• Utilities, Power
Case Power Lines

The solution

Ingen­co suc­cess­ful­ly mod­ern­ized its engi­neer­ing doc­u­ment work­flows, ensur­ing effi­cient updates, seam­less acces­si­bil­i­ty, and real-time col­lab­o­ra­tion across its grow­ing net­work. GTX solu­tions have helped Ingen­co main­tain its record for inge­nu­ity, inno­va­tion, and high-qual­i­ty ser­vice in the pow­er and util­i­ties sector.

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Ingen­co: Enhanc­ing engi­neer­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion across mul­ti­ple sites

Ingen­co, sup­port­ing pow­er and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, required a dig­i­tal solu­tion to man­age 274,000 draw­ings across mul­ti­ple loca­tions. GTXRaster­CAD®, inte­grat­ed with Altris CAD-Con­nect, pro­vid­ed remote redlin­ing, fast raster edit­ing, and seam­less data shar­ing, improv­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion and effi­cien­cy across all oper­a­tional bases.

Ingen­co, a spin-off from Scot­tish Power’s Tech­nol­o­gy divi­sion, has emerged as one of the UK’s most inno­v­a­tive engi­neer­ing com­pa­nies, pro­vid­ing exper­tise in heat, pow­er, and telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions sys­tems. With a team of 420 skilled engi­neers and sci­en­tists, Ingen­co sup­ports util­i­ty, pow­er pro­duc­tion, dis­tri­b­u­tion, mobile telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions, health­care, and indus­tri­al mar­kets. How­ev­er, man­ag­ing lega­cy engi­neer­ing draw­ings across mul­ti­ple sec­tors posed sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenges, requir­ing a sophis­ti­cat­ed, dig­i­tal solu­tion for effi­cien­cy and accessibility.

Chal­lenge

As Ingen­co expand­ed, it inher­it­ed an exten­sive archive of paper-based tech­ni­cal draw­ings and CAD files, pri­mar­i­ly in the Pow­er pro­duc­tion and Dis­tri­b­u­tion sector.

  • Engi­neers faced dif­fi­cul­ties in main­tain­ing up-to-date doc­u­men­ta­tion due to the lim­i­ta­tions of man­u­al redrafting.
  • Col­lab­o­ra­tion across offices — includ­ing Lon­don, East Kil­bride, Pren­ton, New­town, and Bon­ny­bridge — was chal­leng­ing due to frag­ment­ed access to engi­neer­ing drawings.
  • The orga­ni­za­tion need­ed a cen­tral­ized draw­ing man­age­ment sys­tem that allowed real-time col­lab­o­ra­tion, redlin­ing, and effi­cient updates while pre­serv­ing his­tor­i­cal engi­neer­ing records.

Solu­tion

Ingen­co imple­ment­ed Spescom/​Altris CAD-Con­nect, link­ing it with Auto­CAD® and GTXRaster­CAD® to opti­mize their doc­u­ment man­age­ment workflow.

  • Hybrid raster & vec­tor edit­ing: Engi­neers can mod­i­fy scanned pow­er schemat­ics with­out full vec­tor con­ver­sion, ensur­ing fast, pre­cise updates.
  • Remote access & redlin­ing: Trans­mis­sion engi­neers across mul­ti­ple loca­tions red­line the lat­est draw­ing revi­sions, which are then elec­tron­i­cal­ly processed by the Draw­ing Office using GTXRasterCAD®.
  • Wide-area net­work acces­si­bil­i­ty: With 274,000+ draw­ing files stored on cen­tral servers, GTX-pow­ered seats in region­al cen­ters enabled fast and secure remote access for engi­neers nationwide.

Result

By inte­grat­ing GTX and Altris solu­tions, Ingen­co achieved seam­less dig­i­tal col­lab­o­ra­tion and effi­cient engi­neer­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion management:

  • Updat­ed draw­ings are acces­si­ble orga­ni­za­tion-wide, improv­ing work­flow efficiency.
  • Ras­ter­ized cor­rect­ed draw­ings are avail­able for engi­neers with­out Auto­CAD®, mak­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion more inclusive.
  • Cost-effec­tive edit­ing meth­ods have stream­lined process­es, reduced the man­u­al work­load and improv­ing accu­ra­cy in engi­neer­ing operations.

“We have found that updat­ing our draw­ing files using the hybrid tech­niques of GTXRaster­CAD® has proved to be more cost effec­tive and eas­i­er than any­thing else we have used.”
- Bob­by Laird, Ingen­co EDMS Appli­ca­tion Admin­is­tra­tion Manager