Siemens and Miner & Miner Announce Strategic Partnership
ArcFM™ Solution Provider and Siemens System Integration Group join forces to benefit the utility industry
Vienna, Austria, and Fort Collins, CO -- Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) and Miner & Miner (M&M) recently formed a strategic alliance. Miner & Miner (M&M) and Siemens PTD division Energy Management and Information Systems are teaming to provide Enterprise GIS products and system integration services to energy utilities throughout the world.
Siemens PTD has extensive experience in implementing and managing large IT projects. They have worked on numerous international contracts, offering services for system integration, program management, and implementations to meet the needs of their clients. The company has an excellent reputation with energy companies for their ability to deliver services on time and within budget.
Miner & Miner is the developer of the ArcFM Solution and is a business partner of ESRI, the world leader in developing GIS software. The ArcFM Solution is a powerful suite of utility GIS applications that are designed to bring significant business benefits to an organization. By leveraging the relationship with Siemens, the industry will have a compelling and renowned set of partners working together to ensure the professional delivery of a complete solution.
“Miner & Miner's ESRI-based ArcFM solution combined with Siemens's operational experience helps our joined customers to improve the management of their assets,” says Dr. Armin Bruck, President of Energy Management and Information Systems division of Siemens PTD. “Miner & Miner is a very valuable partner and strengthens the Siemens solution offerings in the Transmission and Distribution area.”
Siemens and M&M are already working in cooperation at Hydro One Networks Inc., a large transmission and distribution company utility serving 1.2 million customers within the Province of Ontario. Siemens PTD EM is providing program management and integration support and M&M is providing implementation services for its Designer product. The project will revolve around streamlining the design, estimating, and as-builting process at Hydro One and include integration to work management.
“We are pleased to have such a strong partner in the energy utility business,” states Jeff Meyers, President of Miner & Miner. “Siemens's insight into the everyday, real time operations in a utility, coupled with the breadth of functionality found in the ArcFM Solution, will provide very valuable assets for our joint users.”
About Siemens PTD
The Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution Group (PTD), Erlangen, Germany, ensures as a product supplier, system integrator and service provider reliable transmission of electrical energy from the generating plant to the consumer. Conventional products such as switchgear and transformers nowadays account for only about half of the Groupīs sales. More than 30 percent now comes from products and systems concerned with electronics, information technology, communications and software; the figure covered by service business is already as much as 20 percent. With a workforce of about 16,400 and 40 manufacturing locations around the world, Siemens PTD achieved in the 2002 fiscal year (ended September 30) sales of 4.2 billion euros and earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) of 109 million euros.
About Miner & Miner
Miner & Miner (M&M) is a world leader in the development and implementation of GIS software for utilities. M&M's ArcFM Solution and its 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 and customization of software to fit the needs of individual utilities. For more information, please visit www.miner.com.
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