Mission Possible! 2010-11 kicks off with a bang for WRENCH!

The second decade of the millennium began with a high-octane celebration that was an eye-opener, launch pad, annual report, and really really good time all rolled into one. A warm welcome address from Varghese Daniel (CEO) set the stage for a colourful day that will be long remembered. It was great to see our hardworking colleagues let down their hair for some good old-fashioned FUN! Creativity blossomed, as various WRENCHineers experimented with karaoke, followed by some truly enjoyable "fusion songs ", courtesy Jis Joy, Achuthanathan, Ganesh, Shibu, Jojo, Nikhil, Deepthy and Bibina - thanks guys, for showing us the "artistic side " of WRENCH! And thanks to the DJ (who encouraged us to burn up the floor later on with some absolutely rocking music) and to all the outstation associates who came in specially for the occasion. We had a wonderful opportunity to meet and mingle, especially with new members of the WRENCH family. Vincent Chia (APAC Director) was MC for the day and kept us lively with his inimitable wit and sense of humour, and formally welcomed latest addition Rex Chee (Project Consultant) into the fold. A lavish cocktail dinner ended the event in style. It was a also a time of reflection and inspiration, as CEO Varghese Daniel helped us look back at the achievements of the past year before setting forth our goals for the coming one. As a team, we now step forward with renewed hope, enthusiasm, and confidence — that in 2011 we will look back and say "Mission Accomplished! "

Murray & Roberts, a leading construction giant in South Africa chooses Wrench Enterpsie as their mainstream Enterprise data management system.
They will use Wrench as main stream system and Aconex as upstream system to interface with the client.

Wrench's proven capability to produce enhanced reporting in dashboards rather than the tedious process of manual report generation, aided Wrench in choosing WRENCH over Acconex as the main stream system. With the introduction of Wrench, delays in generating key performance charts will be eliminated and will open up the gates for an easy data transfer. Wrench also will enforce the quality management processes and also ensure corporate standardisation across all projects.

About Murray & Roberts:

Murray & Roberts is South Africa's leading engineering, contracting and construction services company.

It has created employment, developed skills, installed infrastructure, delivered services, applied technology and built capacity throughout South and Southern Africa for 107 years, making a significant contribution to sustainable socio-economic development in the region.

Murray & Roberts operates in Southern Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australasia and North and South America from its home-base in Johannesburg South Africa, where it has a public listing on the JSE Limited. It has an international coordinating office in the United Kingdom and principle offices in Australia, Botswana, Canada, Namibia, United Arab Emirates and Zimbabwe.

www.murrob.com

The first UAE-based seminar of WRENCH Enterprise took place on 28th February 2010 at the Knowledge Village, Dubai. It was organized by WRENCH partner infraCAD. The seminar concentrated on EPC critical business issues and challenges, and their impact on the neverending ‘race to completion’ faced by every project company today. Seminar participants included leading contractors, engineering and construction organizations, local government agencies and prominent design consultants of UAE. Agenda   8.45 am Registration & Coffee 9.00 am Welcome Address (Varghese Daniel - WRENCH Solutions, Majo Varghese - InfraCAD Solutions) 9.10 am How WRENCH impacts your business (Vincent Chia, Marketing Director, WRENCH Solutions) 9.30 am Working with WRENCH: A customer testimonial by Rajasekhara Menon, Engineering Manager of CHALMERS Engineering CO. (LLC) 10.00 am   Break 10.20 am Demo - on Wrench (Varghese Daniel, Solutions Director, WRENCH Solutions) 11.30 am Q & A Session and closing 12.00 pm Session Adjourns Feedback: Participants were asked to fill out a short questionnaire after the seminar, to assess their satisfaction with the presentation content, the event and facilities of the seminar overall, as well as comments on WRENCH itself. “I was impressed with the presentation in that i have seen that Wrench could integrate with various other software used within a business. This increases the likelihood of being accepted by senior managers. Workflows provide opportunity to work seamlessly with outsourcing centers in a systematic and controlled manner”- Eben Pieters of WSP All participants were satisfied given that in Abu Dhabi the event was delayed due to heavy traffic. Seeing a system like Wrench, which they have never seen before, and hear WRENCH successfully deployed through real customer presentations by CHALMERS Engineering and CH2MHILL VECO Engineering. Participants from Mott MacDonald and Parsons invited us over to their offices for more detailed analysis of their business processes which Wrench could potential impact. Hyder Consulting gave full marks to the Event Log: Heavy storms had lashed Dubai the day before the event and this led to some roads being blocked. We received text messages from people who were stranded in the rain for more than 8 hours before being rescued by the police. The number of participants exceeded our expectations – we were pleasantly surprised to see people from WSP (leading consultant), RTA (government agency), and Lamprell (offshore contractor) attending. An introduction was given by our marketing director Vincent Chia, followed by the Chalmers customer testimonial about WRENCH. Rajasekhara Menon of Chalmers said that WRENCH is the one reliable system available today where all engineering information is available for all users - with 100% uptime in a single location. He said that WRENCH was very useful leveraged in a ‘worksharing’ project situation, as the teams felt like their Indian office was right next door, thanks to WRENCH. This was followed by a detailed product demo by Varghese Daniel.

Lean methodology based’ system WRENCH enterprise™ will soon drive project lifecycle management for one of India’s top business conglomerates, Lanco Infratech. A member of the UN Global Compact, Lanco has made a mark in verticals like construction, power, EPC, infrastructure, property development, and renewable energy. Lanco’s projects (in operation and under construction) represent over 8000 MW and the company is recognized today as a growing power trading leadership.

WRENCH™ was chosen over several other popular EDMS products after a rigorous evaluation, and will be implemented immediately on four of Lanco’s ongoing large power projects (totaling 6700 MW capacity). This first phase implementation is estimated to take about two months, after which Lanco will roll WRENCH™ out on nine more projects which are in the construction phase, and on several completed projects on a priority basis.

Lanco chose WRENCH™ because it outdistanced the competition with its efficiency-first model for project management and its emphasis on optimization and streamlining of the entire process. Since it is completely custom-built for the power project industry, WRENCH™ provided a unique mix of intelligent automation and flexibility which fitted in very well with Lanco’s requirements.

Lanco’s I.T. department opted for WRENCH because it could be seamlessly integrated with the existing infrastructure, which includes Primavera, SAP and MS Exchange.

“Over a decade of catering to turnkey project companies, including power giants like BHEL, has given us invaluable insights into how these companies work and what their pain points are, what their needs are. We have spent many years in fine-tuning our software to fulfill those needs fully and systematically, without adding the burden of yet another complex or impractical piece of technology.” said Varghese Daniel, Director of WRENCH Solutions in India.

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SOFCON Group, a Saudi owned group of companies specialized in providing quality Engineering Design and complete range of Program Management, Procurement, Construction and Environmental Services choose to implement WRENCH-Enterprise integrated with Primavera P6 Enterprise. They are a major GES contractor with Saudi Aramco, Saudi Electric Company, Sabic Group of Companies, etc, the group has executed a large number of detailed engineering works for prestigious projects.

The areas of operation include Power, Telecommunication, Pipelines, Petroleum Refineries, Water, Petrochemical, Oil & Gas, Process, Offshore and Onshore Structures and Platforms. The Group provides the complete range of services needed to conceptualize, design, procure and construct projects to meet the specific requirements of various clients.

Wrench-Enterprise will be implemented on a fast track mode on the current running projects to help the management monitor the projects in realtime, produce real time reports, management dashboards and reports for optimum utilisation of resources.

Dubai, UAE, 05 May 2010: WRENCH Solutions today announced a strategic partnership with Collaboration, Management & Control Solutions (CMCS) to provide their unique technology to the construction and EPC industry in the Middle East & North Africa. The solution, WRENCH | enterprise™, helps organizations achieve project deliverables by automating project workflows, compliance, collaboration, and document management, to name a few, and will revolutionise the way such organizations manage their project lifecycle from engineering/procurement to close-out phases.

"Our existing and new clients will get a boon with WRENCH as today’s construction projects become more complex and tighter deliverable schedules. These companies using or planning to use complementary software like Primavera®, MS/Project®, MS/Office®, AutoCAD®, will benefit from WRENCH's integrated process flow. Our target clients will be to EPC Contractors, General Contractors, Clients and Engineering Firms.We now can offer a more comprehensive suite with our EPPM solutions by showing the Steps and Documents at the activity level which we can do as of now. But WRENCH will be the tool to take it further who wants to better monitor and control project deliverables." Bassam Samman, CEO and Founder CMCS

“We are pleased to be working with the region's premier project management solution provider, CMCS as a strategic partner, CMCS is known for their professional services and support centres across the Middle East and Africa. We thus are able to extend our support to corporations seeking to streamline their operations and projects in this region.” Daniel Varghese, CEO Wrench Solutions.

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CMCS is a leading Dubai-based provider of total project management solutions and offers Project, Portfolio and Risk Management Information Solutions for successful delivery of organizations' strategies. http://www.cmcs-int.com

ePETROL SERVICES SDN BHD, the Malaysian listed DIALOG owned group of companies specialized in providing quality Engineering Design and complete range of Program Management, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning choose to implement WRENCH-Enterprise for their operational capabilities. DIALOG E&C is a major contractor in the oil & gas infrastructure industry.

The areas of operation include Petrochemical storage and refineries. The Group provides the complete range of services needed to conceptualize, design, procure and construct projects to meet the specific requirements of various clients.

WRENCH-Enterprise will be implemented on the current running projects to help the management monitor the projects in real time dynamic reports, management dashboards and reports for optimum utilisation of resources.

With existing projects been stopped and with fewer new project, Habtoor Leighton Group(HLG) is looking at the downturn as an opportunity to reorganize the existing processes and with a vision of becoming more competitive by improving the efficiency in project execution and reducing possible wastage by ensuring quality. Wrench-Enterprise was selected after a detailed evaluation done over a period of 6 months against product such as Aconex, conjuct and other entry level DMS system by the team from HLG corporate IT and functional team. Wrench-Enterprise will be deployed at the Corporate Office and across its Sites in UAE during the initial phase of implementation and then to all project sites across middle east and other regions.

Wrench-Enterprise will be implemented at the project site with the application server and the vault maintained at site to prevent possible issues due to internet connectivity failures. This site server will be connected to the Corporate central server and data will be replicated during off peak hours. Project stake holders can now access any project data online and all activities will be handled electronically and approval process will be automated through the digital workflow facility available in WRENCH-Enterprise. The project resources can access their To-Do-List in WRENCH-Ent and execute their work and the status and information will be captured online. Delayed activities will be notified and will be escalated if delay is beyond the accepted duration. All transaction (Correspondences, RFI, Transmittals etc.,) send to and received from Client, vendors and Sub contractors will be handled through WRENCH and the complete transaction with its history will be available online. With the Implementation of WRENCH-Enterprise Habtoor Leighton group will have all project data online and have a system that will ensure all schedules are completed as planned. The implementation of WRENCH for Site 611 (JAFZA Convention centre, valued at 1.6 Billion AED) is expected to be completed in 6 weeks duration by a 3 member from WRENCH Solutions and a 3 members from Habtoor Leighton Group.

About Habtoor Leighton Group: ( www. www.habtoorengg.ae)

Al Habtoor Engineering has grown into one of the largest construction companies in the Middle East, undertaking major projects throughout the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere. These include high-rise structures, mixed use developments, manufacturing units, airports, hotels, sports stadiums and arenas, entertainment facilities, retail facilities, public buildings and other diversified civil works. The company's highly qualified, experienced and professional team comprises an ever-growing multi-national workforce that totals over 35,000 employees.

On 1 September 2007, Leighton International, part of the Leighton Group, Australia's largest project development and contracting group, merged its operations in the Arabian Gulf region with Al Habtoor Engineering to create one of the largest multi-disciplined contracting groups in the Gulf - The Al Habtoor Leighton Group, in which the Al Habtoor Group holds a significant stake. Combining the strengths and expertise of two excellent companies, the objective of the Al Habtoor Leighton Group is to become one of the world's top 50 contractors in the field of large-scale infrastructure developments. Today, the Al Habtoor Leighton Group is one of the Middle East's leading construction and engineering companies - it ranks first in the field of building construction, proposing viable solutions as final products from engineering designs through adept project management and optimised construction completion.

Between 1990 and 1999, the rush to modernity became a torrent and Al Habtoor Engineering turned dreams into reality. Oil field facilities, the Dubai Crowne Plaza, the Armed Forces Officers' Club, the Jumeirah Beach Development (incorporating the Jumeirah Beach Hotel and Burj Al Arab) and numerous hotels and commercial buildings were the centrepieces of Al Habtoor Engineering's project diary. Strategic alliances became part of the business plan, especially for more demanding and technically complicated briefs. Other projects include the Burjuman Centre Shopping Mall, Terminal 3 Dubai International Airport, Jumeirah Beach Residence (8 high-rise towers), Business Bay (12 high-rise towers) and a number of single tower and villa complexes.

About Wrench Solutions (www.wrenchepc.com)

Wrench-Enterprise has evolved from the industry over a period of 15 years working with leading engineering organization and has their best practices. Wrench Solutions has been recognized for its innovation by Department science and technology, Govt of India and has funded it.

WRENCH-Enterprise is a proven integrated end-to-end I.T system which offers facility for Project monitoring, Resource management, Quality management, Engineering data management, Information security and knowledge management. Wrench-Enterprise is an integrated Project lifecycle management system which has been successfully implemented in leading Engineering companies in the Oil&Gas, Energy, Water and waste management, Infrastructure, Multi storey buildings, Industrial machinery and equipments etc., such as Ch2MHill VECO, Khatib & Alami, Metito Overseas LLC, L&T, Qatar Design Consortium, Simon Carves etc.,

Wrench Solutions in association with Al Majed Technologies have conducted a seminar on Project Life cycle Management System on 15th Feb 2009 at The Marriot Hotel, Qatar. The seminar provided insights on how turnkey project success can be achieved by monitoring projects in real-time, with emphasis on resource optimization, online collaboration, and enforced quality processes.

WRENCH has been successfully implemented in Al Habtoor Leighton's 1.9 billion AED Jafza project in a record 3 weeks. Wrench-Enterprise was selected after a detailed evaluation done over a period of 6 months against product such as Aconex and other entry level DMS system by the team from HLG corporate IT and functional team.

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Gulf Marine Services: A single platform for access to documents, enforced process for managing bulk vendor documents in the most optimum fashion, keeping trail of all project correspondences automatically; all this achieved by implementing Wrench Enterprise in 3 months.

Simon Carves,UK extends Wrench implementation to their newly setup engineering office in Abudhabi which integrates with their corporate office located in UK and other Engineering office located in India and Singapore to cater to Middle East market.

Chalmers Engineering, Dubai expands Wrench implementation to their newly setup offshore engineering office in India as a part of going lean. The Wrench-Enterprise here is integrated with their corporate server located in Dubai for handling work share projects and enables real-time collaboration.

Godrej- PED Division is involved in Engineering and manufacturing large Process Equipments (such as Head exchangers, Pressure vessels etc.,) for the process plants on a turnkey basis. Process Equipments are mostly custom build as per the specific requirements of the client. Godrej-PED has gone online on WRENCH Enterprise™ by putting all their active projects (119 projects as on date). The existing data from all these projects were imported and system was declared online. The configuration, implementation, migration of legacy data and training to all the resources was completed in a period of 3 months and after a one month trial the system was declared online. The application is now been integrated with their BAAN ERP system and will be extended to their manufacturing units located outside mumbai in the next 1-2 months time.

VA TECH WABAG, India upgrades to the latest Wrench Enterprise and expands its implementation to integrate its engineering offices located in Chennai, Pune and site office across the country and overseas.

Wrench solutions focuses to enable its customers to execute turnkey projects by lean & green methodology; mastered by implementing the solution for manufacturing industry over the last 15 years.

Seminar on lean & green methodology organized by WRENCH and HP received a great appreciation from companies executing turnkey projects.

The event involved brainstorming sessions between the top management executives throwing more light into the common challenges faced by the industry. Later on, Godrej and Tata Power presented a case study on the business benefits reaped by implementing the new concept.The seminar was held at the VITS Hotel, Mumbai on June 12th 2009.

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The objective of the seminar was to demonstrate how information technology can help companies to plan and execute turnkey projects more efficiently and cost-effectively.

Upcoming Event

As a result of the success and positive response from the participants of the Lean & Green Project Execution Seminar held in Mumbai, we will be hosting a similar event in Dubai where we will be sharing our knowledge and experience for turnkey project companies on our new concept "Lean & Green Project Execution".

A report by the I.T. department of Habtoor Leighton Group has revealed that investment on Wrench Enterprise has been fully recovered due to the drastic reduction in the use of printing stationary and cartridge for the project.

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Wrench Signs up with Alpha Data as business associates, to provide integrated solution to companies catering in the EPC sector.

InfraCAD, the dealer for Microstation and ProjectWise, signs up with Wrench Solutions as system integrated partners to market and implement wrench suit of product in the Middle East.

WRENCH Solutions signs up with Crown Systems (S) Pte Ltd, Singapore as their Business associate. Crown Systems is the leading provider of quality and cost-effective project management and design & engineering solutions. Crown Systems is an authorized distributor, reseller and training center for Oracle Primavera in Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam, an Oracle Certified Advantage Partner and an authorized Autodesk Value Added Reseller and Training Center. They are also an authorized eTimeMachine Reseller in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines and Brunei and partner in the joint venture, ASEP Technologies, which specializes in Strategy & Performance Management.

Automation and collaboration to reduce the cycle time of project and go GREEN.

Qatar. - Oct 19th , 2009 -  Energy City to adopt ‘lean & Green methodology'  in project Lifecycle management using WRENCH Enterprise^™, a technology which maximizes efficiency in planning, monitoring and execution of Infrastructure projects across the globe.  By replacing manually-driven processes with an automated, integrated platform, the region's first energy business-hub expects to reduce the cycle time by at least 40%, ensure 100% quality/compliance in project deliverables, and allow timely and effective collaboration among stakeholders, including its 70-plus contractors.

Energy City opted for WRENCH Enterprise^™ because of the richness and relevance of features offered, and its proven track record in the infrastructure projects. Unlike similar solutions (i.e. DMS and EDMS), WRENCH Enterprise^™ was created specifically for the project process and so incorporates industry best practices and knowledge of Infrastructure organizations' business needs and internal workings.

Energy City conducted an in-depth evaluations on several products that offered document/file management and web collaboration before choosing WRENCH. Results showed that no other system tied together all their requirements in a single solution, or offered unique advantages like automated enforcement of quality (ISO) and project correspondence management, or system-driven knowledge archival and multilevel security options. Seeing this, Energy City decided to adopt ‘Lean & Green' methodologies demonstrated by WRENCH Enterprise with a view to cutting out waste and improving efficiency across their entire project lifecycle and reduce the carbon footprint.

"We define ‘Lean & Green methodology' as a set of practices that make the project lifecycle efficient and cost-effective by cutting out everything not essential to customer satisfaction" said Varghese Daniel, Director of WRENCH Solutions. Our solution applies these practices to the project process via software technology. With it, companies like Energy City can reduce waste and increase efficiency, use their existing resources to maximum potential and also reduce the carbon footprint to the minimum by working in a paperless environment.

About Energy City 
Energy City Qatar (ECQ) is a pioneering development that will be the Gulf's first hydrocarbon industry hub. ECQ will be a single point of access to markets and expertise, the Middle East home for global players in the hydrocarbon value chain.  Developed by Gulf Energy, ECQ aims to attract the industry leaders in O&G production, International Oil Companies, National Oil Companies, support services, infrastructure and downstream activities, shipping and trading, market and resource data, intellectual property and energy trading.

ECQ has the full support of the Qatari Government and aims to lead the way in hydrocarbon above ground resource development. More information can be found at www.qatar.energycity.com.

Makati City, Philippines, 08 July 2010:

WRENCH Solutions today announced a strategic partnership with The Philippine’s premier IT Solutions vendor to provide their unique technology to the infrastructure and EPC industry in the Republic. The solution, WRENCH | enterprise™, streamlines how organisations tackle complex engineering projects in a collaborative manner which forces teams to work more efficiently together to deliver timely project deliverables that are on budget.

“With almost twenty years in the business of providing engineering solutions to our clients in the EPC, property development Engineering Consultants & Constructors, who plan to use or have complementary softwares like Primavera®, MS/Project®, MS/Office®, AutoCAD®, can now extend their usage of these tools within an integrator environment that is provided in WRENCH | enterprise™. Finally we can help our clients connect the dots in the islands of automation that we have been providing them throughout these years.” expressed by Jojo De Guia, President, Microphase Corporation.

“Microphase immediately identified the vast potential that WRENCH | enterprise™ could bring to the needs of their clients, who have been seeking such solutions for some time now. We are pleased to work with a young and talented time in delivery the best projects control system to the Philippines.” echoes from Vincent Chia, Regional Director, Wrench Solutions.

BHEL-ISG (Industrial Systems Group) successfully completes the upgrade to the latest WRENCH-EPC software in a record 30-day period and deploys all ongoing projects. Three projects division of BHEL-ISG's namely ‘Balance of Plant' Division, ‘Thermal Plant' Division & ‘Coal Handling' Division have rolled out WRENCH.

BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited) is the largest engineering/manufacturing enterprise in India. BHEL manufactures over 180 products under 30 major product groups and caters to three core business sectors, namely; Power, Industry (Transmission, Transportation, Telecommunication & Renewable Energy) and Overseas Business.

WRENCH Solutions is all set to grab the limelight at the upcoming Project Challenge Spring Show, to be held in U.K. from March 12th to 13th, 2008. The Customer Voice Presentation by WRENCH Solutions at this prestigious industry event aims to provide 'real practical value and a very worthwhile learning experience'. Mr. Varghese Daniel would demonstrate (with Simon Carves as a case study) how WRENCH^TM technology fulfils the information+ process +security needs of multi-located engineering organizations.  With over 80 exhibiting organizations, and more than 40 high quality presentations to choose from, this event offers the organization an unparalleled opportunity to learn from leading industry experts.

Details of seminar is available at http://www.projchallenge.com

WRENCH in association with HP is organizing an event on April 18, 2008 in Intercontinental The Grand, Andheri - Mumbai, for all the leading engineering and manufacturing companies in the western region, where the Engineering Heads of some of the esteemed clients of WRENCH such as Tata Power, BHEL & Simon Carves would be sharing their valuable experiences of using WRENCH Enterprise™ to address their business challenges. WRENCH Enterprise, the latest product from WRENCH, would be showcased in the event followed by a close & candid knowledge sharing interactive session between the participants.

Client presentation by :
Engineering Managers from TATA Power, Simon Carves & BHEL

Presentation on :
Latest WRENCH Enterprise™ & High-end servers and storage devices by HP and Redington

WRENCH has been closely associated with ISRO projects for the past 5 years .The system has been already implemented in the currently running Launch Vehicle Project GSLV-MK3 in its Composite Division. WRENCH is expected to be implemented on the new project within the next 2-3 months.

The users of Godrej InfoTech (IT Division of Godrej) were involved in the extensive evaluation, carried out over a period of 6 months. WRENCH was selected after a comprehensive evaluation of WRENCH and Windchill. The system will also be integrated with the BAAN ERP software, Primavera and CAD software. Godrej also plans to implement WRENCH in all its other Engineering divisions such as Machine building, Aerospace, Material handling etc.

WRENCH has signed up with Project Management Research Institute (PMRI) as an associate.  WRENCH and PMRI will now jointly offer both Project Management and Engineering Business Process Management expertise for their clientele.

With this agreement, PMRI and its partners will work closely with WRENCH in Product Development, Product Promotion, Consulting, and Project Management Competency Development. PMRI's standards based project management expertise and WRENCH's highly effective product suite will help both organizations in leveraging each other's strengths to deliver complete project management solutions to their customers. The partnership will provide the customers with end to end project management solutions such as PM capability assessments, PM strategy definition and Implementation.

PMRI has expertise in project management training and consulting in IT, Construction and MEP domains. PMRI has trained more than 2000 project managers worldwide on PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge by Project Management Institute Inc. USA), PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environment), and Agile project management.

Chalmers Engineering would role out WRENCH-Enterprise on a fast track implementation to manage their projects which are distributed across multiple client locations. WRENCH would enable them to monitor the deliverables in real time, meet the tight delivery schedules and ensure access to the latest information. Chalmers would also extend WRENCH to manage the projects that are off-shored to low cost Engineering offices outside the UAE. 

Chalmers - Established in 1977 in Dubai by Sam Chalmers, Chalmers Engineering has a presence throughout the United Arab Emirates with offices in Dubai, Jebel Ali and Abu Dhabi. Chalmers is a diversified engineering organization with a significant involvement in the marine industry.

QDC plans to implement WRENCH-Enterprise to track the deliverables in real time that are executed by their multiple Engineering and associates offices located in Qatar and India. Wrench would also help in the enforcement of ISO processes and standards across the various offices of QDC.

QDC is an Engineering Consultancy Office offering professional consultancy services in Concept Proposals, Architectural Designs, Civil & Structural Designs, Building Services Designs, Project Management and Quantity Surveying. Established in 1977, QDC provides Architectural Services in the State of Qatar. Since then QDC has grown into a multi disciplinary Consulting organization employing 140 professionally qualified experienced staff that includes Architects, Engineers, Auto Cad technicians, Quantity Surveyors and Project Managers.

Qatar chapter of the Institution of Engineers (India) held a seminar on project control and management systems at the Indian Cultural Centre where K Varghese Daniel, director of Wrench Solutions, was the speaker.
Varghese said that the project management control systems were the modern tools for managing project scope, cost and schedule and that they were based on carefully defined process and document controls, metrics, performance indicators and forecasting with capability to reveal trends towards cost overrun and / or schedule slippage.
Varghese narrated that multi-located, growth-orientated turnkey project companies of today handled multiple projects across multiple locations. Having a control on those projects was a major challenge.
He explained how Wrench global project control system managed the complete engineering business process lifecycle of turnkey projects companies and enabled to capture and share large volumes of engineering data across the enterprise, enforced organisation processes and monitored project deliverables in real time.
The speech was followed by a question-answer session. The function was well attended by engineers.
Earlier, Institution’s chairman Debashis Roy introduced the speaker. Secretary Aniruddha Kulkarni compered the proceedings and said the chapter would celebrate the 41st Engineers Day on September 26. He made an appeal to all the members to join the organising committee.
During the seminar, photo identity cards for members were formally inaugurated jointly by A C Sarkar, Satish Deshpande and U U Menon. Joint secretary Seenu Pillai made the arrangements for printing and distribution of the ID cards.
Vinit Chandran proposed a vote of thanks.
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WRENCH Solutions signs up with Al Majed Software as their system integration partner for Qatar. Al Majed Software was successful in bagging the first order from the Qatar Design Consortium (QDC) a leading design and engineering company within a record time of less than two months

WRENCH Solutions has signed up with Gulf Marine Services (GMS), the largest Elevated Support Vessel operator in the Middle East, to implement WRENCH Enterprise for their marine business and ship repairs. The deal is bound to open up abundant opportunities for expansion of Wrench into the middle-east region.

GMS owns and operates Elevated Support Vessels as well as supply and AHTS vessels. In addition to this, GMS is also capable of supporting salvage and offshore towage.The Company was established in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates in 1977 and has an offshore base and head office in Mussaffah, Abu Dhabi. Currently, the company has a fleet of five modern jack-up barges and seven offshore supply and anchor handling vessels.

WRENCH Solutions has signed up with SCIL as their system integration partner. SCIL, is a Global Engineering Consultancy & Design Company with world-class engineering design expertise and stellar list of clients, is a member of Punj Lloyd Group.

With a fast-expanding Process Engineering Team, the company provides comprehensive EPC service to their clients located all over the world, in the fields of Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Clean Fuels, Chemical, Refinery, Power and Utility.

SCIL uses WRENCH Enterprise™ internally for managing their projects of their client. Some of their client will be provided with access to the Project data and project status information. By this the client can monitor the project status remotely, get access to the latest data (without depending on FTP), ensure that the Quality management processes are enforced and have complete security of the data produced by SCIL.

SCIL with their knowledge of Engineering processes and hands-on experience on WRENCH Enterprise™ will now offer service in defining the optimized business process and Implementing WRENCH-Enterprise for their clients to help the client manage their business process efficiently.

Chalmers Engineering has successfully rolled out WRENCH Enterprise™ in its live projects (2 new and 1 existing project). The system has enabled the proper enforcement of organizational processes across the various departments and to ensure 100% quality in deliverables.The project managers can now systematically monitor the status of each deliverable. WRENCH has brought in complete accountability for all the deliverables.

Chalmers - Established in 1977 in Dubai by Sam Chalmers, Chalmers Engineering has a presence throughout the United Arab Emirates with offices in Dubai, Jebel Ali and Abu Dhabi. Chalmers is a diversified engineering organization with a significant involvement in the marine industry

Mr. Alex V, a fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India with an MBA from the Cochin University of Science and Technology has been inducted into the Board of Directors. He has to his credit, more than 35 years experience in the Industry. Presently, he is practicing as a Chartered Accountant.
After his 20 years tenure with HMT Ltd, he joined Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL), a special purpose vehicle, set up to construct and to operate an international Airport in Cochin under the PPP scheme. He served CIAL, as the Chief of Finance, right from its very inception till 2006.

WRENCH Enterprise™ successfully deployed in QDC, one of the leading Engineering Consultancy Office offering professional consultancy services in Concept Proposals, Architectural Designs, Civil & Structural Designs, Building Services Designs, Project Management, Quantity Surveying and ISO consulting.

Metito (U.A.E) plans to implement WRENCH for Engineering data management: World leader in water treatment systems chose to update WRENCH as its primary I.T. infrastructure for project monitoring and Engineering data management.

Since 1958, Metito (U.A.E) has earned a reputation for excellence in the design and supply of water / wastewater treatment and water desalination systems. With a highly-trained staff of over 800 professionals, Metito's approach combines theoretical expertise with the practical experience of an engineering and contracting company.

From ‘document management' to project, quality, process and Engineering data management.
Some time earlier Metito had invested in the popular EDMS software Documentum in a bid to capture and hopefully be able to reuse project information like drawings and other documentation. Going by the example of many other engineering companies who had also installed this s/w, Metito went ahead and got Documentum, and thus were reluctant to explore the new solution WRENCH. However, the WRENCH team managed to make a demo to a senior team at Metito, who were so impressed by the process-driven approach of WRENCH EPC that they were willing to evaluate further, even though at the time had already decided to invest in another software called Mclaren (which had a workflow module) to run on top of Documentum.

Evaluating with reference customers and pilot implementation
Metito's Quality manager and Project manager visited 5 WRENCH EPC customer sites, and speaking directly to the end users and implementation team at these sites, gave a very positive report back to the management. They decided to go ahead with a WRENCH pilot implementation, which was a great success, and got positive response from Metito's consultant partners also.

Roll out
The consultant recommended that WRENCH be implemented across the entire organization to improve reduce cycle time and ensure quality. WRENCH was then rolled out across all Metito's offices, starting from their head office in UAE and in Qatar, India, cairo and Manila.

Results
Along with faster cycle time and assured quality, Metito was able to Streamline the entire product process from inquiry - to - delivery, with special attention to enquiry processing. Tackle manpower constraints by automating workflows, make quality control foolproof and non-tamperable.

Industry leader tries out WRENCH EPC with great success, now switches completely to WRENCH EPC for all its projects, and in near future extend WRENCH to its other businesses also. 

Khatib and Alami (U.A.E), is the biggest Architectural Engineering and project management companies in the middle east region, with a reputation for creating some of world's largest and most unique buildings in the world, including the very prestigious Jeballi Airport (one of the largest cargo airport in the world).

Khatib and Alami (U.A.E), ranked among the top 50 International Engineering firms in the world, turns to WRENCH as I.T partner for faster engineering, quality compliance assurance, and enhanced productivity. K&A to implement WRENCH-EPC on one of the largest infrastructure project (SHAMS Abu Dhabi - US$3 Billion) and soon to extend it to all its projects.

K&A is located in 12 countries and has projects are in the field of infrastructure, District and city waste management system, Transportation (Roads, bridges, Airports), Oil and gas engineering in collaboration with ARAMCO (Saudhi Arabia), GIS etc.,

Manual process, insufficient support from existing I.T threatens continued growth
To support its rapid growth, K&A had put together a file-based system and identified a document controller in each location to upload and download file from a common FTP server. The challenge of this system was there was a lot of manual labour and huge dependency on the document controllers. This combined with the many bottlenecks, delays and challenges inherent in any manual-driven working environment made K&T decide to opt for a more robust and comprehensive I.T. system that could offer proven business value for real-world requirements.

After checking out the various solutions available in the market, K&A chose WRENCH based on its strong track record and good domain expertise.

Results
K&A is extremely happy with the results it has seen so far from WRENCH. WRENCH-EPC is now being rolled out across all the other office locations and all project handled by K&A. WRENCH-EPC is also being implemented for in the Infrastructure, Oil and Gas, Transportation and GIS business of K&A.

Simon Carves (UK) one of the Global Engineering Leader has partnered with WRENCH to set up an integrated I.T. infrastructure across its offices worldwide for managing global turnkey projects. With the implementation of WRENCH, Simon Carves will have total control of all projects across multiple locations. Distributed project teams can work as a single 'virtual' team online, without depending on FTP or email to share information, collaborate, release to site or monitor work. WRENCH will be rolled out at Simon Carves' UK, India and Singapore offices during a 16 week period. (The Punj Lloyd group also has standardized on WRENCH as its in-house IT infrastructure.)

VECO Engineering (presently CH2MHILL VECO) has successfully rolled out WRENCH-EPC on all its live projects. All the current projects are managed online through WRENCH. The system has enabled to enforce organizational processes across the various departments and to ensure 100% quality in deliverables. With WRENCH-EPC, VECO is able to consistently monitor large volumes of Engineering deliverables (approx. over 1000 documents/drawings per project) in real-time and provide always access to the latest information to all project stake holders. The project managers can now monitor the status of each deliverables and also know with which resource it is pending. WRENCH has brought in complete accountability for all the deliverables.

Khatib & Alami (Sharjah), ranked among the top 50 international engineering firms in the world, to rolled out all new projects on the latest WRENCH-EPC software. The various stages in the project, right from planning stage to the project completion stage, are now managed online through WRENCH. Some of the projects, which involve multiple engineering offices (Beirut, Cairo, Saudi) are now being integrated. With this methodology of working K&A can now take up project in any country and do Engineering in any of there office or there partner office. The project managers can now monitor the progress of the deliverables in real-time and access the latest Engineering information without depending in FTP or Email.

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BHEL-TBG (Transmission Business Group) successfully completes upgrade to the latest WRENCH-EPC software and successfully rolled out latest three of the transmission projects online. BHEL-TBG is currently rolling out now all the running project. WRENCH-EPC has enabled BHEL-TBG to keep continuously keep track of the current status of all deliverables across various groups and to monitor projects effectively in real-time.

"We are now able to know the status of deliverables which are getting delayed much earlier so that we are able to take steps to prevent the delay." - Mr. Gautam Chaklader, (DGM-Engineering)