Accenture Plant and Automation Solutions focuses on four core areas:
Engineering, project and data management
To help our clients better manage large capital-build programs, Accenture has developed a number of core services for engineering, project and data management. These include:
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Process and IT infrastructure to help companies create, modify, share and store information during the entire life cycle of a complex capital project—from licensing, design, procurement, construction, and commissioning through operations and maintenance.
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Project management to help clients evaluate and implement the project structure, governance and stage-gate management processes necessary to deliver large capital projects.
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Intermediary data services to provide staff to manage the data infrastructure as well as conduct data management activities including data acquisition, integration, cleansing, integrity, and contract compliance.
In addition, Accenture brings its management consulting skills including strategy, planning, supply chain management, and enterprise solutions— to complement these core services.
Plant operations
To achieve business performance goals and objectives, companies must operate and maintain their plant and asset investments in a highly efficient and effective manner. Accenture’s Plant Performance Solutions helps companies operate and maintain their plant and asset investments efficiently and effectively.
Accenture's Plant Performance Solutions consists of a combination of plant reliability and performance solutions, maintenance management, supply chain optimization, automation and industrial products. Together they allow our clients to maximize production, improve resource optimization, strengthen maintenance planning, improve costs and facilitate safer operations processes.
Read more about Accenture’s Plant Performance Solutions in Winning the equipment performance battle. [PDF, 306KB]
Many of today's asset operators are facing challenges in developing holistic work and asset management capabilities to successfully meet these challenges and reaching a level of high performance. An effective maintenance strategy and execution is essential to maximizing production, optimizing and supply chain operations.
Accenture has developed an effective work and asset management solution to streamline business processes, improve insight into asset health, optimize maintenance work, balance resources at optimal availability and maximize resource utilization.
Learn about achieving excellence in work and asset management. [PDF, 528KB]
Accenture’s industrial automation capability can help companies achieve plant-to-business integration. As new technologies are introduced and the population ages, many companies have a challenge with knowledge retention and developing new ways of cooperating across physical boundaries.
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Our solutions connect and synchronize the shop floor and the C-suite—helping companies turn production data into useful information through an integrated application of technology in operations.
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Automation technology—Instrumentation, power, control and supervisory systems.
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Production management—Manufacturing execution systems, production information management systems and plant-to-business systems integration.
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Process optimization—Control loop management, brownfield optimization and revitalization, and overall equipment effectiveness.
Learn more about unleashing value at the core. [PDF, 906KB]
Learn more about integrating the plant floor with the overall enterprise for high performance. [PDF, 195KB]
Environment, health and safety
Accenture has a global network of environment, health and safety (EH&S) experts and management consultants who collaborate with clients to drive bottom-line improvements in environment, health and safety performance. By combining deep EH&S insights with Accenture’s leading knowledge and experience in strategy, process improvement, technology, supply chain management, talent and organizational effectiveness, we focus on effectiveness and efficiency improvements at site and organizational levels. Accenture collaborates with clients to address their specific concerns by:
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Developing a comprehensive health function.
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Addressing the full range of occupational-health, industrial-hygiene and incident-management activities.
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Creating green supply chains and sustainable procurement processes.
Delivering business value such as increased revenue, improved costs and lower risk.
Read our point of view on transforming the employee health function. [PDF, 925KB]
Enabling Services
Accenture collaborates with utilities companies to bring order and reliability to the management of the flood of data with enabling services. We work with companies to develop comprehensive data management strategies and systematic approaches that are aligned with an organization's people, processes and technology.
Our approach assesses current and desired capabilities and defines how an organization can manage and store its data, taking into account such factors as organization structure, roles and responsibilities, processes and policies, data models and governance.
We also help make data more meaningful through the use of real-time analytic solutions. And we can develop an implementation road map and provide change management programs to help clients adapt to new ways of doing business.
Our enabling services help our clients by providing long term support services, such as outsourcing, so that they can focus on differentiating, value-driven core activities. Our services comprise:
- Investment and Construction Support Services. These are relevant services for clients making new CAPEX or renewal investments—both greenfield and brownfield. Examples of this type of work include: PMO support services, licensing, document management for handover/commissioning and support services for consortium management.
- Operational Support Services. These services are relevant to plant day-to-day operations. They encompass services ranging from supply chain operations support, analytics, asset management, plant maintenance, life safety, as well as more traditional back office-type services like finance and accounting, learning, procurement and human resources.
- IT and Data Management Services. These services focus on four areas:
- IT application and infrastructure outsourcing.
- Data quality services, including profiling and cleansing.
- Basic data maintenance services, including master data management.
- Advanced data enrichment services to support asset register or product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions for the full lifecycle of data.
All of these are supported by a scalable operating model based on our global delivery network.