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Asset Management - Risks & Opportunities in ISO 55000

6/6/2018

 
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Talking to three DSOs about the international ISO 55000 standard for their asset management systems, risk management was brought up as an intrinsic part of improving also asset management activities. As it often is an important development area for any company, I wanted to dig a little deeper into the topic.
As you may have heard, I had the privilege to visit the electricity DSOs (Distribution System Operators) Elenia, Elektrilevi and Caruna this spring to talk about their ISO 55000 asset management certification. Overall, the standard drives companies to look at the big picture of how they’re running their business, as it can be left a little scattered from, for example, organizational changes or the how-it’s-always-been-done habits. The asset management development project, then, becomes about gathering the entire puzzle together, one sub-area at a time.

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Asset Management - Utilities on ISO 55000

5/31/2018

 
Three DSO (Distribution System Operator) customers of ours made the decision to raise their asset management to the next level with the international ISO 55000 standard. However, it turns out the essence of such project lies not in the certification itself, but in something much more valuable.
ISO 55000 by 3 IOUs
​This spring, I’ve had the privilege to visit the electricity IOUs (Investor-Owned Utilities) Elenia, Elektrilevi and Caruna which have all obtained the ISO 55000 certification for their asset management system. The certification - or its comparables ISO 55001 or PAS55 - gives companies guidance for the best practices in their asset management, an essential area for the utility business. Rasmus Armas, Head of Asset Management at Elektrilevi, describes: “ISO 55000 is an overview of how the asset management system should work. It doesn’t give you answers or tell you what to do, but it gives you a way to decide for yourself what you want to do.”

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Future Networks - Microgrids and the Regulation

4/18/2018

 
Renewables, battery technologies, microgrids. They’re coming, in one form or another, that’s a given. But do they need to be a threat to the utilities of today? Or, could we think of ways to cooperate in order to turn the development into something great for us all – the utilities, the energy consumers, the entire society?
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Drawing from his interest that I introduced previously, the backcasting methodology, Tarmo Mere, Segment Director for Electric & Gas at Trimble Energy, encourages utilities to consider their decisions and actions today, in order to gain a better tomorrow. “As for the technologies affecting the utility business, for example the solar power will evolve, and it will become more efficient and more affordable for households and companies alike,” he states.

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Future Networks - Utilities Out of Business?

2/28/2018

 
Looking at the development pace for alternative energy sources, it’s only a question of time when a disruptive innovation wipes over the utility business. So what could be done today to keep the utilities in business, and what does the regulation have to do with it?
​Working on his doctoral dissertation on the future of electrical networks, Tarmo Mere, Segment Director for Electric & Gas at Trimble Energy, became familiar with the backcasting method a couple of years ago and found it interesting also for his professional life. “It is a process, or a methodology, not just to design the imaginable future but also to organize today’s work in order to make the preferred kind of a future a reality,” Tarmo explains.
What Future Utilities should Avoid Today to Stay in Business

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Optimized Asset Management - Tying It All Together

11/28/2017

 
There is no point in fixing bits and pieces, when it’s the big picture that matters. Benoit Mallen, business area director at Trimble Energy North America, is driven by helping utilities transform their overall business functions to be more effective, whether that be about software or internal processes, staking or outage management, investments or maintenance - it all counts.
Benoit finds that sometimes in utilities, there can be data flow barriers between different divisions, creating silos within the organization. “So we might see the engineering group or the asset management group look at their piece, their responsibility, without necessarily looking across other divisions to be able to tie that information together.”
Future of Asset Management?

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