Østfold Energi case study copywriting, IFS. Østfold Energi supplies two percent of Norway's renewable energy. Using IFS since 1999, this case study explores how the software has improved preventive maintenance and digitized business operations across its power generation infrastructure.
- COPY: Ian Castle, Freelance Copywriter
- CLIENT: IFS
Case study copy sample, Manufacturing sector, IFS (US English)
[Excerpt]:
Business-wide insights
IFS supports Østfold Energi users with finance (including group consolidation), HR, procurement, project, maintenance and reporting, providing both analytics and business information functionality. The latest version also features IFS Lobby, a role-based user interface that can be adapted to the needs of the individual users, and IFS Aurena, the browser-based user interface. Explains Østfold Energi ERP Manager Heidi Wisur Hansen, “Upgrading to the latest version further improves our predictive maintenance and increases digitalization of our business operations. The business intelligence, analytics and Power BI capabilities combined with Lobbies and Aurena mean
we have richer reporting information available in real-time, in a visually appealing user interface”, says Hansen.
Preventive maintenance benefits
The IFS solution covers all Østfold Energi’s requirements for preventive maintenance on some of their most important assets including 10 hydroelectric power plants and the 6 district heating plants. The aim is to ensure these plants can deliver what they are supposed to at any given minute of the day. If something unforeseen happens, instantly available information highlights the issue. IFS provides the visibility and data needed to analyze the maintenance situation.
Each hydro power station is divided into 400-600 objects, which are monitored from a calendar based preventive maintenance setup in IFS. All in all, there’s more than 4000 objects in the hydropower plants and more than 1600 in the heating plants, on which there’s a secure and stable uptime. One of Østfold Energi’s main KPIs is to keep a maximum of 0.5% unplanned downtime – and most recently this has been very close to 0 %.