Model and Data Migration
Executive View
Top Level Objectives
Mergers and acquisitions have created a plethora of digital asset data formats for companies to deal with. Because of this the owner operators force the EPC companies to design in formats to match their plants or divisions formats. This causes increased expense for EPC’s and owners to maintain multiple design systems, train personnel and support underlying IT infrastructure. Efficiencies are also lower because reuse is more difficult; rework is high and integration is very expensive and almost technically impossible.
The challenge to fix this situation involves costly software, retraining, data and model migrations, new work processes and organizational agreement on data formats and flows. These costs are offset by the increased engineering efficiencies between 10%-20% that maybe realized by upgrading the engineering infrastructure using Rolta’s services, consulting and best practices. The organizational and functional ripple effect from this can help operations and maintenance almost as much as engineering and capital project management.
Solution - Innovation
Rolta EDOS is truly a technology independent customer advocate coaching our clients from the strategy and business case development stages through installation, stabilization and enterprise rollout including all training. End results are gained efficiencies, market competitiveness and organizational alignment.
Rolta’s software tools, best practices, workflows and customizations meet client’s requirements not available from any signal independent partner in the industry. Rolta is all too familiar with the shortcomings of out of the box data conversions and has developed a methodology almost to perfection with a very high success rate.
Advantage - Insight
Capital projects, maintenance work orders, process engineering and general trouble shooting will have better insights into their projects when taking advantage of the consistent and accurate documentation sets provided by the Rolta model and data migration teams.
Benefit - Impact
The lack of consistent and accurate documentation can be the cause of many different types of cost overruns, environmental excursions, safety related incidents and operational issues. Rolta's services for model and data migration can help reduce and possible eliminate these type of issues and risks in your business.
Management View
Business Objectives
It is very rare that any project today starts phase one with updating legacy documentation because it is a very difficult and time consuming task and many companies don’t see or understand the ROI for this work. It is not until unforeseen risks come to bare on a project that a company or project team wish they had taken the time and effort to baseline all their drawings and documents for the project. Usually at this point it is too late and the unseen risks turn into large cost and schedule overruns.
Project cost and schedule adherence along with avoidance of many other unforeseen risks is the goal and benefits achieved by working with Rolta. Rolta’s offshore 550 person strong team are all engineers and thoroughly trained to help our clients with project, plant or enterprise wide update programs for all engineering documentation. Many clients choose to update as needed and will use Rolta’s team only when needed while others try to accomplish a certain amount each month to try to finish the entire library in a year or two. Rolta has the breath of team to tackle all your model and data migration needs.
Solution
Often migration of data and models requires engineering skills to recognize subtle mistakes in the original drawings and then correct them with current engineering standards. This function is difficult to find onshore because of expense and availability of man power. Rolta's unique approach is our onshore offshore mix of engineers working the project with our innovative workflows, quality controls, material databases and custom software technology for accuracy and efficiencies.
Approach
The most critical step in Rolta's processes is finding and correcting original engineering or drafting errors. Bad documents in modern platforms still will introduce major risks. Most companies do not use engineers for this type of work so they will never find the critical or subtle errors that may result in your project cost and schedule overruns.
Business Value
The principle financial impact for using legacy and outdated engineering databases is costly overruns and schedule delays. These risks will be revealed at different times during your project or during operations of your plant. Consequently, the amount of benefit spans a large range. Many safety incidents in the past few years have not had updated documentation for their assets because of the data and model migration costs. Some of these safety incidents which cost $100'sM and could have been avoided.
Technical View
Technical Issues
Material databases are usually a huge technical issue when trying to update your models and engineering data. All new platforms have certain technical requirements for material specifications and symbols. This can present major technical challenges and expenses. Depending on the symbols used, updating the symbols database and creating customized symbols also present technical challenges. When large models are migrated much of the model has to be re-authored by an experienced engineer. This engineer has to be technically savvy and understand the domain they are operating in.
Even if you have the time and money to completely update your engineering data and models you may not have the technical talent available to spend the required time on the project. There are also several technical competencies needed to complete this type of project: materials specialist, instrumentation specialist, piping expert, electrical expert and process engineering expertise. Rolta has the technical systems, customized technology and technical experts to help you meet you project goals of cost and schedule. Also ongoing operational goals can be enabled through enhanced trouble shooting and safer operations using the updated engineering models and data.
Solution Components
The technical elements of our services capabilities include custom software technology to catch errors, software to support the migration of data and best practices for material specification development.
Implementation
Rolta leverages a global team to provide engineering services. Most of our team works out of our fabulous facilities in Mumbai. We also can provide onshore resources as necessary to meet project requirements. There is a strict discipline established on projects to support document flow management for quality and schedule adherence.
How Does it Fit and Why is it Different?
Through Rolta's updating documentation program you can be assured of accurate data and model updates when you need them for your project schedule and costs, ongoing support for your entire database and the ability to ramp up or down the number of resources you need at any time.