Case Study: Hydro-Québec doubles substation design productivity with Zuken E3.series

Hydro-Québec doubles substation design productivity with Zuken

Hydro-Québec, a major hydro-electric power producer, faced challenges in designing complex power substations. Their old 2D CAD process was slow and error-prone, requiring manual updates to thousands of documents and leading to inconsistencies. To address this, they implemented vendor Zuken's E3.series cable design and application management software.

The solution from Zuken managed both logical and physical design in a synchronized, multi-user environment. Using E3.series' templates for repetitive circuits and automated design change propagation, Hydro-Québec doubled its productivity. Specifically, greenfield substation design time was reduced by 50%, and the required software seats were cut from 80 to 41 for the same workload, while also significantly reducing errors.

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