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Profile
The Client is among the largest and fastest-growing electric utilities in the United States providing more than four million homes and businesses with clean, reliable electric power and energy services.
 
Situation
The client is facing serious operational problems due to power outages triggered by faulty transmission system and natural disasters like hurricanes etc. It needs a cost-effective solution that would allow pinpointing of power-related problems in a proactive, timely and efficient manner for improved customer satisfaction. The existing system used by client consists of disparate Applications catering to Vegetation Management, Condition Assessment, and Geographic Information System etc.
 
Cognizant’s Solution
The solution proposed by Cognizant is part of Transmission System Strategy to create a system architecture that will help to support all business processes of the departments responsible for maintenance and construction of the transmission power network. Cognizant is involved in finalizing the business and functional requirements for this software solution, helping the client to realize the business benefits of this solution. This system will use mobile devices to capture data from field, allow upload from remote field device to Central Database and vice versa, provide GIS Landbase and GPS co-ordinates of Assets, allow testing of equipment etc., thereby ensuring availability of latest information at all times, quicker turnaround, higher data accuracy and optimal operation environment.
 
Benefit
The following benefits are envisaged from the development of this system
  • Improvements in accuracy of asset inventory data
  • Identification and targeting of work required to maintain system reliability in order to keep the power flowing
  • Optimization of resource assignments through prioritization of maintenance activities according to problem type, severity and level of impact on system reliability equipment lifetime
  • Cost savings as a result of improving its supply chain efficiencies, inventory assessment capabilities, workload estimation and capture the results of on-field assessment of components and machines
  • Common Workflow across different system to improve process efficiency and reduce system complexity
  • Benefits due to Integration of disparate systems resulting in better work management Asset information management, condition assessment, reliability and performance analysis
  • Optimization of maintenance activities
  • Added functionality of Equipment Testing, resulting in efficient Asset Lifecycle Management
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Tim Brennan,
IT Director, US Cold Storage
 


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