Project management services support equipment deliveries
Systematic project change management streamlines the work of the customer and designers
The future of electric cars is being built in Sotkamo. Terrafame’s new battery chemical plant, completed in spring 2021, produces nickel and cobalt sulphate for the manufacture of electric car batteries. Endress+Hauser supplied most of the project’s field devices – for almost one thousand measurement positions. Due to the large equipment base, Endress+Hauser saw the need for comprehensive project management and provided Terrafame with a project management service to support equipment deliveries.
Benefits of project management
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The project manager ensures the best suited equipment for the processes, thus avoiding incorrect deliveries and additional costs
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Equipment base and change management makes your work easier throughout the project
Project management and expert knowledge
Endress+Hauser's project manager Tapio Vesiluoma joined the project in 2019.
– My role is to ensure that we find equipment that is best suited for the customer needs, says Vesiluoma
External project management makes the customer’s and the designer’s work easier.
– We had to close the first equipment deals based on preliminary information. Tapio has been indispensable to the management of equipment base, and he has made our designers’ job easier, says Project Engineer Petri Leksis from Sweco.
W@M information service helps to manage the equipment base
W@M is Endress+Hauser’s database that collects information on all the supplied equipment and is updated automatically as changes take place in the life cycle of the equipment base.
– We have tried to use lists to monitor deliveries, but keeping the lists up to date turned out to be challenging. Now, we know that we have received a piece of equipment if it shows up on W@M, explains Seppo Reijonen, Automation Manager in Terrafame’s battery chemicals plant construction project.
– The information service is also very useful to us designers. W@M compiles all the information on and documentation for delivered products, says Leksis.
