Engineering, Plant, and Facilities Management
- Operations, facilities and refinery management
- Engineering management
- Compliance officers
- Locate and process critical content 50 percent faster
- Decrease EHS permit and audit time management over 30 percent
- Initiate projects 20 percent faster with hybrid cloud deployment
Reduce Financial Risk
Ensure Compliance
Increase Productivity and Collaboration
Deploy Faster
Solution Description
Challenge
Organizations that design, construct, operate, and maintain large plants and facilities are facing growing competition and increased environmental, health, and safety (EHS) oversight.
Technology Solution
To help organizations address critical business challenges, the EMC Engineering, Plant, and Facilities Management (EPFM) solution helps to optimize engineering and construction projects and improve plant operation and maintenance while ensuring EHS regulatory compliance.
During the six-phase lifecycle of a plant—feasibility, design, construction, operations, renewal, and decommission—individuals and internal and external organizations involved in the various lifecycle phases share significant content and processes. As a result, project owners face critical issues like information loss between project phases that delays completion and increases overall project cost.
In addition, managing multiple—and often custom—systems that aren’t well integrated increases IT costs. The risks and costs associated with EHS noncompliance are unacceptably high. Finally, the potential of a plant’s catastrophic event due to wrong or out-of-date information such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) or as-builts being accessed.
Based on EMC Documentum, our EPFM solution reduces the risk of plant shutdown and downtime and ensures successful project completion. It provides secure, efficient access to "as-built" engineering drawings enterprisewide as well as across enterprise boundaries. This streamlines the business processes that rely upon efficient access to engineering content.
The EPFM solution also reduces user training and deployment costs, and enables interoperability between other applications in the maintenance and project scheduling areas.

Figure 1. EPFM Solution Framework
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Partners
Implement the EMC Engineering, Plant, and Facilities Management (EPFM) solution with help from the following EMC partners:
BTM Software
BTM offers EPFM Drawing Management, based on the BTM DRAWbridge Suite, to complement the EMC EPFM solution by providing additional enhancements and support for drawing management, which makes up 60 percent or more of engineering documents.
Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC)
IGC provides Brava for EPFM, enabling quality view and annotation capabilities.
Resources
Analyst Reports
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Using Information Intelligence to Improve Projects in the Energy Sector
Data and Spec Sheets
EMC Perspectives
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Energy Sector
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News & Blogs
News
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May 22, 2012
EMC Accelerates Journey to Cloud for Engineering, Plant, and Facilities Management Organizations -
May 22, 2012
EMC “Certified Solution” Partner Program Heats Up -
May 8, 2012
EMC Delivers New Solution to Transform Processes for Designing, Building, and Operating Complex Plants
Blogs
Learning & Events
Learn
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On-Demand Event
When a Catastrophe Strikes a Utility—Five Ways to Reduce Risk, Hosted by Power MagazineOnline, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET -
Recorded Webcast
Engineering and Construction Projects: How Do You Know If You Need Cloud Control? -
Recorded Webcast
Improve Plant Management, Presented by IDC Energy Insights
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September 13, 2012
Platts/Energy Week Webcast: Avoiding the Pitfalls: Decommissions, Conversions, and Risk Management”Online, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET -
November 5-8, 2012
Momentum Europe 2012: Transform IT+Business+YourselfVienna, Austria
