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UTILITY WEEK | 4TH - 10TH MAY 2018 | 23 Operations & Assets the coast, a reactive compensa tion station will also be installed between the windfarm and the shore – a first for an offshore windfarm. The 1.2GW Hornsea Project One will be the world's biggest windfarm when it is operational in 2020, taking the record from Orsted's Walney Extension windfarm, whose final turbine was also installed last week. If you have an asset or project you would like to see featured in this slot, email: paulnewton@ fav-house.com. T wo of the key areas where all companies involved in the E&U value chain can make significant cost savings, increased customer service and regulatory compliance is through improved Planning, Scheduling and Optimisation (PSO) and a realtime under standing of location. The PSO solution from IFS is designed to enable an organ isation to manage its mobile workforce more efficiently, facilitating higher productivity and improved adherence to customer commitments. One of the major components of the solution is the Dynamic Sched uling Engine (DSE), which deals with all of the goals and constraints involved in work execution and delivers the best solution to the business. Since the DSE is continu ously optimising, searching through all the possible solu tions, it is a form of machine learning and artificial intel ligence (AI). PSO is implemented in a number of energy compa nies and in April 2018 one of Norway's leading providers of technical services for critical infrastructure, Eltel, selected IFS Field Service Management and PSO to help strengthen its position as a leading supplier to this sector. Five hundred field technicians will be added to the system to help optimise the way they work, help the company to engage in continu ous improvement and facilitate winning interactions with all customers. In respect of improvements in managing location we devel oped a seamless bidirectional integration with the ArcGIS solution from Esri some years back allowing companies to benefit from bidirectional navigation between the map and the data record in our Enterprise Asset Management solution. Our solution has been live at Portsmouth Water for some years and in recent develop ments the streetworks noticing and geolocating of the work to be executed has been implemented in the solution. The resultant improvements in identifying the area to be dug up in the field, and then passing that information via enoticing to the local authority without recourse to admin staff needing to review drawings and data in the back office, will prove valuable Esri ArcGIS visualisation is directly embedded within IFS applications and the user is able to navigate seamlessly between the two systems. Data is synchronised between the systems and the open archi tecture of both applications ensures this is a simple, reli able and repeatable process. In the operations world the IFS Mobile Work Order (MWO) solution is used together with a complementary mobile GIS solution using ArcGIS for Windows Mobile 10.2. This has been configured, designed and built for the customer and includes integration with IFS MWO. For further information visit: www.ifsworld.com EXPERT VIEW COLIN BEANEY, GLOBAL INDUSTRY DIRECTOR – ENERGY AND UTILITIES, IFS Delivering efficiency improvements through optimal management of location and resource planning IFS is a sponsor of Utility Week Live, 22-23 May, Birmingham

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