eSOMS is designed to provide a consistent, organized, and integrated approach to those activities which affect equipment configuration, system status, and hence plant operation. This means that your facility will benefit from:

• Enhanced Efficiency, Productivity, and Safety - Users have reported significant, measurable gains in efficiency and productivity in operations tasks automated by eSOMS.

For example, using the equipment position verification tracking capabilities of the Configuration Control and Clearance modules, power plant customers were able to eliminate repetitive in-plant equipment position verifications by taking credit for electronic procedures and tagouts recently performed. And because of the decreased number of in-plant equipment manipulations required, the human error rate for such activities dropped dramatically.

• Reduced Time & Costs of Operations Activities - Taking advantage of electronic tag sharing in the eSOMS Clearance module, a military customer realized a 94% decrease in the total number of tags required to be processed during a 14-month major overhaul, saving an estimated $4-6 million in man-hours alone.

Similarly, commercial power plant customers have shaved up to a week off the duration of major plant outages as a direct result of eSOMS implementations. Estimates of replacement power costs alone saved by bringing a major power plant back on-line a week early range from $3-5 million.

• Consistent & Compliant Processes - A pulp & paper manufacturer was better able to create, organize, and implement their equipment inspection routines, and combine their fire safety inspections with the Operator Rounds module.

Nuclear power plant operators use the Personnel Qualifications & Scheduling module to implement a consistent methodology for generating and maintaining staffing requirements and schedules in compliance with complex regulatory work limits, thereby preventing costly regulatory fines. Action Tracking ensures that equipment and systems that are unavailable or inoperable due to various operations and maintenance activities are restored within regulatory time limits.

All organizations benefit from a corporate-wide standard in the areas of operations and maintenance management, particularly in those organizations that share resources among several plant locations.

• Easier Access to Information and Record Keeping - As an enterprise solution, critical information in each eSOMS module is just a few mouse clicks away. The eSOMS Narrative Logs module has become a fixture on the desktop of many plant managers as a tool to track the current operating status of the plant and to disseminate directives such as standing orders.

eSOMS reports are Crystal Reports® compatible, allowing you to customize the standard reports or create your own. The eSOMS AutoPrint module generates Adobe Acrobat® files of critical operations documents (procedures, tagouts, rounds, logs) and automatically transmits them to third-party electronic document management systems eliminating much of the document control administrative burden.