Centralizing control centers: electricidade de Portugal S.A. rolls out integrated SCADA/DMS platform

摘要

Electricidade de Portugal, S.A. (EDP), like many electric utilities around the world, faces the challenge to reduce life-cycle cost, increase customer value and improve flexibility in operation and services. To achieve this goal, EDP has embarked on a computer system integration that spans the various forms of data and services dispersed in many business processes. Computer-based applications have been growing in complexity and interdependence over the last decade. Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and other technical computing applications must interface with the corporation's information and business activities. The challenge is to ensure that the selected system survives the introduction, replacement or removal of any integrated application, without repeating the "ten year buy everything" cycle of the past.