Energy & Utilities

In recent years, the Energy and Utilities (E&U) sector has attracted significant regulatory and political attention. Meanwhile, aging assets, fluctuating prices and increased competition are putting the squeeze on utilities as they struggle to maintain financial performance. As a result, operational efficiency is now paramount.

Cognizant’s EMS practice supports energy and utilities companies with a wide range of services that deliver tangible insights on the plant floor. They enable better strategic decisions that deliver overall operational excellence as well as streamlined processes. Many clients report increased customer loyalty and higher profits after deployment.

What We Offer

  • Plant Operations Management – Whether it’s adopting a single, scalable platform for manufacturing IT solutions, solving process bottlenecks, or providing actionable insight into current operations, Cognizant EMS can optimize all aspects of managing your plant. You will be able to reduce operating costs while increasing user productivity, process agility and plant throughput.
  • Asset Management – We bring new levels of efficiency to maintenance management, spare and inventory management, and procurement. Through remote plant monitoring and real-time asset intelligence, you will be able to closely monitor asset performance and efficiently manage your workforce – at the same time increasing asset availability, reducing cost, and avoiding unnecessary maintenance and downtime.
  • Safety and Regulatory Compliance – Using proven technology solutions, Cognizant can help Energy and Utilities companies improve regulatory reporting, data integrity and security management, as well as document management. From safety audits and planning to product release management, Cognizant has proven expertise and a long track record of success. We can even help you set up quality assurance review boards.
  • Knowledge Management and Training – The EMS team provides rigorous dynamic simulation and control system emulations for engineers, operators, and managers to improve plant design, analyze controls and verify overall plant performance. As a result, we make it possible to overcome the dynamic challenges of designing and operating a modern process plant by reducing capital investment costs, improving process yields, and enhancing management decision making.

In delivering these solutions, we leverage reusable components and pre-built solution accelerators to maximize speed and quality of execution. And with Cognizant’s global talent footprint, any solution can reach upstream producers as well as downstream players across all geographies.

 

Our Approach

  • The Cognizant Difference

    It's in our DNA. Placing our clients first is embedded in the Cognizant culture. By investing in our people and resources, we bring new ideas and innovation to help you succeed in a changing business environment.

  • Two-in-a-Box

    We embed senior personnel with demonstrated industry expertise in your IT organization. They coordinate strategy with dedicated offsite delivery managers, freeing your team to concentrate on core business objectives.

  • Cognizant 2.0

    By employing the Cognizant 2.0 platform, we bring the best people, resources and capabilities of our global delivery system to any client, anywhere.