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by Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Monday, July 03, 2006 8:00:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    How does a relatively small manufacturing technology vendor cope when faced with a major new customer project that is several times larger than anything it's previously been involved with? By getting creative, say officials at real-time performance management software provider OSIsoft Inc., which recently landed a $300 million deal from an arm of the State Grid Corp. of China to deploy its platform at 5,000 power plants. OSIsoft, a 25-year-old software provider whose PI System is used by process manufacturers and utilities to collect from production environments data that can be used to evaluate performance in real time, will provide software and services to FibrLINK Communications Co. Ltd., the systems integration arm of the State Grid Corp., the largest power provider in China. The OSIsoft performance management software will be rolled out to 5,000 plants across China over the next seven years. It will be used to create what FibrLINK calls a Supervisory Information System (SIS) database. According to Jun Zha, the chief technology officer of FibrLINK's Energy IT unit, data in the SIS database will be used to determine which plants and equipment are performing well and which are not. The State Grid Corp. will use the information to create performance standards that will help the company improve the output of underperforming plants and equipment. The company will also use the information to perform condition-based maintenance, Zha says. [Click to continue] |
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