Dr. William Grossmann

Dr. William Grossmann
Vice President & Chief Scientist
SAIC Consulting

Dr. William Grossmann is vice president and chief scientist with SAIC Consulting--a business unit of Science Applications International Corporation. Previously Dr. Grossmann was director of Business IT Alignment for ALSTOM Power, Paris, France; chief knowledge officer for ABB ALSTOM Power, Mannheim, Germany; and chief information officer for ABB Germany. As ABB’s CIO, he was responsible for developing strategic directions and the coordination of IT support among more than 60 ABB operating companies in Germany. Dr. Grossmann was manager for ABB’s Corporate Research Engineering Systems Integration Program. As ESI program manager, he was responsible worldwide for the identification, acquisition and tech-transfer of maturing information technologies into ABB business units to enable business and engineering processes.

Abstract

ALSTOM Power Project: An Owner/Operator and EPC Success Story
The recently completed (PAC) combined cycle Cockburn power plant project built for Western Power, Australia will be described as an example of ALSTOM Power's use of global integrated engineering from project set-up, project execution and into the handover phase. The use of global engineering and project management processes have played a key role in delivering the power plant more than three months before contract delivery date.

A key feature of the Cockburn success story was the implementation of global functioning 3D planning tools and daily information/data exchange which has resulted in very early clash detection with subsequent significant reduction of usual costly workarounds on the building site. A consequence of the 24 hour data exchange was continual updating of the engineering database (EDB) which serves as a data warehouse for the project. The same EDB has resulted in higher quality "as built" engineering data/information, not O&M documents, to be handed over to the customer with access via portal technology. A video detailing this aspect will be shown.

The use of an integrated engineering approach over a project's life cycle is part of ALSTOM Power's business approach to a full service provider in the aftermarket based on life cycle asset information management. Relevant Cockburn project details will be described, illustrating the unique global integrated engineering approach used by ALSTOM.