Utility Week

UTILITY WEEK | 17TH - 23RD NOVEMBER 2017 | 17 Operations & Assets on budget and with around 90 per cent of the contracts placed with British companies – almost all in Yorkshire and the north. Knottingley is the third river hydro scheme that Barn Energy has built in Yorkshire over the past three years. Its Kirkthorpe scheme on the River Calder near Wakefield opened earlier this year, and its Thrybergh scheme, on the River Don near Rotherham, opened in 2015. If you have an asset or project you would like to see featured in this slot, email: paulnewton@ fav-house.com. is set to bring the back office team much closer to the mobile workforce, who are armed with Kirona's Job Manager mobile to guide the delivery of their work. DRS enables them to ensure each task within a line of Reinstatement is fulfilled in time and in sequence of any related or dependent activity. Neil Harvey, CTO of Kirona said: "Balfour Beatty had a detailed outline of their business requirements. We worked closely with the Balfour Beatty Business to understand their requirements, and then deliver a fully integrated solution that is both flex- ible and scalable to cater to the needs of a range of services across their Gas and Water business." Balfour Beatty also imple- mented Kirona's InfoSuite management information prod- uct to complement the mobile workforce management and Dynamic Resource Scheduling solutions. InfoSuite provides the com- pany with real-time actionable insights. Balfour Beatty's oper- ational management teams have the visibility of progress and performance information to enable them to react to chal- lenges before customer service is impacted. For further information, visit: http://www.kirona.com EXPERT VIEW LARAINE GEDDES, DIRECTOR, KIRONA Balfour Beatty streamlines job management and workforce scheduling with Kirona Balfour Beatty is working with field service management specialist Kirona to improve workforce productivity and streamline processes in its gas and water business. Balfour Beatty wanted to bring a fully integrated mobile work- force management and sched- uling solution to two areas of its gas and water business. Cheshire-based Kirona worked with Balfour Beatty to con- figure its leading field service soware; Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) and Job Manager Soware to enable the company to achieve its business objectives. Kirona was selected by Balfour Beatty to enable improvements in two key areas of its gas and water business; Purge & Relight and Reinstatement. For the Purge & Relight business, it set out to streamline the pro- cess of raising work by having jobs cre- ated by the operatives in the field. Using Kirona's Job Manager Mobile soware, the operatives raise the require- ment for a Purge and Relight Job from site, which is imme- diately visible to its back office team who interface with the Job Manager Control Centre. Kirona's Dynamic Resource Scheduling application ensures that the requirements of each job are met in accordance with their SLAs. Kirona has also delivered a solution which not only replaces Balfour Beatty's legacy systems, but brings the best of Mobile Working and Scheduling technologies to the delivery of its Reinstatement business. The introduction of a fully integrated Work Manage- ment and Scheduling solution HARVEY: "A fully integrated solution that is both flexible and scalable"

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