Georgia Power Selects Designer™
for GIS-based Design Application
A Southern Company Division Will Benefit from Integrated Workflow
Fort Collins, CO -- Georgia Power, the largest of five electric utilities that make up Southern Company, has announced their selection of Designer, a GIS-based design application from Miner & Miner, a Telvent company. The implementation of Designer, which includes embedded ArcFM tools for asset and facilities management, will assist the investor-owned utility in more efficiently providing electricity to their 2.1 million customers in the state of Georgia.
The implementation of a GIS-based design and facilities management application will allow the utility to take advantage of a streamlined environment for preparing construction work sketches and job cost estimates in line with their business processes. Functionality such as automatic network connectivity, a seamless database, increased usability, and additional tools such as structural analysis - which provides variables for evaluating structural integrity - will create an effective solution for improving operations.
Phyllis Cox, Georgia Power GIS Manager, said, “Our engineers believe our customers will benefit from the streamlined responses to service requests resulting from the integration with our work management systems. We also plan to move toward a more mobile work environment utilizing Mobile Designer.”
Currently, Georgia Power operates a customized AutoCAD-based application for design, but lacks an integrated workflow with their in-house work management system (WMS). The new solution will minimize redundancy of data and effort with the integration to their WMS and expedite the design process.
Tami Barron, General Manager for Georgia Power Distribution Services, said, “We are pleased to select Designer to aid our company in achieving additional operational efficiencies and continue improving reliability for our customers.”
The four other divisions of Southern Company will also leverage Designer and have plans for future rollouts of the solution across the enterprise.
Miner & Miner (M&M), a Telvent company, is a world leader in the development and implementation of GIS software for utilities. M&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, M&M has been a business partner of ESRI since 1987. This partnership has enabled M&M to become the world's leading developer of ArcGIS applications for the utility industry. M&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/.
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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