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Thursday, October 9, 2014
Swaziland’s state-run utility firm, Swaziland Electricity Co. (SEC), will see some headway made in its goal of bringing power to rural areas of the country. SEC signed an agreement with Ventyx, and ABB company, that will see the upgrading of its Ventyx Ellipse work and asset management platform to the latest release to further optimize the management and visibility of its asset infrastructure and the workforce maintaining it.
Swaziland’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Energy has made rural electrification a major priority and the upgrade is part of a major transformation project by SEC to improve power supply, rural electrification, and customer service while minimizing operating costs.
Supported on low-cost technology platforms, the upgraded version of Ventyx Ellipse helps minimize the expense for business process support in key areas of asset and work management, work requests, payroll, rostering, absence management, and employee self-service (ESS). SEC will implement Ellipse Work Planner for advanced maintenance planning to improve asset availability while reducing costs.
“The move to a newer version of Ventyx Ellipse follows 18 years of successfully using the platform to plan, measure, monitor and improve the performance of our power assets,” said Melusi Malinga, Chief Information Officer, SEC. “By upgrading to the latest version, we can continue to use one single, easy-to-use platform for all enterprise resource management functions – offering us significant productivity and cost efficiency gains.”
Head of ABB’s Network Management business unit Jens Birgersson said, “Ventyx shares SEC’s mission to deliver a reliable and safe power supply in a profitable and environmentally safe way. Implementing a proven work and asset management solution like Ellipse will help them achieve this mission amid the challenges of managing extensive operational networks, assets and workforces while expanding the rural distribution network to provide a better quality of life to more of its citizens.”
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