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Automation, Technology Applications and Mobility
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
10:30 - 11:45 a.m.
EO 1G:Communication Alternatives
EO 1H: Major Breakthroughs for Mobile Work Management and Automatic Vehicle Location
This session reviews cutting-edge hardware and software technology, options for integration and potential cost savings in mobile work management and automatic vehicle location.
Skip McClimans
Power System Engineering
www.powersystem.org
Presentation
1:15 - 2:30 p.m.
IT/EO 2G: Utilizing the Full Potential of Your AMI System
How have different co-ops gained the full potential of their AMI systems? Learn everything from deployment planning and bulk communication choices to successful implementations and analytical processes to use the retrieved power quality information.
Jim Roche
Cannon Technologies - Cooper Power Systems
www.cannontech.com
EO/IT 2H: IEC61850 LAN, Considerations When Designing and Deploying the Ethernet Network
This session covers trends in electric utility automation and examines key issues and considerations when designing an Ethernet network for substation automation applications.
Rene Midence
RuggedCom, Inc.
www.ruggedcom.com
Presentation
Handout
3:00 - 4:15 p.m.
IT/EO 3F: Service Efficiency through Mobile Field Management
This two-part presentation focuses on the outstanding efforts of two co-ops to improve customer service and process efficiency through paperless operations initiatives.
Mobile Field Management Implementation for Paperless Efficiency
Aiken EC developed a paperless process using mobile laptops, Web service technology and wireless communications to reduce pressure on operations and improve customer service with more reliable information and real-time status of customer requests.
Improving Customer Service through Mobile Workforce Management
Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association implemented a “paperless utility” initiative in response to a period of unprecedented growth. The new system greatly improved customer service through faster response times and process efficiency.
Mobile Field Management Implementation for Paperless Efficiency
John Mark Bolton
Coastal EMC
www.coastalemc.com
Presentation
Improving Customer Service Through Mobile Workforce Management
Lance Hovland
Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association
www.whe.org
Brian Driscoll
Powel, Inc.
SCM/EO 3H: What Sensors Are Really Telling You
Friday, February 22, 2008
7:45 - 9:00 a.m.
EO 4G: Sectionalizing with New Technology
This RUS Sectionalizing Bulletin update will explain how new recloser technologies will increase line worker efficiency, provide overall safety in any weather condition and influence future processes for your co-op.
Joe Dorough
Jackson EMC
Presentation
Kenneth Workman
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
www.selinc.com
Presentation
9:15 - 10:30 a.m.
IT 5E : Network Monitoring
Look at commercial and open-source network monitoring tools that help you prepare for unpredictable events such as power supply burn outs, bandwidth drops and hacked networks. Learn what works for free and what works even better for the money.
Del Thompson
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
www.basinelectric.com
Presentation
EO 5F: Making Sense of the Intelligent Grid
This session assesses current and upcoming challenges and examines smart grid technologies and applications that will be required to meet upcoming challenges, such as generation expansion, fuel risks, environmental effects and distributed generation.
Robert Sarfi
Boreas Group LLC
www.boreasgroup.us
Roger Schneider
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative
10:45 a.m. - noon
EO 6E: Will Your Grid Be Smart Enough for the 21st Century?
This session assesses current and upcoming challenges and examines smart grid technologies and applications that will be required to meet upcoming challenges, such as generation expansion, fuel risks, environmental effects and distributed generation.
Steven Collier
Milsoft Utility Solutions
www.milsoft.com
IT 6F: Maximizing Your AMI System
Based on the recent CRN report “AMI: Value Beyond Meter Reading,” this session explores advanced AMI applications that co-ops are using to increase operational efficiency and customer satisfaction, such as transformer load sizing, planning and forecasting, demand response and load management.
Rick Schmidt
Power System Engineering, Inc.
www.powersystem.org
Presentation
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