At Marly, near Valenciennes, "Mitsubishi Equipement Europe France (MEEF)" has adopted the SQL Server version of Trace Elec Pro for quite a unique project, in terms of amplitude and complexity. With more than 15 000 drawing sheets or folios, the central electricity Kounoune project near Dakkar, at Senegal could test the flexibility of a tool and its capacity to function in a real-time multi-user environment.
The Marly site studies, installs and maintains generators supplying electricity to social accommodations, factories, hospitals, and cogeneration i.e. combined heat and power (CHP) plants.
Electrical and automation studies, are conducted at Coquelles by five people. Two people work full-time on Trace Elec Pro, who have accomplished more than ten projects since the purchase of the software in 2004.
At the end of the year 2004, the engineering consulting firm takes up a radically new project and decides to opt for the SQL Server version of Trace Elec Pro for an optimum performance with respect to sharing data and modifications in real time among many users. The Kounoune center which was to be renovated in 2007 required 9 additional generators of 200 tonnes each, with output of 67,5 MW.
The installation design and commission would take one and a half years, and the use of Trace Elec Pro is stretched to its limits: more than 15 000 folios for single-line diagrams management, High-voltage systems, bus-bars, different distribution networks, cable scheduling, and PLC inputs/outputs lists - these lists alone represent 2000 folios - Installation testing notes for the ground staff at the installation site, thus all the project elements are brought together. A highly-evolved operation from Trace Elec Pro calculates the cable lengths to be ordered and hence enabled to establish that 80Km of cables was necessary.
Paul Lebrun, project manager, especially appreciates the open aspect of different customizable options of Trace Elec Pro. "In hindsight, with respect to other software, it's the open feature that I like. A lot of advancements with the tools is what I wanted. The databases are accessible. We configure it according to what we needed so that it resembles our standards, and we could do what we wanted to."
It is a network CAD which is now installed around Trace Elec Pro and the consulting firm now aims at interfacing with a PLC programming system. M. Lebrun concludes : " At the beginning, we were not thinking of working in a network, but now, Trace Elec Pro has become indispensable, we need it at all cost, we could not do without it".
The 9 generators and alternators, weighing 200 tonnes,
standing 20m tall, an equivalent of three floors : to be installed in 2007
A part of the control room with control command cabinets
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