JDI Success Stories

For additional information regarding specific project experiences, please contact us. This portfolio represents a cross section of our business and project history, demonstrating the capabilities of our professional staff.

Opportunity:
A Midwestern utility developing a fuel beneficiation system required project development, management, and engineering support.

Solution: JDI was selected with a utility partner to provide project development, construction management, and project engineering services in support of a major fuel system beneficiation project. Deliverables included development of comprehensive project role definitions, project design criteria, and field support in several team and individual roles.

Opportunity:
A regional engineering firm expanded their portfolio to include control system development and engineering services.

Solution: JDI provided control system development and engineering services to internal and external engineering clients. Work on several major control system platforms was planned, initiated, and executed in support of larger project goals.

Opportunity:
An upper Midwestern recycling company requested support to determine business growth and expansion opportunities in the biomass industry.

Solution: JDI worked with board of directors and management personnel of the recycling company to evaluate current operations and potential expansion opportunities. A series of options were developed and researched to include market analysis, pro-forma development, pre-project engineering and estimating, and business planning. An expansion option was developed and activities initiated with a business partner to initiate new business operations, leading to a new recycling operation for waste biomass in the target market area.

Opportunity:
A worldwide process control system supplier requested development of new strategies for advanced technology in the utility sector.

Solution: JDI was selected to develop new implementation strategies for advanced control system technologies. Multi-device and network technologies were integrated into new construction approaches for utility installations in coal, gas, and environmental control facilities. Cost estimates were developed for several implementations including a 600 MW supercritical coal facility, a standalone wet FGD implementation, and a series of combined cycle configurations. Hard savings ranging from 2 to 4% of total project cost were identified in multiple industry applications, later resulting in several U.S. installations. See JDI News for additional information. June 2, 2007 Update: Development and estimating tools were recently updated to include currency independence, productivity sensitivity, and have been extended into bio-diesel refining applications.

Opportunity:
A utility system and plant owner/developer requested an applicability evaluation of bussed concepts and new construction methods for a proposed U.S. power plant installation.

Solution: JDI developed a series of new control systems construction options, including detailed analysis of advantages and considerations, for presentation and discussion. The overall approach concept was determined viable and further work was undertaken to fully implement selected concepts.

Opportunity:
A mid-western utility requested environmental compliance project development and strategic planning.

Solution: JDI personnel developed a strategic environmental plan for a Generation company portfolio. The plan was inclusive of current and proposed legislation, for air, water, and waste management, for thermal, co-generation, and other generation asset operations for a 15-20 year planning horizon. The final analysis included complete financial, risk, and technical components.

Opportunity:
A consortium required project development for a large scale biomass co-generation facility serving a large paper mill operation.

Solution: JDI personnel and partners evaluated a state-of-the-art heat and power production facility based on circulating fluidized bed technology. Active participation included financial, operations, multi-disciplined technical, and other areas of development process.

Opportunity:
A Midwestern utility acquired and expanded a co-generation operation to increase operational reliability.

Solution: JDI personnel provided due diligence, operations integration, and construction management services for a co-generation plant acquisition. The expansion included retirement of two 1950's gas boilers and replacement with near equally sized but environmentally compliant gas fired package boilers. The overall project schedule was ten months from team kickoff to startup, which included acquisition closing and operations integration and re-staffing support.

Opportunity:
A Generation group of a major Midwestern utility implemented a work management and reporting system.

Solution: JDI personnel provided project management services for implementation of a Generation wide work management and reporting system. A Generation wide maintenance and operations work flow analysis was complete, after which an Oracle based work management system implementation took place, linking utility accounting and management systems where required. Implementation was completed with adherence to cultural work paradigms over multiple logical and physical facilities in several locations.

Opportunity:
A Midwestern utility upgraded a 1000 MW plant with 14 major control systems to a modern, integrated, distributed control and information system.

Solution: JDI personnel provided project management services to justify replacement, evaluate options, and implement a plant wide control system with 12,000 hard I/O points. The final implementation solution included a five year phased implementation, long term business unit integration planning, external networking infrastructure, data communications systems upgrades and Generation-wide data acquisition systems implementation.

Opportunity:
A large scale taconite mining operation installed an integrated truck and train dispatching system to optimize material handling operations.

Solution: JDI personnel provided automation project management support for a leading North American mine management agent. Project support was provided for multiple mining automation projects at U.S. and Canadian locations in support of production optimization, data management and quality initiatives. The design, installation, and commissioning of the first fully automated truck and train dispatch system in North America was completed.