Power Transmission and Distribution

AUCOTEC has been developing software for the energy sector for over 30 years. For a long time now, the PTD working group initiated and overseen by AUCOTEC has been working together with customers and partners – all experienced energy experts – to drive innovation and develop guidelines that have been adopted as standards in Germany. All this experience and practice-oriented thinking has been invested in our Engineering Base platform. The software content demonstrates this to impressive effect, as do the many best-practice examples from around the world. Engineering Base thereby helps engineering projects to advance, while also bringing us closer to the sustainable future so crucial to us all. Time is not just money here; it also affects future quality of life for everyone.

From the initial project idea through to plant operation, our Engineering Base platform provides a foundation for greater sustainability and lower operating costs. This is because it offers more than just a snapshot of a plant under construction or in operation. The digital twin in Engineering Base is 'born' long before the real-life, physical twin. Its data model forms the basis for the planning and development work carried out by all the engineering disciplines involved, as well as for the construction and finally the operation of the plant, because it evolves with the plant and therefore always reflects its current as-built status. This highly digitized documentation is therefore always the root or center of all knowledge about the plant. Its inestimable value, the cumulative result of vast amounts of expertise, is retained throughout the plant's entire life cycle.

All areas of engineering – from primary and secondary equipment to protection and control technology – have access to this single source of truth; any further, discipline-specific detailing is immediately visible to all other specialists and can continue to be processed directly. Waiting, liaising and searching are no longer; everyone works together, cooperatively and in parallel on the same model. Consistent data validity is achieved very easily in this way – without any duplicate entries or manual data transfers, and therefore without the error-fixing and extra work these require.