Success Story: Water

I. CUSTOMER ENVIRONMENT / PROJECT CONTEXT

Customer profile:

• Singapore water authorities are in charge of providing water to more than 4 million inhabitants but no local natural resource is important enough.
  

Customer objective and constraints:

• Singapore relies on a neighbouring country (Malaysia) to provide drinking water to the population but independence is required at least for a minimum quantity
  
• In addition microelectronic industries are present in Singapore and they require ultra pure water for their process
  

II. SOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION

Implementation methodology (main phases):

Duration:

• 2 years: 2002 to 2004

Solution overview (services, products, systems, architectures...):

• Full design of PCC, MMC and automation for the different steps of the process from micro filtration to reverse osmosis.

III. RESULTS / ACHIEVEMENT

Customer benefits:

• Single source for electrical and control issues
  
• Ease of operation and maintenance
  
• Performance of the high tech plant

Customer testimonies (Verbatim):

• Numerous visits of this plant are organised by Schneider Electric for its customers. We are always well received and congratulated and ... we receive a sample of the bottled water issued from the plant!

Schneider Electric differentiating values VS competitors:

• Full solution capability at design stage and plant service stage
  
• International coordination between Singapore, Malaysia and customer headquarters