Efficient Substation Design and Engineering

“We wanted to create a basis for all information. primtech has become an essential part of our daily work for us. It’s impossible to imagine working without it.”

Dietmar Tietz Managing Director, WTE

“The requirements and orders have increased massively, but our implementation time has not increased – on the contrary. The degree of standardization in construction, planning, and preparation is so high today that we are able to achieve this pace in the first place.”

Dietmar Tietz Managing Director, WT Energiesysteme

The modular principle of primtech is very clever. Over time, we have created all the necessary templates to cover the various requirements of the respective network operators. This is super easy with primtech because we only need to exchange the modules.

Daniel Schuster Head of Primary Planning, WT Energiesysteme

primtech is one of our most important programs, and it’s used daily. Our training program, based on primtech INSIDE and our own Sharepoint site, gets new and yet less experienced employees to a usable level fast. This has been key in ensuring that our team can focus on what matters – designing substations, not modeling objects from scratch

Dag Slålien Electrical Power Engineer, Sweco Norge

We are significantly more efficient with primtech. Our design time has been cut to one-third, and we are now able to deliver better results faster. It’s much easier to show these designs to our clients, which has improved our project workflows.

Olav Nyhus Electrical Engineer, Sweco Norge

The library in primtech is one of the most usable things for us. The possibility of quickly designing with intelligent components, and the fact that we already used AutoCAD, made primtech the obvious choice.

Olav Nyhus Electrical Engineer, Sweco Norge

With primtech, new engineers don’t need years of on-site experience to understand what they’re designing. The 3D model speaks for itself.

Ts. Mohd Zulhairi Che Harun ORASKO, Malaysia

primtech has helped me enhance my engineering skills by properly designing the substation.

Design Engineer ABB, Pakistan

primtech is an excellent substation engineering tool having both drafting and analytical capabilities for making optimum design improving overall cost and lead time of substation projects.

M. Hassan Ejaz ABB, Pakistan

The use of primtech has significantly reduced the time required for the design and planning of substations. Since the software is consistently tailored to the needs of substation designers, the creation and calculation of various design options can now be carried out with ease.

primtech is great because it gives the design engineer the ability to see the product, i.e. the substation, very detailed, like we have never experienced – before the first brick is laid in the ground. This allows for more accurate bill of materials and cost estimation, which goes a long way in minimizing variation orders during project implementation.

George Muyunda Principal Engineer, Zesco Limited, Zambia

We have found to have very good support, always available to assist whether it be a technical issue with the software or library elements.

George Muyunda Principal Engineer, Zesco Limited, Zambia

primtech has helped us achieve this [standardization] and we are now on our way to ensuring that we issue detailed substation design conceptual drawings to EPC contractors.

George Muyunda Principal Engineer, Zesco Limited, Zambia

The nice thing is, ALL the drawings are ‘intelligently’ linked such that any change made in the 3D model of the substation project is automatically represented in the drawings. This greatly enhances design time.

George Muyunda Principal Engineer, Zesco Limited, Zambia

I feel confident using primtech. We can design substation projects and know that everything will work out.

Antonio Ribeiro Executive Director Forsep Engenharia, Brazil

Since we tried primtech’s virtual reality, clicking the primtech DT button has become addictive.

Franklin Olivo Managing Director Folivo, Dominican Republic

It’s fantastic! We anticipated that we would have a fairly steep learning curve, and that we would need to adjust our way of thinking and our thought processes but the software is well written and logical and intuitive and each piece flows into the next piece. Before you’re quite done, you come to the realization that you’ve designed an entire substation.

Mathew White Senior Designer, Del-Mont Consultants

AutoCAD took too much time equal to 8 hours for creating a single drawing, but with primtech by every thing already into its library the time is saved by more than 50 percent.

Design Engineer ABB, Pakistan

primtech is perfectly capable of checking the lightning protection of a substation, because the check in a 3D model is more accurate. primtech additionally supports – through integrated checking of clearances – the optimization of the substation layout and thereby reduces investment costs.

Sascha Wodarczyk Technical Engineer B.Eng, TenneT TSO GmbH, Germany

No matter how good or bad the documentation is, the truth is in the substation. I simply get it with the laser scan and the primtech OSR function or the primtech OSR+PRO service! Compared to other software solutions, primtech has proven to be much more efficient. A decisive advantage that has saved us a lot of work.

Frank Weber Technical Project Manager, Siemens Energy

Adoption of these new technologies has business drivers and goes beyond just automation of tasks. With primtech, we can radically transform how we deliver our engineering work.

Holger Peller Business Line Executive, Power & Energy, WSP

Despite implementing a new design platform for the first time, the project was delivered on schedule utilizing only 70% of the originally allocated design budget.

Diana Costner-Montoya PMP, Technical Director, Project Management, WSP

Our designers were trained and productive in less than a week, which has never been the case with other BIM software.

Kelby Dardeau primtech North America Technical Solutions Manager and former WSP BIM Designer

We wanted to see if we could improve our processes and work more efficiently by shifting our approach and adopting a new tool. That meant comparing the tools we already use with one another and with emerging alternatives.

Jeremy Morton Power Delivery BIM, WSP

Our digital end-to-end process enables us to generate a virtual reality model from the primtech 3d model with the push of a button. This makes it easier to involve other departments and creates a digital twin of the real substation.

With the OSR+PRO process, we save an average of 3-4 weeks per substation in the preliminary planning phase. That’s really great.

The accuracy and trust we have in primtech are unmatched. It ensures that what we plan is exactly what gets built.

primtech is fantastic because it is just the perfect tool for substation design. When you go with primtech – you will never understand how you used to design back in the day. With primtech we optimized the design process significantly, our projects became more reliable and mistake-proof.

Tomas Gudaitis UAB Projektai ir Co, Litauen