FIRM Engineering

Managers and analysts in engineering and planning groups are typically forced to make planning decisions based on outdated and inaccurate data. FIRM Engineering fixes this deficiency and helps maximize the value of departmental CapEx.

Sitting on top of FIRM Foundation, FIRM Engineering is an indispensable decision-making tool used to plan additions, removals and replacements of power equipment based on projections of useful life and utilization growth of units within your infrastructure. Users can reliably monitor projects and use real-time data to identify their impact on equipment, costs or any other decision-making parameter.

Optimize your capacity. Increase your flexibility.

• A Tier-1 telco reduced the power planning processtime by 70% for the same number of projects.
• A network operator absorbed 33% staff attrition in the engineering/planning department over 2-years.

FIRM Engineering helps extend the useful life of batteries and other power equipment. It manages DC circuit distribution (fuses and circuit breakers), remotely monitors power assets, then consolidates and standardizes the data collected to reduce planning times and optimize capital expenditures. By optimizing your capacity and increasing your flexibility, your service levels will be improved and crisis management will become more efficient FIRM Engineering helps you make better and faster decisions, boost your department's overall performance, and prevent and/or control crises before they get out of hand. The knowledge it produces empowers you to accurately determine infrastructure improvements and asset funding, making it an invaluable network feedback analysis tool for macro-managing business segments and engineering.

More specifically, FIRM Engineering will enable you to:

• Display information graphically
• Anticipate dates for adding equipment based on load growth trends
• Establish what-if scenarios
• Determine the impact of decisions to replace, add and remove equipment
• Manage power supply, backup fuse supply, fuse assignment and co-location monitoring
• Manage embargoes on full-capacity distribution bays
• Track "out-of-date" requisitions
• Obtain information about fuse positions and loads essential for monitoring critical loads of battery distribution fuse panels
• Display electrical consumption and mechanical usage of supply buildings
• Other department-specific requirements

FIRM Engineering allows you to generate exhaustive on-demand, real-time reports from its data warehouse. Wherever data originates from across the entire network, it is readily accessible and fully configurable for instant processing into standardized or needs-specific reports. Reports can be exported to standard Microsoft Office software programs such as Microsoft Excel or Adobe PDF file for seamless compatibility with most management tools.

Dashboards and real-time power plant views help to optimize the usage of on-site equipment and enable rapid reactions to mission-critical changes.

When needed, FIRM Engineering provides a simplified global view of infrastructure performance and usage ratios. It also provides configurable key performance indicators (KPIs) to notify managers before critical parameters are reached. These indicators are a reliable basis for establishing inventory, cost-effective planning and provisioning.

FIRM's dashboards enable you to:

• Assess your infrastructure's utilization levels on the basis of KPIs
• Measure variation of network assets
• Plan equipment modernization
• Manage risks
• Efficiently perform other engineering tasks