Colonial Pipeline Company was challenged to maintain and support a completely custom .NET middleware application designed to move data from a dedicated field data collection system to APDM, a highly specialized enterprise GIS data model for pipeline operators. This middleware application provides business functions that help Colonial track and report on numerous work activities, asset condition and meet critical regulatory requirements. Colonial chose to use FME Workbench and FME Server to replace the .NET application with a more reliable, supportable and easily extended solution. The final solution is an elegant, modular set of scripts that leverage many of the powerful tools FME provides including: • Executing SQL within the Workbench throughout the process • Rules based calculations and transformations • Conflict detection • Execution and error notification • Scheduled execution via FME Server • In Workbench documentation using annotation

1. Let’s Make the Data
Dance

2. • Bradley Hood - GIS
Analyst Global Information
Systems
• Tripp Holderfield – GIS
Analyst and FME Server
Administrator Colonial
Pipeline Company

3. THE PURPOSE
Take data from
proprietary field data
collection system.
Spatialize it and load into
an enterprise GIS for
publication and
distribution throughout
the organization.

4. THE CHALLENGE
Field reports write to tables related to their
template type, but many templates write have the
potential to write to the same template i.e. a
mitigation report and a pipe inspection report
both have the potential to create a coating record
in the coating table.

5. THE PLAN
Utilize FME to create a chain of workbenches to
read, manipulate data from the field collection
system and then push to the enterprise GIS. (With
an eventual deployment to FME Server)

6. THE WORKSPACE

7. THE SOLUTION
We created a group of
workbenches that
group templates as the
customer does.
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8. THE SOLUTION
Then we created a
group of modules. Of
sub forms that exist in
different templates
02

9. THE SOLUTION
This gave us way to
handle changes or
updates to sub forms
in without have to visit
several different
workbenches
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10. THE NEXT CHALLENGE
FME Server Deployment

11. THANK YOU!
globalinformationsystems.com
bradley.hood@gisllc.com

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