Planned outages require substantial resources but with the right tools they also provide great opportunity for increasing equipment reliability, extending asset life and ensuring production quality and consistency.

4Site software solutions help you develop strategies to manage planned outages through effective project plans, monitoring outage progress and controlling costs. With consolidation of tasks for functionally related equipment and efficient deployment of technicians, you can minimize the outage period while performing all necessary inspections and upgrades.

Compliance with recommended manufacturer maintenance schedules and regulatory requirements in the power generation industry can necessitate using contractors with specialized expertise for both planned outages and production concurrent preventive maintenance activities. In fact outsourcing for both maintenance and capital projects can be an effective tool for business planning, provided that you have the means to control and monitor contractor charges. Selecting a CMMS solution for a power generation facility requires particular care to ensure that contractor management is part of the solution.

A power producer operating several smaller sites faces distinct challenges but also has correspondingly greater opportunities to streamline processes and increase productivity. For example: consolidating of inventory increases purchasing power and reduces warehousing costs; equipping technicians with mobile devices for point of performance information entry increases productivity. The challenge is to eliminate duplication and delay without compromising availability and timely delivery of material and labor resources.

4Site answers these challenges with integrated, browser based mobile solutions, multi-warehouse inventory management, and across the board multi-company processing.

Power generation is all about producing reliable levels of energy, hour after hour, day after day. Unfortunately, power producers have to deal with the real world where equipment fails and technicians may be over-extended. Equipment reliability is possibly the single most important factor in successful plant operation. 4Site's sophisticated analysis and scheduling tools help you look after your assets and manage costs by finding the right balance between too frequent and insufficient preventive maintenance tasks.

Searching for stability in today’s power industry is likely to be unproductive – better to equip yourself with the tools that help you respond quickly and effectively to continuous change. Transformation of the power industry by the latest environmental impact report, developments in emission control, opportunities in cogeneration and emerging technologies demands scalability and easy customization.

4Site offers a functionally rich and affordable alternative to the monolithic and immovable software that has dominated the power industry in the past. With 4Site’s designed-in flexibility, setting up new companies under the organizational umbrella, relocating equipment in your asset database to accurately reflect physical reorganization, customizing data collection and developing specialized reports is all within easy reach.

Competing interests of environmentalists, community groups, shareholders and politicians will continue to accelerate change in the industry. Your organization's ability to respond will determine the outcome.

Cost saving is the watchword for all industries in today’s market, but for many newly constructed or newly independent operations it’s a matter of survival. 4Site gives you the software solutions to manage your maintenance, inventory and purchasing operations, and look after your accounting and financial needs. And all of this at a fraction of the cost of comparable systems. While computerized maintenance management is an effective cost saving tool, matching the CMMS to your needs and your resources is equally important. We understand your needs and our affordable products will not test the limits of your resources.