OREANDA-NEWS. November 13, 2007. The goal of business visit by Republican power engineering specialists to United Kingdom was familiarizing with software of IBM Maximo for managing the state of fixed assets in power engineering companies through computerization of maintenance and repair. Managers of the power company familiarized with the industry decision of Maximo, technical and web- characteristics, opportunities and prospects of this resource of IBM. Tatarstan power engineering specialists could study the practical side of implementation of program in various dimension of industry. As part of visitation they visited the Tube Lines, servicing several branches of London tube, and John Laing Integrated Services Ltd, responsible for servicing the part of residential and public sector of the country.

Cooperation of IBM with companies of power complex became the subject of discussions. As part of negotiations the top managers of "Tatenergo" familiarized with expertise of implementation the program Maximo by Data Terminal Equipment (DTE) Energy (USA), and visited the co-generation plant of the company Scottish and Southern energy.

Implementation of IT- technologies in managing the production assets is the world tendency and is actively realized on many companies of the power, oil-gas and chemical industry across the world.

Computerization of production and repair processes on base of the single unified platform allows to the owner of the fixed assets to trace their technical condition and features in real time, to literally plan the actions for servicing and upgrading the facilities. Besides, such innovations reduce the costs for repairs, promote efficient use of resources, as well as enhance the productivity and competitiveness on the market of engineering services.