Discussion on information construction of electric power enterprise

The process of management information system reform based on BPR

With the gradual release of telecommunications and civil aviation market, more and more people began to pay attention to the reform of the power industry. Marketization, standardization is the inevitable trend of power industry reform, then in the new situation, facing the market-oriented, standardized industry development requirements, the power industry how to do the information construction? Let's take a look at the current situation of information construction in power industry.

Three major structural problems

China's power industry information construction started earlier, in the 60 's, the power industry has applied information technology to the production process automation, power plant automatic monitoring/producer and substation automatic monitoring/monitoring.

However, because the power industry has been in a relatively monopolistic position, coupled with frequent changes, the power industry's focus has been on how to implement system reform and how to improve production capacity, so the entire power industry information application level is not high, the entire industry lacks a unified standard. There are three structural problems in the information construction in power industry:

First, the basic hardware input is more, the software input is relatively insufficient.

At present, the investment of information construction in China's power industry is still in the stage of large-scale basic hardware input, and the existing network and information resources are not utilized enough. Many electric power enterprises for information construction still exist misunderstanding, tend to buy something to see and touch, according to the relevant data shows that the 2005 China's power industry, the overall input of information about 10 billion, of which the hardware input accounted for the total input of 73%, software services accounted for only 11%.

and a mature information market, hardware, software, it services, the proportion of input should be 5:3:2.

Without the support of software system, the hardware system can not play its due effect, therefore, in the information construction, the power industry enterprises in the information construction, should resolutely abandon the information construction is to buy the idea of equipment, to achieve overall planning, to avoid the information resources blindly input and waste.

Secondly, there are many professional systems and lack of system management software.

China's power industry information construction started earlier, but due to the existence of industry monopoly, the main focus of the power industry on how to improve production capacity and safety, therefore, although after years of information construction, the entire electric power industry is still in a large number of professional systems and system management software lack of the situation, The application of production automation system is still the main body of software application in power industry, and it has more control over the process of production, transmission, distribution and sale of power industry, but the support ability of power Enterprise's management decision is not enough.

Third, system isolation, information can not be concentrated as a resource.

As the whole power industry has been in the transformation, so, although there are such as "regional and provincial power company Information System construction norms" and other documents issued, but in the entire industry, most of the power group of electric power plant information systems vary widely, because no unified information coding, It is very difficult to share and exchange information information directly in the group, the information system is isolated, and all links can not be used as the resources to be shared.

Faced with these structural problems, how to fundamentally solve these constraints on the power information market, the crux of the lingering?

Process optimization to promote informatization

Into the 2006, the power supply and demand relations from the tension to relatively loose, under the impetus of the high level, the reform of the power system to accelerate, April 12, 2007, "on Eleven-Five deepening the implementation of power system reform" officially issued. "On the Eleven-Five to deepen the implementation of the reform of the electric power system" clearly put forward, 25, to seize the power supply and demand contradictions to alleviate the favorable opportunity to consolidate the existing reform results, the power system reform continues to deepen and promote the sustainable and healthy development of the power industry, this proposal, It is considered to be the programmatic document of the power system reform in recent years, and its issuance indicates that the power reform is speeding towards deepening.

In the face of the deepening of reform, how can the power industry seize the favorable opportunity and conform to the requirements of change for information construction?

In the analysis of the power industry software usage, we find that most of the management software used in the power industry is still in the application level of a single management information system such as financial system, human resource management system and simple OA system, and some power enterprises try to implement ERP system, but most of them are not effective at last. This is mainly because the power industry in the past as a monopoly industry, in the monopolistic environment, the power industry for the promotion of internal management of the demand is not high.

So, in the face of power reform to accelerate the deepening, how the power industry from the monopoly of the umbrella to face the market competition? How to link the information construction and the whole industry change together?

Past experience has taught us that through process optimization (BPR), it is possible to unify enterprise transformation and information system construction. Therefore, the process optimization to straighten out the relationship between the various isolated systems in the power industry, process optimization is a commonplace topic, but for a long time in the monopoly power industry, the process optimization to promote the power industry information construction may be a breakthrough in the information construction of the power industry:

First, the market-oriented, standardized reform thinking requires the power industry to break the monopoly, then the entire power industry is facing from the organization to the business of the overall transformation, production, transmission, distribution, sale of each link will be in accordance with the new Order of value chain reorganization, this time, the original process optimization, that is, in line with the entire industry changes in demand, Also can enhance the power enterprise to participate in the market competition strength. Fundamentally solve the current power industry information construction of the five major problems.

Second, the lack of information construction planning in power industry and the fragmentation of the system, it is urgent to rethink and reorganize the information construction of power industry. In the past dozens of years, information technology has been applied in various fields of electric power industry, but the applications in various fields are dispersed and isolated, and the concept of large systems has not been formed. Therefore, in the next stage, one of the key points of power informatization is the integration and comprehensive utilization of information technology. Firstly, in order to guarantee the reliability and security of power industry in information and network, it is necessary to integrate and unify the communication network, data network and information network of power system. Next is the management information system and so on the internal integration of information application systems. After years of continuous construction, the power industry within the various sub systems using a variety of platforms and management software, which is not conducive to the use of operations, management and maintenance and the overall effect of the play, so to carry out platform integration. Then the integration of various information application systems. At present, the management information system is applied in various specialties of power system, marketing automation system (including customer service center), power production management system, power Market technology support system, material procurement system, GIS system, and so on, with the widespread application, the system also needs to carry out platform and internal work flow integration and unification. The foundation of power informatization integration is the optimization of electric power enterprise management process, without process optimization, it is impossible to define the operation relationship of power enterprise system fundamentally and realize the integration of the system. The management information system reform based on BPR should be based on the reform idea of the power industry in the power enterprise, and the management change preparation and education should be carried out on the basis of BPR, which is the only way for electric power enterprises to go out of monopoly and market.

In short, the road of power industry informatization construction still needs to walk for a long time, facing the change, the power industry needs courage, seize the opportunity of change, use process optimization to promote its own information construction, to meet the whole power industry marketization and standardization lay a good foundation, ready.