Engineering Design Consulting
Executive View
Top Level Objectives
There are a lot of challenges today associated with Engineering Design projects.
- In the current economic environment, Engineering and Procurement Companies (EPC) are under competitive pressure to reduce cost.
- Risks associated with large scale projects are forcing EPCs to create partnerships of two or more EPCs to deliver these large projects.
- Owner Operators are contractually requiring engineering databases in "Turn-Over" packages.
Rolta's is in a good position to help address these challenges. Our consulting support can be used to identify how Engineering "Best Practices" can be used to increase efficiency; how strategies can be developed to minimize the number of internally developed spreadsheets and applications required to support the engineering work process and how intellectual property can be protected while working with another EPC and delivering final engineering data to the customer.
Rolta is focused on providing solutions that allow EPCs to increase margin on projects, to reduce project durations and improve the quality of design deliverables.
Solution - Innovation
EPCs can benefit from Rolta's expertise through strategies that transform the organization to achieve the current set of business objectives and business cases to implement these strategies with multiple scenarios to address change based on market opportunities. Rolta provides technology and infrastructure agnostic evaluation of the current state without a bias toward any simulation, design or database technology. We deliver best practices and business cases for their implementation and provide information technology recommendations to complement and automate new work processes.
Advantage - Insight
The visioning workshops combined with the gap analysis provide insight into the current and future work process capabilities and associated efficiencies. Benchmarking is used to provide insight into current state in comparison to industry best practices. Recommendations can also be formulated to reduce risk of intellectual property leak in project "hand-over" packages.
Benefit - Impact
Rolta's Engineering Design Consulting defines business programs to transform the organization to deliver the operational velocity and efficiency to meet the challenge of today's market, thereby increasing margins and new opportunities.
Management View
Business Objectives
Business challenges to improve efficiency and the collaboration between a distributed workforce can be daunting. Changes to drive improvement to numerous internally developed processes and tools can often elicit emotional responses. Rolta's consultants can help to increase EPC margin, decrease project duration, improve collaboration thru process improvements and technology and facilitate the tactical (customer driven) change required to achieve business goals.
Solution
All business improvements require change. One of the most important functions of Rolta's methodology is to encourage involvement from all stakeholders during our consulting engagement to ensure commitment to the business improvement recommendations. Innovations in Rolta's methods are produced because of our vast experience in process and power engineering and operations. We understanding operational and engineering details that when combined with work process and cultural change produce innovative recommendations that will improve our performance.
Approach
Rolta's engagement includes:
- The visioning workshops which provide the basis for discussing best practice processes and work process automation possibilities.
- Current process and information technology audits across the operations functional departments to analyze the process and technology gaps
- Business scenarios delivered in business case format for program development
Business Value
Results can be tangibly measured in terms of increased margins, reduction in project durations and engineering IT cost reductions on a per project basis.
Technical View
Technical Issues
The technical challenges faced by EPCs are significant. The following are typical:
- Changing technologies and increasing IT complexity
- Owner Operators requesting specific tools and technologies be implemented
- Owner operators requesting engineering data in "Hand-over" packages in addition to drawings
- IT and bandwidth infrastructure constraints where new mega-projects are being built
- Heterogeneous technology requirements based on each customer having different contractual obligations
- Design tool changes
Rolta has experience addressing these challenges and helping EPCs find new and innovative ways to address technical challenges. We have extensive experience with Engineering Design best practices and the know how to implement these practices across design centers. We have the ability to transform internal developed applications to a service oriented infrastructure without extensive custom programming. We have the know-how to help EPCs eliminate a significant percentage of internally developed utilities, applications and spreadsheets.
Solution Components
The depth of our consulting services is rooted in years of detailed engineering experience. We understand capital projects because of an in depth knowledge of detailed engineering as well as the financial models that are used to justify these projects. Our services methodology captures our years of real world experience in key questions to be asked, roles to be interviewed, business processes to be understood and key parameters to understand in order to favorably influence financial models and achieve ROI goals.
Implementation
Rolta's implementation approach includes:
- An executive sponsorship meeting to develop objectives and scope of the initiative
- Workshops to develop the current and practical future state of processes and information technology
- Recommendations that are delivered in the form of a business case
How Does it Fit and Why is it Different?
Rolta's consulting service is unique in its blend of work process and technology scope across the operational organization without bias toward any application provider. Technical and financial recommendations provide an actionable roadmap for implementing a program to achieve the desired results.