EGNATIA ODOS SA AWARDS
OUTSOURCED ROAD
MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS
BASED ON REGIONAL SECTIONS
OF THE HIGHWAY. THESE ARE
CURRENTLY ALLOCATED INTO
FOUR SECTIONS, EACH HAVING
RESPONSIBILITY TO MANAGE
AND MAINTAIN THE ASSETS
SUCH AS BRIDGES, ROAD
SIGNS, ISSUING OF WORK
REPAIR NOTICES, AS WELL
AS MONITORING ALL WORK.
THESE REGIONAL
MAINTENANCE OFFICES
ARE COORDINATED THROUGH
A CENTRAL GENERAL
ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM
BASED AT EGNATIA'S HQ
IN THESSALONIKI.
LOCATIONAL REFERENCING
SYSTEM (LRS): EXOR'S
ADVANCED LINEAR
REFERENCING CAPABILITY
THAT INCLUDES NETWORK
CONNECTIVITY, MULTIPLE
LINEAR REFERENCING AND
FLEXIBLE, USER-CREATED
VIEWS OF THE ROAD NETWORK.
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME A
COMPREHENSIVE ASSET
MANAGEMENT SOLUTION FOR
A HIGHWAY NETWORK HAS
BEEN IMPLEMENTED IN
GREECE. GINNA KARAKAIDOU,
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR,
ROAD NETWORK SUPPORT
DEPARTMENT AT EGNATIA ODOS
SA EXPLAINS THE NEEDS AND
DEMANDS OF SETTING UP AN
ASSET MANAGEMENT TOOL;
" THERE WERE NO BENCHMARKS
TO WORK WITH. SO, THERE
WAS A NEED FOR A SYSTEM
THAT COMBINED MODULARITY,
SCALABILITY AND FAST
IMPLEMENTATION. EXOR'S
SOFTWARE WAS SELECTED,
AS THEY WERE ABLE TO
DEMONSTRATE THEIR
PROVEN ABILITY.
" OUR MAINTENANCE
DEPARTMENT LOOKED AT
BENCHMARKING OTHER
SIMILAR PROJECTS AND,
WITH THE HELP OF EXOR'S
CONSULTANCY SERVICES AND
EXPERT GUIDANCE, BASED
OUR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
ON THE UK'S HIGHWAYS
AGENCY METHODOLOGY. EXOR
PERSONNEL AND THE IT STAFF
OF EGNATIA ENSURED THAT
SPECIFIC ADAPTATIONS WERE
INCLUDED TO MEET OUR OWN
NETWORK REQUIREMENTS.
THIS CROSS TRANSFER OF
INTELLECTUAL KNOWLEDGE
AND INDUSTRY EXPERTISE
HAS PROVEN INVALUABLE."
FLEXIBLE DATA STRUCTURES:
THE ABILITY FOR USERS TO
DEFINE NEW ASSET TYPES AND
ASSOCIATED ATTRIBUTES
WITHOUT LIMIT AND WITHOUT
PROGRAMMING YET FULLY
SUPPORTED BY EXOR.
ASSIGNMENT OF GENERIC
CONDITION ASSESSMENTS,
COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH
CAPITAL AND REHABILITATION
PROJECTS AND TO ASSIGN UNIT
COST VALUES TO ACTIVITIES.
MANAGEMENT REPORTING:
GENERIC QUERY AND
REPORTING FACILITIES
UNDER USER CONTROL.
FUTURE PROOFED: THE ABILITY
TO OPERATE CLIENT/SERVER
OR OVER INTRANET, EXTRANET,
INTERNET ENVIRONMENTS.
THIS PROJECT DEMONSTRATES
EXOR'S ABILITY TO WORK
ACROSS INTERNATIONAL
BOUNDARIES BUT ALSO HOW
ROBUST ITS TECHNOLOGY IS
IN TERMS OF ITS SCALABILITY
ON LARGE AND VERY COMPLEX
PROJECTS, SUCH AS EGNATIA.
EGNATIA ODOA SA:
A COLLISION OF HISTORY
WITH THE ELECTRONIC
21ST CENTURY
GINNA KARAKAIDOU,
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
ROAD NETWORK
SUPPORT DEPARTMENT,
EGNATIA ODOS SA,
GREECE
You are in an apparently impossible situation. You
have increasingly limited resources and yet more is
expected. You have less money but if you under-fund
preventative maintenance today you simply increase
significantly the replacement expense and financial
liability tomorrow.
You have some brilliant, experienced engineers
working for you but many of them will be retiring in
the next decade. Your decisions hinge entirely on the
calibre and nature of the information you have at your
disposal. So if the data in front of you is incomplete
or incoherent, you expose yourself to the risk of
costly errors. So there has never been a time when the
quality of your decision making has mattered more.
This seems obvious. And yet, assets in many towns,
cities, states and even countries are being managed
in the absence of a complete, coherent perspective.
Exor is not a panacea to remedy the ills of the world's
transport infrastructure but we can make a huge
impact on your decisions and their consequences.
We make software for civil engineers that help
you manage your infrastructure and assets more
efficiently, cost-effectively and predictably.
Others can do this, but only Exor brings all your
data together in one place, regardless of where it
is stored, in a language and format you can make
immediate sense of. We can help you establish
a policy of responsible governance, simply by
presenting your data in a different way.
We can help you overcome funding difficulties.
We can help you capture the experience of your
best people so that it is not lost forever when
they leave or retire. We can even help you plan
for unpredictable future scenarios based on what
you know about the past. We can help you stop
wasting money and make your cash go further.
This is a lot to promise and a lot to live up to, but
we have twenty years of continual improvement
to support our claims. We have some of the largest
and most demanding clients in the world but you
don't need to be big to adopt the Exor way of
working. You can be two or two thousand strong.
You just need to want a single view of what you've
got and what's happening to it.
It's hard to see the
big picture when
you can't see the
whole picture.
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EGNATIA ODOS SA, USES EXOR
TO MANAGE THE ASSETS ON
ITS 680 KM OF HIGHWAYS,
INCLUDING 1650 INDIVIDUAL
BRIDGES, 74 TUNNELS AND
SOME OF GREECE'S TOUGHEST
TERRAIN, INCLUDING AREAS
VIEWED AS THE MOST
SEISMICALLY ACTIVE ON
THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT.
WORLD CLASS LINEAR
ASSET MANAGEMENT
SOLUTIONS ARE CRITICAL
TO ITS MAINTENANCE.
THE GREEK STATE-OWNED
COMPANY, EGNATIA ODOS
SA, SOUGHT TO APPOINT A
SOFTWARE PROVIDER WITH
REGIONAL KNOWLEDGE AS
WELL AS WORLD LEADING
TECHNOLOGY. ROUTINE
MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM (RMMS), A
COMPREHENSIVE ASSET
MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
SUITE PROVIDED BY EXOR,
HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY
DEPLOYED.