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Magnox Electric Renews Contract for Hosted Indus EAM Solution.


Nuclear Utility Employs Indus Asset Suite to Manage Power Stations in England This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in England, sorted by type and name.

Note that the DBERR maintains a comprehensive list of UK power stations here:[1] Biofuels
Biofuel power stations:
  • Didcot A Power Station
 and Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff.  

ATLANTA -- Indus International Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
: IINT), a leading Service Delivery Management (SDM SDM - Schematic Data Model ) solution provider, today announced the renewal of its contract for a comprehensive hosted enterprise asset management (EAM (1) (Enterprise Asset Management) The management and control of the information technology assets within the enterprise. The asset management repository includes a description of the asset as well as contract information pertaining to its acquisition. ) solution for Magnox Electric Limited (Magnox), one of the United Kingdom's leading nuclear utilities. Magnox, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary

A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock.

Notes:
In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners.
 of British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL BNFL British Nuclear Fuels LTD ), originally signed a five-year contract in 2001 for a hosted EAM solution to manage Magnox's fleet of plants throughout the United Kingdom. The new IndusHosting agreement extends the original agreement through December 2008.

"Magnox was our first IndusHosting customer, a testament to the faith the utility placed in our ability to deliver a powerful hosted asset management solution fully supported by the company that designed and built it," said IndusHosting Senior Director Jeff Hebert. "This extension of our original agreement shows their faith was not misplaced mis·place  
tr.v. mis·placed, mis·plac·ing, mis·plac·es
1.
a. To put into a wrong place: misplace punctuation in a sentence.

b.
. It is a testament to the reliable service and return on investment that IndusHosting has provided to Magnox over the past five years - and continues to provide. The IndusHosting solution provides a high level of customer satisfaction, consistently meeting or exceeding our service level agreement even in the very demanding nuclear industry."

Magnox chose the Indus solution as the work management and compliance system for its Dungeness A, Oldbury, Bradwell, Sizewell A, Trawsfynydd, Wylfa, Hinkley A and Berkeley sites located across England and Wales England and Wales are both constituent countries of the United Kingdom, that together share a single legal system: English law. Legislatively, England and Wales are treated as a single unit (see State (law)) for the conflict of laws. . To help control costs while facilitating a smooth and rapid implementation of the new system, Magnox employed the IndusHosting solution to provide users the best possible experience as they utilize the application in the course of their daily activities. Through IndusHosting, Magnox has been able to maintain the application at the latest release level to ensure the highest possible return on their initial investment.

"The IndusHosting solution was an important investment in meeting our future goals and regulatory demands on our company in achieving operational excellence," said Dr. Chris Marchese mar·che·se  
n. pl. mar·che·si
1. An Italian nobleman ranking above a count and below a prince.

2. Used as the title for such a nobleman.
, Chief Nuclear Officer, Reactor Sites, Magnox. "Our focus at Magnox is on maintaining our high levels of environmental and safety performance and maximizing output over the remaining lifetimes of our stations. The Indus solution affords us a system that is on the leading edge of nuclear power plant compliance management. Delivering that system to our users via the IndusHosting model has provided us with greater flexibility to comply with safety and environmental regulations throughout the stations' lifecycles, as well as through the decommissioning Decommissioning is a general term for a formal process to remove something from operational status. Some specific instances include:
  • Ship decommissioning
See also:
 process."

Magnox is a member of the Indus Nuclear Leadership Council (NLC NLC National League of Cities
NLC National Library of Canada
NLC National Library of China
NLC Northern Lights College (British Columbia, Canada)
NLC North Lake College (Irving, Texas) 
), which meets regularly to discuss nuclear industry business drivers and identify strategies that leverage Indus solutions to support corporate growth and operational excellence goals. As an NLC member, Magnox can leverage the experience of other Indus clients and also work with the Indus nuclear community to provide input on development priorities that address future nuclear industry business drivers.

Indus President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  Greg Dukat added, "The decision by one of the leading nuclear power generation utilities in the UK to implement a hosted asset management solution is further validation of Indus' leadership in the nuclear EAM market and of the hosted delivery model. This solution allows Magnox to benefit from the advanced functionality of the industry's leading asset management system, ensuring that Magnox can easily leverage future advances in our technology across its multiple sites with minimal disruption to their day-to-day operation."

Indus is delivering an extensive set of EAM capabilities to Magnox via IndusHosting, including work management, inventory management, document management and engineering change. The solution also includes an extensive data warehouse, as well as search and mobile computing capabilities and integration to a third-party ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer.  solution, among other features.

Magnox's Indus solution is hosted by IndusHosting at the Verizon Business Data Center at Canary Warf in London. Verizon Business is the leading managed hosting provider for business on the Internet. IndusHosting will continue to provide Magnox with a secure, stable, high-performance managed hosting platform. And, Verizon Business will ensure the security of Magnox's critical business data through their SmartCenters(SM) data centers and dedicated Systems Security Organization.

About Magnox Electric Plc

Magnox Electric Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of BNFL, operates the group's four operating nuclear power stations This is a list of major nuclear power plants in all countries in the world.

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Name of power station Installed capacity in MW Country
Atucha I nuclear power plant 357 Argentina
, producing electricity for homes and businesses throughout England and Wales. Magnox -- based at Berkeley in Gloucestershire -- is also responsible for four other sites currently undergoing decommissioning and one small hydro station in North Wales.

About Indus International

Indus is a leading Service Delivery Management (SDM) solution provider, helping clients optimize the management of their customers, workforce, spare parts inventory, tools and documentation in order to maximize performance and customer satisfaction while achieving significant cost savings. Indus customer, asset and workforce management software products, professional services and hosted service offerings improve our clients' profitability by reducing costs, increasing capacity and competitiveness, improving service to their customers, facilitating billing for services and ensuring regulatory compliance. Indus solutions have been purchased by more than 400 companies in more than 40 countries, representing diverse industries -- including manufacturing, utilities, telecommunications, government, education, transportation, facilities and property management, high tech, consumer packaged goods and more. For more information, visit our Website at http://www.indus.com.

Indus is a registered trademark of Indus International, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
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