Westernacher

Operation Control Cockpit (OCC)

Integrated Plant Management with SAP/JAVA Technology

National and international energy markets have undergone dynamic changes in the past years. Production and distribution of electricity, gas, oil and fuel are highly profitable business areas. New technical, political and judicial basic conditions offer new business perspectives especially for small and medium sized companies. To make use of the new opportunities existent resources are optimized and additional resources are built up with new investments. For the latter joint ventures and mergers are arranged. In this environment a well structured, technical efficient and informationally transparent plant management is a decisive criterion for the economic success. For this task Westernacher offers its product solution OCC Operation Control Cockpit as a SAP/JAVA Web-Application for the plant management of power plants, networks and infrastructure.

OCC Capability Characteristics

• A highly transpartent plant management process for operationally responsible personnel as well as decision makers.
• Accelerated business process with comprehensive insight into technical and commercial data.
• Process-based workflow represented in various registers based on order status and editor role.
• Mapping of the corporate language and organisation.
• Order management for different order types, e.g. repair, maintenance, special projects (e.g. revisions) and investment activities.
• Flexible definition of role-specific views with registers and editing functions.
• Improved productivity and simple handling through reduction of the range of data and functions needed for the actual work step.
• Powerful reporting functionality for the structured monitoring of costs and budgets based on the SAP List Viewer.
• Implemented Backend: SAP Project System (business-object: network activity).
• Long-run stable, standardized interface architecture.

OCC System Architecture.

The OCC system architecture is divided into 4 levels (top-down sequence in the grafic).

• Level 1: OCC presentation as a web-client with an ergonomic user interface
• Level 2: OCC application logic, implemented in the OCC application server
• Level 3: SAP business logic, data exchange with BAPI function modules
• Level 4: SAP data level