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Murray & Roberts, a leading construction giant in South Africa chooses Wrench Enterpsie as their mainstream Enterprise data management system.
They will use Wrench as main stream system and Aconex as upstream system to interface with the client.

Wrench's proven capability to produce enhanced reporting in dashboards rather than the tedious process of manual report generation, aided Wrench in choosing WRENCH over Acconex as the main stream system. With the introduction of Wrench, delays in generating key performance charts will be eliminated and will open up the gates for an easy data transfer. Wrench also will enforce the quality management processes and also ensure corporate standardisation across all projects.

About Murray & Roberts:

Murray & Roberts is South Africa's leading engineering, contracting and construction services company.

It has created employment, developed skills, installed infrastructure, delivered services, applied technology and built capacity throughout South and Southern Africa for 107 years, making a significant contribution to sustainable socio-economic development in the region.

Murray & Roberts operates in Southern Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australasia and North and South America from its home-base in Johannesburg South Africa, where it has a public listing on the JSE Limited. It has an international coordinating office in the United Kingdom and principle offices in Australia, Botswana, Canada, Namibia, United Arab Emirates and Zimbabwe.

Wrench-Enterprise will be implemented at the project site with the application server and the vault maintained at site to prevent possible issues due to internet connectivity failures. This site server will be connected to the Corporate central server and data will be replicated during off peak hours. Project stake holders can now access any project data online and all activities will be handled electronically and approval process will be automated through the digital workflow facility available in WRENCH-Enterprise. The project resources can access their To-Do-List in WRENCH-Ent and execute their work and the status and information will be captured online. Delayed activities will be notified and will be escalated if delay is beyond the accepted duration. All transaction (Correspondences, RFI, Transmittals etc.,) send to and received from Client, vendors and Sub contractors will be handled through WRENCH and the complete transaction with its history will be available online. With the Implementation of WRENCH-Enterprise Habtoor Leighton group will have all project data online and have a system that will ensure all schedules are completed as planned. The implementation of WRENCH for Site 611 (JAFZA Convention centre, valued at 1.6 Billion AED) is expected to be completed in 6 weeks duration by a 3 member from WRENCH Solutions and a 3 members from Habtoor Leighton Group.

About Habtoor Leighton Group: ( www. www.habtoorengg.ae)

Al Habtoor Engineering has grown into one of the largest construction companies in the Middle East, undertaking major projects throughout the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere. These include high-rise structures, mixed use developments, manufacturing units, airports, hotels, sports stadiums and arenas, entertainment facilities, retail facilities, public buildings and other diversified civil works. The company's highly qualified, experienced and professional team comprises an ever-growing multi-national workforce that totals over 35,000 employees.

On 1 September 2007, Leighton International, part of the Leighton Group, Australia's largest project development and contracting group, merged its operations in the Arabian Gulf region with Al Habtoor Engineering to create one of the largest multi-disciplined contracting groups in the Gulf - The Al Habtoor Leighton Group, in which the Al Habtoor Group holds a significant stake. Combining the strengths and expertise of two excellent companies, the objective of the Al Habtoor Leighton Group is to become one of the world's top 50 contractors in the field of large-scale infrastructure developments. Today, the Al Habtoor Leighton Group is one of the Middle East's leading construction and engineering companies - it ranks first in the field of building construction, proposing viable solutions as final products from engineering designs through adept project management and optimised construction completion.

Between 1990 and 1999, the rush to modernity became a torrent and Al Habtoor Engineering turned dreams into reality. Oil field facilities, the Dubai Crowne Plaza, the Armed Forces Officers' Club, the Jumeirah Beach Development (incorporating the Jumeirah Beach Hotel and Burj Al Arab) and numerous hotels and commercial buildings were the centrepieces of Al Habtoor Engineering's project diary. Strategic alliances became part of the business plan, especially for more demanding and technically complicated briefs. Other projects include the Burjuman Centre Shopping Mall, Terminal 3 Dubai International Airport, Jumeirah Beach Residence (8 high-rise towers), Business Bay (12 high-rise towers) and a number of single tower and villa complexes.

About Wrench Solutions (www.wrenchepc.com)

Wrench-Enterprise has evolved from the industry over a period of 15 years working with leading engineering organization and has their best practices. Wrench Solutions has been recognized for its innovation by Department science and technology, Govt of India and has funded it.

WRENCH-Enterprise is a proven integrated end-to-end I.T system which offers facility for Project monitoring, Resource management, Quality management, Engineering data management, Information security and knowledge management. Wrench-Enterprise is an integrated Project lifecycle management system which has been successfully implemented in leading Engineering companies in the Oil&Gas, Energy, Water and waste management, Infrastructure, Multi storey buildings, Industrial machinery and equipments etc., such as Ch2MHill VECO, Khatib & Alami, Metito Overseas LLC, L&T, Qatar Design Consortium, Simon Carves etc.,

WRENCH has been successfully implemented in Al Habtoor Leighton's 1.9 billion AED Jafza project in a record 3 weeks. Wrench-Enterprise was selected after a detailed evaluation done over a period of 6 months against product such as Aconex and other entry level DMS system by the team from HLG corporate IT and functional team.

The event involved brainstorming sessions between the top management executives throwing more light into the common challenges faced by the industry. Later on, Godrej and Tata Power presented a case study on the business benefits reaped by implementing the new concept.The seminar was held at the VITS Hotel, Mumbai on June 12th 2009.

InfraCAD, the dealer for Microstation and ProjectWise, signs up with Wrench Solutions as system integrated partners to market and implement wrench suit of product in the Middle East.

Automation and collaboration to reduce the cycle time of project and go GREEN.

Qatar. - Oct 19th , 2009 -  Energy City to adopt ‘lean & Green methodology'  in project Lifecycle management using WRENCH Enterprise^™, a technology which maximizes efficiency in planning, monitoring and execution of Infrastructure projects across the globe.  By replacing manually-driven processes with an automated, integrated platform, the region's first energy business-hub expects to reduce the cycle time by at least 40%, ensure 100% quality/compliance in project deliverables, and allow timely and effective collaboration among stakeholders, including its 70-plus contractors.

Energy City opted for WRENCH Enterprise^™ because of the richness and relevance of features offered, and its proven track record in the infrastructure projects. Unlike similar solutions (i.e. DMS and EDMS), WRENCH Enterprise^™ was created specifically for the project process and so incorporates industry best practices and knowledge of Infrastructure organizations' business needs and internal workings.

Energy City conducted an in-depth evaluations on several products that offered document/file management and web collaboration before choosing WRENCH. Results showed that no other system tied together all their requirements in a single solution, or offered unique advantages like automated enforcement of quality (ISO) and project correspondence management, or system-driven knowledge archival and multilevel security options. Seeing this, Energy City decided to adopt ‘Lean & Green' methodologies demonstrated by WRENCH Enterprise with a view to cutting out waste and improving efficiency across their entire project lifecycle and reduce the carbon footprint.

"We define ‘Lean & Green methodology' as a set of practices that make the project lifecycle efficient and cost-effective by cutting out everything not essential to customer satisfaction" said Varghese Daniel, Director of WRENCH Solutions. Our solution applies these practices to the project process via software technology. With it, companies like Energy City can reduce waste and increase efficiency, use their existing resources to maximum potential and also reduce the carbon footprint to the minimum by working in a paperless environment.

About Energy City 
Energy City Qatar (ECQ) is a pioneering development that will be the Gulf's first hydrocarbon industry hub. ECQ will be a single point of access to markets and expertise, the Middle East home for global players in the hydrocarbon value chain.  Developed by Gulf Energy, ECQ aims to attract the industry leaders in O&G production, International Oil Companies, National Oil Companies, support services, infrastructure and downstream activities, shipping and trading, market and resource data, intellectual property and energy trading.

BHEL-ISG (Industrial Systems Group) successfully completes the upgrade to the latest WRENCH-EPC software in a record 30-day period and deploys all ongoing projects. Three projects division of BHEL-ISG's namely ‘Balance of Plant' Division, ‘Thermal Plant' Division & ‘Coal Handling' Division have rolled out WRENCH.

BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited) is the largest engineering/manufacturing enterprise in India. BHEL manufactures over 180 products under 30 major product groups and caters to three core business sectors, namely; Power, Industry (Transmission, Transportation, Telecommunication & Renewable Energy) and Overseas Business.

WRENCH Solutions is all set to grab the limelight at the upcoming Project Challenge Spring Show, to be held in U.K. from March 12th to 13th, 2008. The Customer Voice Presentation by WRENCH Solutions at this prestigious industry event aims to provide 'real practical value and a very worthwhile learning experience'. Mr. Varghese Daniel would demonstrate (with Simon Carves as a case study) how WRENCH^TM technology fulfils the information+ process +security needs of multi-located engineering organizations.  With over 80 exhibiting organizations, and more than 40 high quality presentations to choose from, this event offers the organization an unparalleled opportunity to learn from leading industry experts.

Client presentation by :
Engineering Managers from TATA Power, Simon Carves & BHEL

Presentation on :
Latest WRENCH Enterprise™ & High-end servers and storage devices by HP and Redington

WRENCH Solutions signs up with Al Majed Software as their system integration partner for Qatar. Al Majed Software was successful in bagging the first order from the Qatar Design Consortium (QDC) a leading design and engineering company within a record time of less than two months

WRENCH Solutions has signed up with Gulf Marine Services (GMS), the largest Elevated Support Vessel operator in the Middle East, to implement WRENCH Enterprise for their marine business and ship repairs. The deal is bound to open up abundant opportunities for expansion of Wrench into the middle-east region.

GMS owns and operates Elevated Support Vessels as well as supply and AHTS vessels. In addition to this, GMS is also capable of supporting salvage and offshore towage.The Company was established in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates in 1977 and has an offshore base and head office in Mussaffah, Abu Dhabi. Currently, the company has a fleet of five modern jack-up barges and seven offshore supply and anchor handling vessels.

WRENCH Solutions has signed up with SCIL as their system integration partner. SCIL, is a Global Engineering Consultancy & Design Company with world-class engineering design expertise and stellar list of clients, is a member of Punj Lloyd Group.

With a fast-expanding Process Engineering Team, the company provides comprehensive EPC service to their clients located all over the world, in the fields of Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Clean Fuels, Chemical, Refinery, Power and Utility.

SCIL uses WRENCH Enterprise™ internally for managing their projects of their client. Some of their client will be provided with access to the Project data and project status information. By this the client can monitor the project status remotely, get access to the latest data (without depending on FTP), ensure that the Quality management processes are enforced and have complete security of the data produced by SCIL.

SCIL with their knowledge of Engineering processes and hands-on experience on WRENCH Enterprise™ will now offer service in defining the optimized business process and Implementing WRENCH-Enterprise for their clients to help the client manage their business process efficiently.

Chalmers - Established in 1977 in Dubai by Sam Chalmers, Chalmers Engineering has a presence throughout the United Arab Emirates with offices in Dubai, Jebel Ali and Abu Dhabi. Chalmers is a diversified engineering organization with a significant involvement in the marine industry

Khatib & Alami (Sharjah), ranked among the top 50 international engineering firms in the world, to rolled out all new projects on the latest WRENCH-EPC software. The various stages in the project, right from planning stage to the project completion stage, are now managed online through WRENCH. Some of the projects, which involve multiple engineering offices (Beirut, Cairo, Saudi) are now being integrated. With this methodology of working K&A can now take up project in any country and do Engineering in any of there office or there partner office. The project managers can now monitor the progress of the deliverables in real-time and access the latest Engineering information without depending in FTP or Email.

BHEL-TBG (Transmission Business Group) successfully completes upgrade to the latest WRENCH-EPC software and successfully rolled out latest three of the transmission projects online. BHEL-TBG is currently rolling out now all the running project. WRENCH-EPC has enabled BHEL-TBG to keep continuously keep track of the current status of all deliverables across various groups and to monitor projects effectively in real-time.

"We are now able to know the status of deliverables which are getting delayed much earlier so that we are able to take steps to prevent the delay." - Mr. Gautam Chaklader, (DGM-Engineering)