GridWorx™ - Infrastructure Management Tool

Using GridWorx™ to manage any type of asset, unplanned downtime is minimized, unscheduled maintenance is reduced, investment in inventory is decreased, parts available is ensured, sourcing and procurement is streamlined, overall operational performance is improved, and the need for new capital expenditures is reduced.

Every company has critical assets which have a direct and significant impact on performance and profitability. The GridWorx™ suite offers asset and work management capabilities while integrating materials management and purchasing capabilities into the system. This allows a company to maximize productivity while also extending the life of their assets.

GridWorx™ Utilities Management System Services the Unique Needs of:

• Pipeline
• Gas
• Electric
• Water
• Wastewater
• Telephone
• Cable
• Internet

Utility companies have the data required to identify maintenance trends, determine the actual cost of operation of their assets, and develop asset management strategies by analyzing asset maintenance costs and work history. With the GridWorx™ system, both time and money are cut from the maintenance process and parts availability is ensured, while decreasing inventory investment and streamlining contract and sourcing management.

Key Benefits and Features:

• Open data format
• Easily shares facility-related data with other company applications
• Improves company-wide productivity with system integration
• Lowers operating costs
• Enhances decision-support capabilities
• Saves time with automatic generation of diagrams and schematics
• A broad range of design documentation capabilities
• Prevents accidental concurrent project access which can corrupt a data model
• Reports available in both graphical or tabular reports
• Ability to manage meter inventories and create
• Enhance data quality by importing data from work orders all from the same source
• Single data entry saves time and money by eliminating external data files and database platforms redundant work and facilitates the revision process
• Automatically updates attribute data and cross referencing data in the projects design files
• Uses an interface software that integrates with corporate applications and other management tools
• Ties in with work order management and asset-transaction systems in the architecture
• Reporting for improved decision making
• Links key design functions seamlessly, including schematic, panel layout, cable block diagrams, and wiring design for increased productivity
• Easy record keeping for purchasing and complianced documentation
• Utilizes a single application for a variety of schematic types

Electric
The GridWorx™ system provides powerful tools to support the facilities and asset management needs of electric distribution and transmission companies. It links critical workflow processes into an integrated IT environment. Integrating geofacilities management with operational support and service-delivery applications enables these systems to cooperate seamlessly in managing the planning, design, construction, operations, maintenance, and emergency response functions of an electric utility. It offers powerful functionality that helps an organization automate work processes, comply with corporate or project standards, and keep electrical data current though the lifetime of a plant.

Gas
Companies look forward knowing that their competitive edge depends largely on their ability to take advantage of current and future technological advances. Maintaining a competitive advantage requires operational systems that work together with mission-critical business systems to deliver a complete view of an organzation. Such a system can only be delivered by applications that are built upon a standards-based Internet architecture.

Pipeline
A management system created for transmission companies with support for stationing and interfaces to popular engineering analysis and asset management packages, DOT compliance applications, and other third-party systems.

Water / Wastewater
The system provides a suite of geofacilities management applications based on water/wastewater industry best practices and offers unprecedented openness and seamless integration with other corporate applications, streamlining the day-to-day tasks of model design and maintenance, and enabling ad hoc and routine analysis of the model, as well as enterprise Web data access. The system is designed to help manage many of the aspects of a complex water and wastewater project - from initial data entry to maintenance and reporting. Provides tools that allow the user to create, validate, maintain, and analyze network data. The validation system locates and displays features that violate the data model and queues them up for efficient editing.

GIS for Operations and Maintenance

* Many utilities have discovered the value of GIS for improving day-to-day operations. GIS can be used to closely model utility networks and integrate other related types of data such as raster images and CAD drawings. GIS spatial selection and display tools allow users to visualize scheduled work, ongoing activities, recurring maintenance problems, and historical information.

* The topological characteristics of a GIS database can support network tracing and can be used to analyze specific properties or services that may be impacted by such events as stoppages, main breaks, drainage defects, and so forth. Dynamic segmentation can also be used to derive a generalized network that combines hydraulically similar sections into larger strips to make pressure and flow analysis algorithms run more efficiently. GIS can perform many other operations and maintenance tasks, including work order and warehouse inventory management and SCADA.

* Water agencies use GIS to map the full extent of their water distribution systems and link them to a database defining each element including reservoirs, pipe segments, services, and system appurtenances.

* GIS provides you with an intelligent database so that job planning, equipment inventory, and flow analysis become an automated procedure integrated into one system. You can link your current network modeling system to the GIS, tie it to the attribute data, and map the results.

* GIS allows you to represent a project in three-dimensional form to visualize the impact of facilities on landscape during the design process. This data can then be combined with other computer-aided engineering functions to assist the engineering designer in the planning and scenario testing of various designs.

The GridWorx™ system provides a comprehensive set of solutions to meet the strategic asset management needs of any organization. The solution can be deployed on a single machine for small to medium-sized companies, yet its scalability and performance can meet the demands of large global, distributed organizations that operate multiple sites. The system can also improve management in the areas of finance, materials, and supply chain, and optimizes utilization of equipment.

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