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R&D project – Method for Concurrent Engineering

The Norwegian transport industry’s new methodology within simultaneous design and interdisciplinary collaboration has been developed over four years. The project group summarizes the experiences of using the method and points to the way forward. What have we learned from the methodology, and what should we take forward for the best for the entire transport industry?

Erling Graarud is responsible for the R&D project and explains the background for the method development of faster project implementation;

“In today’s transport projects, the tasks have become more complex, the number of processes and specialists has increased and more subjects and aspects are included. To ensure that all societal goals and other requirements are met, it is important that decisions are made on the broadest possible basis, at the right time, and with the greatest possible understanding of the overall picture. The goal of the R&D project was therefore to find methods that effectively ensure that the right parties are involved and make the right decisions at the right time. To also do this faster, a simultaneity of the work is required, says Graarud.”

Click here to read more: Erfaringer fra Samtidig prosjektering og veien videre | Metier (prosjektbloggen.no)

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Integrated Operation Center

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What is an Integrated Operation Centre?

An Integrated Operations Centre (IOC) is a dedicated environment designed to tackle the business problems that manifest when working with highly collaborative processes. 

The most typical of these is within an operational environment where many dependencies exist between;

Creating a product

Managing the quality of the product

Getting the product out the door efficiently, to the best market conditions available

In what industries do you find Integrated Operation Centers?

Many industries utilise the concept of IOC’s to help with their operations; manufacturing, oil & gas production, energy generation & distribution and so on. The broad roles, time pressures and underlying business issues remain similar but each industry will have a different emphasis.

What does an IOC look like?

 The following simplified diagram shows typical roles and seating within an IOC to maximise collaborative efficiency for operations: 

Integrated Operation Center Roles and layout

Each seat holds a role representative, not the entire team. The individual responsible for the minute to minute operations of the role within.

How does the Center help?

IOC’s operate in very time sensitive environment and if there is friction between these areas or a single failure, then the entire operational process can be compromised leading to massive inefficiencies. There is a need for everyone to see an up to date “big picture”, share a set of common priorities and have the experts at hand to support any breakdown in the process.

IOC’s are built to support the smooth running of critical areas of a real-time business.

Large and smaller centers

Not every IOC is “whole operations” focussed. Some companies may have a need for a smaller centre (or series of centres) to manage a single complex aspect of the business. These can often provide a massive value despite their size:

Planning:
A single planning function needs constant input from a huge range of distributed stakeholders and the ability to push their plans out to the same group. These planning centres have most other roles at the end of a VC rather than in a room together. (Virtual IOC)

Equipment Support:
A series of tiered centres able to support the complexities of machines and technology. Each tier offers a different level of specialisation to provide the most efficient use of resources.

Are you interested in learning more?

We have created the ultimate guide for building operation centers based on experience from 30 worldwide initiatives.

Read more here

Corona situation (Covid-19)

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Corona situation (Covid-19)

Epsis is closely following the global situation in connection with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We as our customers have taken our own measures to keep our staff as safe as possible, and most of us are now working from home. The IT industry is central in keeping some of the wheels rolling in our communities. This also applies to the services that Epsis are providing. We take our social responsibility seriously and work to best meet government requirements whether we are based in Norway, UK, Australia and USA, protect society’s most vulnerable and at the same time deliver on our commitment to our customers. We are grateful to all those working to mitigate the effects of the virus and out thoughts are with all who are being personally affected.

Epsis support & teamwork

We have, in recent weeks experienced that our customers have had an impressive ability to quickly find good solutions for maintaining production and capacity, while meeting the requirements of the authorities. As a result, Epsis remains fully operational and will (for the time being) continuing to provide our full range of support and services in all time zones. Our staff is working from home, in line with the most recent advices of the governments (in Norwegian, UK, US and Australian), while maintaining the same levels of professional services and availability as always.

We have long experience in working remotely without compromising the productivity and our delivery capability. We are used to handling demanding assignments, and as experts we also quickly get up to speed and become productive. We feel we have established the right mechanisms to assist our customers in this demanding situation. If anyone gets sick, we have backup routines to take over the support function. Our team is dedicated to help our customers on remote operations. Please contact help@epsis.com if you have any technical questions.

Client relationship

Our customer relationship is very important to us and we want to help in any way we can. As well as using email correspondence we are happy to talk with you on video conference or telephone. Our team is currently helping customers effectively set up virtual remote operations centres and adapt new ways of working into the operations.

Ways of working & IT security

We use Teams and Yammer as our internal communication platform and start every morning with a virtual coffee meeting. We find it important to talk on a regular basis to lift the team spirit and share tips on how to work smarter remotely. Today we got a reminder: Unfortunately, there are people with bad intentions using this situation to try to get into people’s and businesses system. Remember – Do not click on any links or attachments unless you are 100% sure. If you are wondering call and ask the sender before opening.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns regarding solutions and deliveries on Jan-Erik Nordtvedt / +47 55 92 57 50,- Together is better, even remotely.

Thank you and stay safe, the Epsis Team

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Epsis is moving and re-branding

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Epsis is moving and re-branding

Epsis are pleased to announce that we have moved to new and great looking offices within walking distance to Bergen Airport, Flesland. The new offices are part of our re-branding business.

We are looking forward to being part of Bergen Business Park in Flesland and hope that you want to visit us soon.

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New branding

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We are excited to announce that Epsis has launched new branding today.

“There is a big change underway in the oil and gas industry and beyond; digital solutions are not so focussed on the technology and are instead embedding improved ways of working within Integrated Operations to deliver value and performance improvements . In Epsis we are very enthusiastic about this evolution as it aligns perfectly with our approach and capability. Epsis wishes to move with the times; to develop this thinking further and embrace a more global outlook, so we have created forward-looking branding to reflect our forward-looking company” says CEO Jan-Erik Nordtvedt.

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