Concept and Product Development 

Purpose

IDES Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of the North American IDES corporate group, has comprehensive knowledge of power plant construction.

This knowledge is included in templates and documents such as work breakdown structures, networks, BOMs, technical drawings and instructions. This know-how is managed in the SAP System using PDM functions. In other words, the knowledge and experiences are stored in master data and, for example, standard WBS, standard networks and functional locations.

Project-independent definition of the templates ensures that when the quotation is processed, complete and correct information is available to estimate and limit technical and economical risks and to keep costing and planning efforts to a minimum.

The templates are amended regularly to reflect changes and improvements in technology and certain areas of business and experiences from operational business.

Process Flow

You do not have to perform these steps as they have no influence on the further process. However, it helps your understanding if you make yourself familiar with the basic structures.

The following graphic clarifies the process:

  1. Display Standard WBS

    2. A standard work breakdown structure (WBS) serves as template for creating or enhancing an operative project structure. You can use this standard WBS to automatically generate a project with all the objects and hierarchical relationships required for processing a customer inquiry.

  2. Displaying a Standard Network

    3. The planned process flow (for the construction of a power plant) is displayed in networks. Appropriate activities with their time-based dependencies are created for the individual tasks. These milestones are used within a project to control when certain phases in the process have been achieved. You can adapt predefined networks when you process a customer inquiry, a quotation or a sales order.

  3. Functional Locations

    4. You can use functional locations to help you structure the operational systems. A project-independent structure for the power plant serves as template for processing quotations. It has to be adapted to suit the customer’s needs for an operational project.

  4. Displaying a Material

Materials that are used in the construction of a power plant are stored in a material master record.