CPS Energy in Production with Integrated ArcFM™ Solution
The Largest City-Owned Electric and Gas Company in the US Benefits from GIS Solution
Fort Collins, CO -- CPS Energy of San Antonio is now in production using Telvent Miner & Miner’s ArcFM for land and electric distribution, and is in the development phase for the implementation of gas transmission and distribution. Also underway is the Designer project which will include integration to Logica’s WMIS. CPS Energy is the nation’s largest municipally owned energy company providing both natural gas and electric service. They serve more than 650,000 electric customers and more than 312,000 natural gas customers in and around San Antonio, Texas.
In November 2004, CPS Energy selected Telvent Miner & Miner (TM&M), together with ESRI and ABB, to implement an enterprise GIS and Outage Management Solution (OMS). CPS Energy wanted to move from their legacy system to a modern GIS integrated with OMS for the purposes of simplifying the design process, providing mobile design functionality, aiding in work crew management, and enhancing overall customer service. The GIS is integrated with several other vendor technologies including ABB’s OMS, CYME’s CymDist, and Advantica’s SynerGEE applications that allowed disparate processes to converge, enabling design, maintenance, and responses to occur within one streamlined system.
CPS Energy also has a near real time integration with ArcFM and SAP’s Customer Care System (CCS) and Plant Maintenance (PM) modules. This allows CPS Energy to perform planned maintenance activities in ArcFM using information from SAP. The interface also references daily consumption information in SAP, allowing ArcFM to carry out transformer load management studies. Other customer information from SAP is also referenced and updated in ArcFM.
CPS Energy has 35 editors and 200 viewers accessing the system and expects to have 130 designers in 2007. By implementing GIS, CPS Energy realized many benefits including improved design standardization, reduced design versus construction variance, improved map and asset record accuracy and timeliness, reduced underground locate liability, and improved engineering analysis support.
Fred James, Vice President of Engineering states, “ArcFM provides CPS Energy the graphical asset management within one system to efficiently maintain facilities and assets while integration to the other systems provides information and reduces duplication of data.”
Al Lujan, Senior Vice President of Energy Delivery Services, adds, “These projects are instrumental to help position CPS Energy for the future, from the perspective of being competitive, efficient, low cost, and customer centric.”
Telvent Miner & Miner (TM&M) is a world leader in the development and implementation of GIS software for utilities. TM&M’s ArcFM Solution and extended services assist electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities in increasing productivity, lowering costs, and improving services by allowing them to effectively manage spatial information. Founded in 1946 as a full-service electrical engineering firm, TM&M has been a business partner of ESRI since 1987. This partnership has enabled TM&M to become the world's leading developer of ArcGIS applications for the utility industry. TM&M services include implementation, integration, and customization of software to fit the needs of individual utilities. For more information, please visit www.telvent.com/miner/.
For more than 30 years, ESRI has been the leading developer of GIS software with more than 300,000 clients worldwide. ESRI also provides consulting, implementation, and technical support services. In addition to its headquarters in California, ESRI has regional offices throughout the United States, international distributors in more than 90 countries, and more than 1,700 business partners. ESRI's goal is to provide users with comprehensive tools to help them quickly and efficiently manage and use geographic information to make a real difference in the world around them. ESRI can be found on the Web at www.esri.com.
Telvent (NASDAQ: TLVT), the Global RealTime IT Company, specializes in high value added solutions and services in four industry sectors (Energy, Traffic, Transport and Environment). Its technology allows high performing companies to make real-time business decisions using data acquisition, control, and advanced operational applications, providing secure actionable information delivery to the enterprise. (www.telvent.com)
ArcFM Solution, ArcFM, ArcFM Viewer, Designer, Responder, Conduit Manager, and Network Adapter are trademarks of Miner and Miner, Consulting Engineers, Inc. Other companies and products mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective trademark owners.
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