with software vendors

• Attending conferences

• Studying industry findings

Discovery Phase

19


Per the UK building code, 2016 all government procured construction projects

must be delivered using BIM. Signs to come for us in the U.S. We are way

behind the times. We need to do this to survive and exist.

“Typical design, construction, operations and maintenance engineers spend 40-

60% of their time looking for information and validating it”

- National Institute of Standards and Technology Study

Conclusion

20


• Narrowed down to 3 software vendors

• Ranked each on 1 - 4 scale

• 1 = Does not meet

• 2 = Poorly meets

• 3 = Fully meets

• 4 = Exceeds

• Categories discipline specific

• Tallied up ratings

Evaluation Phase

21


AVEVA

Decision

22


For everyPhysical Asset…

Future State Overview

23


There needs to be a Digital Asset

Future State Overview

24


Execution Plan

?

3 categories did not exist

Training Classes – Tiger Team

• SMEs/Admins

• Configuration Team

Requirements

• SMEs/Admins

Configuration

• Admins

• Configuration Team

Execution Plan

25


• More collaborative work environment

• Reduced design cost

• Faster, more accurate design to customers

• Ability to expand into other areas in the organization (O&M)

• Skillset diversity

Expected Key Benefits

26


• Less drawing time

• More automated modeling

• Electronic report population

• Faster Project initiation

• Collaboration with other disciplines

Expected Gains - Civil

27


• Ability to dynamically modify piping systems without redrawing

• Everything is on one platform including scans, Structural, Civil , Mechanical,

and Electrical makes it easier to visualize where production is heading.

• Piping automation is very useful for routing and incorporating changes

• Copying between databases is much easier


Expected Gains - Mechanical

28


• Simplified, validated cable routing

• Flexible reporting

• Quick and accurate cable sizing

• Rapid drawing production for template-based drawings

• Eliminate redundant data entry reducing errors and improving efficiency.


Expected Gains - Electrical

29


• Automated loop development using P&ID integration

• Intelligent hookup details

• Instrument data sheet automation using information from Process Engineer

• Develop instrument index using intelligent P&ID information

• Streamline information sharing between controls and instrumentation

• Ability to copy drawings from an existing project, rename and retag

information, and produce new drawings in a database environment


Expected Gains – Instrumentation and Controls

30


• Significant culture change

• Know the organization’s people and how to manage them.

o Luddites – not willing to grasp or change

o Critical mass – willing but don’t have the skills yet …largest group

o Early adopters – very keen and already up to speed

• Appoint champions in each discipline and select the right project team

• Ensure IT Buy in. Very critical

• Assign a data manager or develop a hybrid department

• Involve all parties at some level from the start (design, construction, startup,

operations, etc.)

Challenges - People

31


• Resist using the tools the old way by using proper procedures and processes

• Proper procedures based on lessons learned and support from the vendor

• Keep procedures easy

• Avoid training too soon

• After procedures and processes are in place, conduct audits

Challenges - Process

32


• Let the technology work for you. Do not work against the technology

• Do not be alarmed by the software cost

• Buy the right computers

• Have the right infrastructure in place

• Put together the right support team

Challenges - Technology

33

Click to Edit Master StyleContinuous Improvement

34

Click to Edit Master StyleIntegrated Design Tool Deployment Project

35


36


37


38

SMM

E3DP&ID AE AI ENG

Design Modules

39

Full Design Integration

40

? Click here to contact the team today!

avevaworld.com

@aveva

/aveva

http://www.aveva.com/en/Contact/

http://avevaworld.aveva.com/

https://twitter.com/AVEVAGroup

https://www.linkedin.com/company/aveva

Contact Information Tim [email protected]: 205:992-5487

a journey into the digital world

Software