Infraserv GmbH & Co. Höchst KG (ISH) is the site operator of Industriepark Höchst. Around 90 companies with 22,000 employees from the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, basic and speciality chemicals, crop protection, food additives and services sectors are located on 460 hectares of land. Throughout Germany, ISH is represented at more than 100 industrial sites, has an annual turnover of around €1 billion and is regarded as a leading site developer and expert in chemical-related services.
In the field of engineering, the company has gone for a paradigm shift. With AUCOTEC's Engineering Base platform, ISH is gradually switching to cross-disciplinary working in a common data model in production and engineering. Engineering Base covers all engineering topics from P&IDs to instrumentation and maintenance. Until now, ISH has used separate tools for each of these.
The potential of the single source of truth
ISH had already had good experience with Engineering Base in the EMCR sector. "The system unfolds its full efficiency potential when the disciplines are brought together. Change management alone through Engineering Base as a single source of truth is so much more consistent, faster and easier," explains Edgar Heep, Head of I&C Design Industrial Engineering at ISH. AUCOTEC board member Uwe Vogt confirms: "Nowadays linked data and its universal availability are crucial; the more comprehensive the data model, the greater the efficiency."
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