Customer Success Stories
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Case Studies Energy & Utilities
Shenhua Railway Transportation
As a wholly owned subsidiary of China Energy Group, Shenhua Railway Transportation Co., Ltd. specializes in the maintenance and leasing of locomotives and freight cars, and the maintenance and repair of railway lines. It manages more than 50,000 railway trucks and hundreds of other rolling stock assets, worth a total of more than 25 billion yuan (US $3.69 billion).
To keep its railways running smoothly, the company follows a planned preventive maintenance schedule that involves daily inspections and regular overhauls for all its freight cars. However, as technology has improved and vehicle parts have become more reliable, the company found that it was often spending time and money inspecting cars that did not need maintenance.
The company wanted to take a smarter approach: by monitoring the condition of each asset in real time, it would be able to assess when maintenance was necessary, and even predict and prevent failures before they happen. To deliver this comprehensive transformation of its maintenance strategy, the company established an innovation project known as "Shenhua Heavy-Duty Railway Freight Car State Maintenance Technology Research and Equipment Development".
POV/Focus: Big Data & Analytics, Migrate with Enterprise Resource Management, Cloud, High Availability
Offerings: ThinkSystem, Storage, Networking
Mosenergosbyt
MOSENERGOSBYT
Shining a bright new light on billing.
When you get your energy bill, you expect it to match up to your meter reading, right? To make sure that customers aren’t left in the dark about their bills, Mosenergosbyt moved its mission-critical Oracle customer billing system to high-performance Lenovo ThinkSystem severs – ensuring smooth operations even at times of peak demand.
Offerings: ThinkSystem, System x, Storage
Electrica Furnizare SA
More than 20 years of liberalization has transformed Romania’s energy sector. Today, businesses and households are no longer restricted to state-owned companies – they can pick and choose energy suppliers as they please to get the best deals and the best services. To deliver the control that customers crave, Electrica Furnizare S.A. launched slick web and mobile apps that offer quick, easy access to their energy accounts. The company worked closely with Lenovo and partner Entex S.R.L. to implement a flexible, software-defined infrastructure from Lenovo as the foundation for these services.
POV/Focus: Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Offerings: Networking, Lenovo Converged systems
Vestas
To help customers get the most out of their investment in wind turbines, renewable energy giant Vestas deployed a Lenovo NeXtScale System M5 cluster to support game-changing big data analytics. Today, the company can analyze streaming data from over 35,000 turbines around the world – delivering actionable insight to improve manufacturing, assembly, maintenance and customer services, and helping to make clean renewable windpower predictable and commercially viable worldwide.
POV/Focus: Big Data & Analytics
Offerings: NeXtScale System, System x, Networking, Intelligent Cluster