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Mobile Asset Management - Utilities on the Development

6/27/2018

 
Mobile Asset Management - Utilities on the Development
​So the world is going mobile and the utilities, no matter how big or small, are going with it. Talking to 5 different electricity utilities about their mobile future, I learned this: Challenges aside, the new technologies bring benefits beyond just switching paper into tablets - they bring a possibility to start working in a whole different way, even renewing entire processes. Processes whose quality, in turn, is measured to the max at major outages.
Today, utilities already use a variety of mobile solutions for various activities, like work order management, filling in data such as meter identification at a changeout, work hour reporting, safety and quality reporting, and even managing the surveillance cameras at substations. On top of those, there are the services for the utility customers, for example, for checking their consumption data or reporting an outage. Also - and quite importantly - many of our customers have their field crews bring the network to the field in tablets or smartphones with Utility To Go, using it, for example, in network planning, maintenance including component inspections, and operations both by in-house technicians and contractors.

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Vegetation Analysis - Practice Meets Science

4/4/2018

 
Vegetation management makes up for one of the largest, if not the largest, maintenance expenditures for the electricity utilities, and luckily, there are more and more methods available to improve the process. NM Group, a part of Trimble Energy, appreciates academic collaboration as a valuable way to bring rigour into the vegetation analysis capabilities.
Sophie Davison Mastering the Vegetation Analytics
​“If done well, an efficient and accurately informed vegetation management program can save a utility a large amount of money and improve network reliability through more accurately identified true vegetation hazards and reduced numbers, if any, of false vegetation hazards,” explains Sophie Davison, Vegetation Products Manager at NM Group in UK. On the contrary, the consequences of poor vegetation management can get costly. Sophie continues: “Inefficiency or using inaccurate data can lead to outages, regulatory fines, increased management costs and, in the worst cases, vegetation related fires and associated lawsuits.”

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Utility Maintenance - Risk-Based Decisions

1/30/2018

 
When thinking about the different ways of doing maintenance, we often consider either taking a time-based approach, or taking the focus only on the condition of our assets. But what role does criticality play in the decision-making? How well are we able prioritize keeping the supply to a, say, hospital in the best possible condition?
Are All Network Components Equal in Importance?
As Teemu Heusala, a product manager at Trimble Energy, puts it: “It’s one thing to have the maintenance data in a database but another thing to also be able utilize it efficiently.” And truly, also the maintenance talk gets to a whole new level of efficiency when you start looking at prioritizing your maintenance efforts to the network components where the effects of a fault for the rest of your network would be the highest.

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Utility Maintenance - Transforming the Maintenance Planning

12/7/2017

 
Empower Your Field Crews!
The traditional way of doing maintenance planning includes a foreman assigning tasks to a number of field crews. However, the work planning at the office is never as good as it is in the field - there might be crews doing other jobs, repair works or construction close by - and sending yet another group there for maintenance just doesn’t make much sense. So could it be done differently?
Teemu Heusala, product manager at Trimble Energy, has put a lot of thought into the maintenance processes, studying the current workflows at utilities and discovering ways to streamline them. “The problem with the traditional maintenance planning is,” Teemu explains, “that even though the foreman tries to optimize the field work efficiency, he or she doesn’t have all the information that is available in the field.” There might be field groups on different assignments at locations where there are also maintenance needs, or, at worst, a field crew is assigned a maintenance task only to realize they were just there. This causes idle driving, which, as we all know, gets expensive.

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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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