October 2, 2008 - Invensys Process Systems (IPS) signed a multi-million dollar contract with Maire Tecnimont Group to supply distributed control systems (DCS) and solutions for two coal-fired power stations currently under construction in Chile.
Under the terms of the deal, IPS will provide and install its InFusion enterprise control system technology at the Colbun Coronel and Endesa Bocamina II coal power plants, both of which are based in Coronel, Chile. The company will also supply associated hardware, project management, applications development, final project implementation and deployment services.
"Our innovative solution allows multiple, interdependent units across multiple sites and multiple automation domains to operate as one integrated system that provides real-time business intelligence," said Paolo Morerio, Senior Client Sales Executive with IPS Italia.
IPS will deploy an international team of experts to oversee the project. IPS Italia will supply the project manager, project director, hardware specialist and technical leader. IPS Chile will supply the technical leader and application engineers. Initial application work will be carried out by the team in Chile, who will then move to the Tecnimont office in Torino to develop final applications alongside Tecnimont's own project staff.
"We expect a significant improvement of the efficiency of the design and implementation of the control system through the cooperation of a strong Chilean component alongside the Italian one within the IPS team and the integration of their team with our own during the critical phase of software development," said a representative of Tecnimont's Automation Engineering department.
Each of the new plant's power islands will be made up of one steam generator and one steam turbine generator block. The plants will have an output of approximately 370 megawatts each.
About IPS (Invensys Process Systems)
Invensys Process Systems (IPS), headquartered in Plano, Texas, is a global technology, software and consulting firm leading significant change in process manufacturing, plant optimisation, business operations and enterprise performance. IPS clients are some of the world's most important industrial organisations -- companies that operate large oil refineries; plants that process chemicals, gas, LNG, power, pharmaceutical and minerals; and pulp and paper mills. IPS solutions, used at over 50,000 locations across the globe, include field devices and controls from Foxboro and Triconex, advanced applications from SimSci-Esscor, operations management from Avantis, and the world's first truly open enterprise control system, InFusion.
The company's nearly 7,000 employees integrate these capabilities to create solutions that impact and increase efficiency, boost productivity, and accelerate performance. These results help industrial companies run safer, operate more efficiently, and extract useful knowledge from their operations to make faster, better decisions.
The Invensys Group is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (ISYS.L), with approximately 25,000 employees working in 60 countries.
