Royal Dutch Shell has selected Polarion Requirements software as the foundation for managing and streamlining the flow of requirements across the company’s Global Capital Projects ecosystem.
Developed by Siemens Digital Industries, Polarion will enable Shell to accelerate its digital enterprise development as they further transition from document-centric communications to data-driven execution. It will improve the efficiency and flow of digital project data and integrated requirements throughout the Shell supply chain.
Shell uses Polarion, a contextual tool within Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of integrated software and services, to enable highly effective and transparent collaboration between its project development teams. The software connects the company’s project teams as they apply systems engineering techniques to rapidly and efficiently gather, author, approve, manage, and audit requirements for complex systems across the entire project lifecycle.
Siemens and Shell worked collaboratively to ensure that the Polarion solution was configured to accelerate Shell’s digital transformation goals. The strategy involved atomising corporate specification documents into data using Polarion to automatically create status reports, documents, and workflows that subsequently improve the organisation’s real-time availability of relevant standards content and requirements. As a result of the initiative, requirements previously managed in documents are now available as data to be modified and tracked via a user-friendly collaborative interface to support and deliver greater efficiency in engineering workflows across the project development lifecycle. Shell quickly expanded the use of Polarion to a substantial number of projects globally within the first year, following the technology’s initial deployment.
James Haug, General Manager, Systems Engineering, Shell, said the company invests billions of dollars each year in new capital projects, Powering Progress in the energy transition and working toward its climate target of being a net-zero energy emissions business by 2050, in step with society. “We need trusted partners to do this – which is why we are working with Siemens on a robust, comprehensive and innovative requirements solution. The Polarion Requirements software will be the lynchpin technology for advancing our digital enterprise. As we standardise on and deploy Polarion globally, we look forward to enhanced efficiencies and lower costs for Shell and for our supply chain and project ecosystems.”
John Nixon, Senior Director, Energy & Utilities Industry, Siemens Digital Industries Software, said by implementing a unified approach to requirements management, Polarion is helping Shell and its supply chain partners reduce their total cost of ownership, improve regulatory compliance, and accelerate time-to-value on assets.