FEED and Detailed Engineering Design Service
Executive View
Top Level Objectives
As new industries emerge the adaptability to change is critical to success. Shareholders demand return on their investments, management wants increased profitability and employees want a safe, healthy, low-risk work environment that fosters creativity and growth. How is this achieved while developing and executing demanding and complex cost and risk-sensitive EPC projects? The only choice is to focus on an EPC’s core business to ensure success. But equally important is to successfully out-source noncore services to partners chosen for their special expertise and cost savings advantage relative to your own resources. This ensures margin growth and quality delivery lowering risk to both clients and shareholders. The focus of this decision should be on the real cost saving elements projects while maintaining a differentiated technical advantage. Choosing a proven, safe and reliable partner like Rolta will help increase your business flexibility, fill talent and tool gaps and lower your risk.
Just 12 months ago there were not enough engineering resources to tackle existing EPC backlogs much less go after new large projects. Now we are in a complete reversal where every job is competitively bid with onerous terms similar to 2002 timeframe. Rolta can help you face these challenges by delivering high value engineering for small or large jobs, provide IT global sourcing so you can focus on your core business and help you coordinate data packages with other EPC companies on large contracts. Rolta utilizes the most up to date engineering platforms that your customers have specified. Rolta also has the breath of all engineering disciplines under one roof. Together this expertise will ultimately help you reduce the risks caused by today business complexities while you maintain profitability.
Customer’s goals to reduce project risks, increase backlog and remain profitable can be achieved through using Rolta as a highly trained, experienced and flexible work force to augment any global team. Rolta gives you the capability to expand or reduce man hours quickly to stay on schedule because of delays incurred by schedule clashes in your own team. We will also work with you on pre-bid engineering so you can increase your reach into the market place.
Solution - Innovation
Strategic flexibility is one of the key benefits that EPC executives achieve through working with Rolta. For example, if an EPC wants to get involved in a number of large projects as one EPC in a team of many, Rolta’s resources can provide the engineering expertise needed when your own team becomes very fractionated on many jobs. In today’s market Rolta can assist in your divide on conquer strategy.
Rolta also provides innovations such as our SP software utilities, SP knowledge, professorial implementation of SP Foundation and “Rolta Doc’s” which help our customers deploy Rolta resources quickly while minimizing risks. These innovations reduce the risk of schedule and quality issues.
Advantage - Insight
Technology, People and processes used by Rolta provide special insightful benefits to our clients through state of the art technology platforms that are enhanced through special programming for better integration, quality control and collaboration with our globally dispersed customers. Our people are trained for 6 months before deployed on any job. Ongoing training and career development never stops. Project management and delivery processes have been put into place by some of the most experienced executives.
Benefit - Impact
Margin improvement is always a top objective. If 150,000 man hours are delivered by Rolta on a large project, margin improvement could be as high as $8M for that project. This vastly reduces profitability risks on large jobs or portfolio of contracts. Consequently, Rolta can help influence the go to market strategy for an EPC by providing a large skilled flexible engineering workforce that can be made available for larger competitive bids or a larger number bids pursued to ensure backlog.
Management View
Business Objectives
Margins are decreasing in the engineering and process businesses because the bad economy is forcing managers to produce more with less. Just a short time ago there was too much work. Now, there is too little and companies are letting experienced staff go. When it comes time to produce results on your next project you may have too few people or not the right expertise available to complete the job on schedule and on budget with quality results.
Rolta can certainly deliver quality FEED and Detailed Design work for you but how does this help your business? We believe there is an opportunity for you to actually reduce your schedule and budget risks by working with Rolta. Because of our flexibility we are able to assign the correct head count that is best trained to complete your work. There is no better team managed in one place that can assist you in your project goals so you can meet your business objectives.
Rolta’s team of 550 well trained and experienced engineers are here to assist you with large or small engineering jobs. For owner operators or EPC’s that require an onsite engineer, Rolta will be pleased to supply onsite personnel that will work hand and hand with your team as well as Rolta’s offshore engineering team. We have all engineering disciplines and are experts in Intergraph’s PDS and SmartPlant technologies along with a host of others like AspenTech’s AspenPlus, Aveva PDMS, Autodesk, etc. You can consider Rolta as a flexible extension of your team so that you can ramp up and down as your business needs change.
Solution
Rolta's engineering team is made up of Process, Mechanical, Civil Structural, Plant Design & Piping, Electrical, Instrumentation and Project Management engineers with 2 to 30 years of experience. Many of the material specifications, symbols and other necessary data are already in our systems because of the vast number of jobs completed. We have the functional capability of creating these specifications and symbols if we don't already have them.
Approach
Rolta approaches this work in several ways that you may find beneficial. We are more than willing to work with our customers on pilot projects. This has been an effective way for many of our customers to experience first-hand the Rolta advantage. Secondly, our onshore offshore approach allows for 10% of all executed man hours to be performed at the clients physical site and the remaining man hours to be deliver from off shore.
Business Value
Rolta can help you increase your project margins by decreasing the costs of your projects without sacrificing quality or schedule. This also helps your business performance because your efficiency will increase for your staff when they are focused on other important business issues or production. Rolta has also worked with clients so that we are able to bid and land contracts together that would not be possible by either company independently which helps increase top line revenue for each partner.
Technical View
Technical Issues
Currently in the engineering world there is no neutral standard data format for design data to be transferred from one tool set to another. At least six commercial technology platforms and many legacy home grown packages exist today. This wide range of technology usage makes it very difficult to cover all your customers’ needs. Furthermore, each project is usually specified to be completed in one specific technology package so that the data is compatible. The demand estimates for work in a particular package are difficult giving rise to talent and training balancing issues in many companies.
Asset information lifecycle management is also a goal that owner operators are putting on EPC’s. These goals are difficult to achieve without good partners or solutions for this area. Rolta’s technical solution includes software utilities and services that can supply the owner operators with the correct format of quality asset master data for their operations. If Rolta is the design engineer partner on the job, then we can interact with the other contractors and Owner to ensure the correct data packages are transferred.
Solution Components
Rolta's engineering team is made up of Process, Mechanical, Civil Structural, Plant Design & Piping, Electrical, Instrumentation and Project Management engineers with 2 to 30 years of experience. Rolta has its own large material specifications database for PDS and SmartPlant. Rolta also has a very sophisticated SmartPlant Foundation implementation to handle all transmittals and engineering documents through the lifecycle of the project.
Implementation
Rolta is pleased to work on small and large jobs to help our clients using our onsite offshore workshare methodology. We usually expect about 10% of the work to be completed by our onsite staff while the remaining portion is executed by are excellent offshore staff. We find that this decreases the management burden on our clients and increases efficiency and quality of the deliverables produced.
How Does it Fit and Why is it Different?
Rolta brings technical advantage to any project through all our engineering disciplines but especially in our general SmartPlant expertise and especially in SP3D. Rolta is capable of executing projects in SP3D at greater efficiencies than any other partner, helping to assure that your schedule and budget is met.