AspectCTRM is the only Web-based trade, risk and operations management solution.
Fuel Marketers can now benefit from this leading professional system with an efficient
and cost-effective way to manage streams of trading and transport activity. Traders, risk
managers, schedulers, procurement and back-office personnel rely on this comprehensive,
affordable solution.
With DTN Guardian3 for ethanol terminal automation, you can optimize inventory and demand, manage volumetric and weighed products, and ensure safety and security.
Download the file now to learn it al about DTN Guardian3.
The Mine Central Control Room: From Concept to Reality Schneider Electric
Presented at the 2013 Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Annual Meeting (SME 2013). The main concept of a central control room is the ability to gather and automatically transform information from different sources and mines into business decisions, centralizing and monitoring them from a single location. This central control room also acts as a complete repository of all business operations including mine planning, metrics, asset management, quality and process control, surveillance, sustainability data, emissions, energy efficiency projects, weather and more.
As presented at the 2015 SPS Nuremberg Show:
Meet our Industry experts on:
- The Industrial Internet of Things: an Evolution to a Smart Manufacturing Enterprise by Clemens Blum. Learn More: http://www.schneider-electric.com/b2b/en/campaign/internet-of-things/industry.jsp?
- SMART Machines: what they are and how they contribute to the future of the industry by Dr. Rainer. Learn More: http://www.schneider-electric.com/b2b/en/solutions/system/s1/machine-control.jsp
An accurate, up-to-date model of a utility’s distribution network is the backbone of Smart Grid technologies. But a Schneider Electric survey shows that 74% of utilities are concerned about the readiness of their network model to support Smart Grid applications. This paper presents a quantitative comparison of a Geographic Information System (GIS)–based graphic work design system vs. a CAD-based tool, demonstrating how the GIS-based design approach is better able to keep up with the continuous changes in a dynamic electrical distribution network.
[Case study] City Utilities of Springfield - Solution offers one version of t...Schneider Electric
Project Type:
Operational utility solutions
Applications:
Provides a graphical, data-rich environment that displays the information utilities need for
maximum reliability and efficiency
Customer benefits:
• Improved efficiency
• Ensure more accurate information
• Better outage managment
• Highly configurable and easily adapted for
multiple uses
This presentation discusses the future of machine building that is taking place today; trends in integrated automation and how designers are developing more energy-efficient and cost-effective machines while maximizing their performance; trends such as remote monitoring, energy management, how you can gain a better understanding of your energy situation, and how this constraint can be an opportunity for growth.
The fact that a Meter Data Management (MDM) system is the single, secure repository for the millions of data points collected by an AMI makes it the logical solution for data analytics such as validation, editing and estimation that improve the accuracy of billing information. Yet, as a single-source system of record, the MDM also is the starting point for integration of meter-read data with other enterprise systems to improve real-time efficiency of network operations and business processes.
The MDM with meter modelling components and standardized connectivity can integrate with the utility geodatabase (GIS) and outage management system (OMS) to significantly streamline outage detection and restoration verification.
MDM integrated with the utility supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system or distribution management system (DMS) allows comparison of information at substation/net-stations with aggregated meter data to detect potential theft or network loss during distribution. Similar aggregate comparison helps analyse power quality, identify demand trending and forecast demand. These network analysis capabilities empower accurate asset planning and the utility’s ability to meet demand without adding more capacity.
In all of these enterprise-level functions, MDM integration with the GIS provides valuable visualization that facilitates operator and analyst identification of areas of concern or opportunity.
The real-time network intelligence possible with such a powerful MDM solution can return substantial benefits to several utility operations and business processes — well beyond the initial-level billing accuracy improvement.
With DTN Guardian3 for ethanol terminal automation, you can optimize inventory and demand, manage volumetric and weighed products, and ensure safety and security.
Download the file now to learn it al about DTN Guardian3.
The Mine Central Control Room: From Concept to Reality Schneider Electric
Presented at the 2013 Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Annual Meeting (SME 2013). The main concept of a central control room is the ability to gather and automatically transform information from different sources and mines into business decisions, centralizing and monitoring them from a single location. This central control room also acts as a complete repository of all business operations including mine planning, metrics, asset management, quality and process control, surveillance, sustainability data, emissions, energy efficiency projects, weather and more.
As presented at the 2015 SPS Nuremberg Show:
Meet our Industry experts on:
- The Industrial Internet of Things: an Evolution to a Smart Manufacturing Enterprise by Clemens Blum. Learn More: http://www.schneider-electric.com/b2b/en/campaign/internet-of-things/industry.jsp?
- SMART Machines: what they are and how they contribute to the future of the industry by Dr. Rainer. Learn More: http://www.schneider-electric.com/b2b/en/solutions/system/s1/machine-control.jsp
An accurate, up-to-date model of a utility’s distribution network is the backbone of Smart Grid technologies. But a Schneider Electric survey shows that 74% of utilities are concerned about the readiness of their network model to support Smart Grid applications. This paper presents a quantitative comparison of a Geographic Information System (GIS)–based graphic work design system vs. a CAD-based tool, demonstrating how the GIS-based design approach is better able to keep up with the continuous changes in a dynamic electrical distribution network.
[Case study] City Utilities of Springfield - Solution offers one version of t...Schneider Electric
Project Type:
Operational utility solutions
Applications:
Provides a graphical, data-rich environment that displays the information utilities need for
maximum reliability and efficiency
Customer benefits:
• Improved efficiency
• Ensure more accurate information
• Better outage managment
• Highly configurable and easily adapted for
multiple uses
This presentation discusses the future of machine building that is taking place today; trends in integrated automation and how designers are developing more energy-efficient and cost-effective machines while maximizing their performance; trends such as remote monitoring, energy management, how you can gain a better understanding of your energy situation, and how this constraint can be an opportunity for growth.
The fact that a Meter Data Management (MDM) system is the single, secure repository for the millions of data points collected by an AMI makes it the logical solution for data analytics such as validation, editing and estimation that improve the accuracy of billing information. Yet, as a single-source system of record, the MDM also is the starting point for integration of meter-read data with other enterprise systems to improve real-time efficiency of network operations and business processes.
The MDM with meter modelling components and standardized connectivity can integrate with the utility geodatabase (GIS) and outage management system (OMS) to significantly streamline outage detection and restoration verification.
MDM integrated with the utility supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system or distribution management system (DMS) allows comparison of information at substation/net-stations with aggregated meter data to detect potential theft or network loss during distribution. Similar aggregate comparison helps analyse power quality, identify demand trending and forecast demand. These network analysis capabilities empower accurate asset planning and the utility’s ability to meet demand without adding more capacity.
In all of these enterprise-level functions, MDM integration with the GIS provides valuable visualization that facilitates operator and analyst identification of areas of concern or opportunity.
The real-time network intelligence possible with such a powerful MDM solution can return substantial benefits to several utility operations and business processes — well beyond the initial-level billing accuracy improvement.
The Cloud Computing model is replacing the traditional IT model for many organizations that have not been able to keep up with the tremendous rate at which technology is changing, the challenges of disparate IT systems inherited through acquisitions and mergers, and decreasing internal resources available for IT commitment.
Cloud Computing models range from public cloud services that bill companies for access to IT infrastructure; the private cloud provider that hosts resources for the sole use of its own organization; dedicated external hosting to non-shared resources; and hybrid hosting, a mixed solution of cloud computing and dedicated hosting.
Schneider Electric consulting experts use their Cloud Assessment Checklist to help potential clients identify the computer services needs that best meet their IT challenges. It is not uncommon to find that an organization would optimize operation with a hybrid hosting solution in which a secure, single-tenant database would be stored with a dedicated host and the front-end would be hosted in the public cloud. Similarly, cloud bursting functionality enables the organization to automatically deploy new applications within the public cloud as needed. Such hybrid hosting models allow scaling capability to accommodate an increase in the number of users in the organization and meet peak traffic demand.
Careful examination of business and security characteristics can determine the proper cloud and hosting model that meets the needs of any particular enterprise and, as a result, help increase the organization’s IT capabilities and productivity while adding value to the business.
[White Paper] Europe’s Window of Opportunity for Terminal OperatorsSchneider Electric
As Europe is going through an unprecedented financial and economic crisis,
the oil and gas industry continues to face an uncertain business environment.
Another recession could lead to reduced demand and further increase the
pressure on margins in downstream operations. This has suppliers and buyers
looking to exploit any operational efficiency they can.
Terminal operators play a critical role in helping suppliers and buyers achieve
those efficiencies, and can benefit their own operations while doing so. To gain
a competitive edge, terminal operators need to be mindful of the big trends
in the industry and make sure that their Terminal Automation System (TAS)
is capable of supporting state-of-the-art supply management systems that
suppliers intend to use in order to maximize their efficiency. And for most TAS,
a simple configuration change is all it takes to achieve this.
[Case study] Benton Public Utility District: Reducing labor costs while impro...Schneider Electric
Project Type:
Operational utility solutions
Applications:
Provide a graphical view of a utility’s infrastructure and tools that support cost reduction through simplified planning, analysis and operational response times.
[Oil & Gas White Paper] Control Room Management - Alarm Management Schneider Electric
Industry best practices call for pipeline operators to define a clear alarm management plan that helps avoid controller overload and ensures alarms are accurate and support safe pipeline operation. Review of controller workload is key in this program, as it can provide the most critical information on how to improve the performance of an alarm system and the controllers monitoring it. Controller performance can be impaired when deluged with too many SCADA alarms, a significant increase in the number of points being monitored and alarms related to communications, which all add to other attention-demanding activities not directly related to alarms.
Developing a program to analyze and continually improve the alarm system includes identification of the operator’s Alarm Philosophy: identifying what constitutes an alarm, who manages it, how it is managed and how training and change of management are carried out. Other best practices of an alarm management program include benchmark and performance audits; rationalisation to determine which SCADA alarms warrant response; and implementation, in an auditable manner, of actions defined.
When implementing an alarm management improvement program, the highest benefit is realised through strategies that involve little advanced technology. These high benefit strategies include alarm storm reviews, tuning alarm settings on nuisance alarms and fixing known issues; adjusting deadbands of repeating alarms; and eliminating alarms with no defined response. Strategies of medium benefit include suppression of alarms from ‘out of service’ stations; replacing absolute alarms with deviation alarms; and filtering, de-bouncing, or suppressing repeater alarms. Other advanced alarm improvement strategies that can provide additional benefit after initial strategies have been implemented include use of dynamic alarm thresholds, operator-set alarms and operational mode suppression. Tracking improvement in the alarm program after modifications are made is important, especially as operations bring in larger point counts.
Schneider Electric actively participates in industry alarm management programs to assure its advanced-technology Control Room Management solution targets best practices and meets new regulations for improved alarm management in the pipeline sector and other control implementations.
While many utilities look forward to the benefits of deploying smart grid technology, they need help on where and how to start. A manageable distribution management system (DMS) pilot implementation is a good kickoff toward the smart grid goal, because it successfully demonstrates the possibilities while it builds support from stakeholders across the enterprise. Schneider Electric helps the utility implement the DMS pilot, using a phased Build — Learn — Plan — Execute approach.
In such a DMS pilot project, the company works with a small team of utility personnel knowledgeable of the organization’s network data stores and analytical functions. They build a fully operational load flow model that represents a subset of the network and reflects circuit data from the GIS database or other sources and includes two HV/MV substations and four to eight feeders, ideally with the switches and enough load profile data to support some switching and basic optimization functionality.
In the Learn phase of the DMS pilot, team members evaluate functionality of the model and completeness and accuracy of the data used. Tuning the model builds team confidence in its understanding of the data needed and the accuracy of the basic DMS algorithms.
In the Plan phase, the utility identifies current business plan and internal and external drivers toward grid automation, considering throughout the political and regulatory environments. A strategy is designed to remove obstacles and achieve identified goals.
In the final Execute phase, the utility will contract for software and services; train core team; develop system configuration and convert data; and finally deploy the system with site acceptance testing and rollout.
This fastrack DMS implementation gets the utility started and moving at the ‘speed of value’ as it builds confidence in DMS technology. It offers a proof-of-concept of DMS benefits across the organization — more reliable service, reduction of peak demand, utility cost savings and more.
Field Data Gathering Services — A Cloud-Based ApproachSchneider Electric
Utilities today wish to facilitate the capture of asset information in the field in a way that is not only scalable but cost effective. They need a system that is simple to use, inexpensive to implement, flexible enough to meet ever-changing needs, yet also powerful enough to cover a majority of their needs with immediacy. This paper describes Schneider Electric's powerful cloud-based solution to optimize the inspection and gathering of field information.
70% of data center outages are directly attributable to human error according to the Uptime Institute’s analysis of their “abnormal incident” reporting (AIR) database1. This figure highlights the critical importance of having an effective operations and maintenance (O&M) program. This paper describes unique management principles and provides a comprehensive, high-level overview of the necessary program elements for operating a mission critical facility efficiently and reliably throughout its life cycle. Practical management tips and advice are also given.
Learning simulators reflect the expertise of software programmers, technical experts and learning professionals in creating real-life workplace scenarios that require decision making on the part of the training employee. Not to be confused with e-learning or laboratory practice, these simulators offer the flexibility to address the aptitudes, tools and motivations specific for the employee’s role. By actively involving trainees and exposing them to the consequences and results of their decisions, learning is improved significantly compared to training that does not involve interactivity. This approach also improves the trainee’s motivation and confidence. Organizations benefit not only from more comprehensive employee knowledge but also heightened on-the-job employee engagement – all with less training cost and time invested.
Business sectors that see particular advantage to learning simulators are public utilities, industrial machinery, transportation, education, social services, and hotel and restaurant services. Beyond learning the processes and procedures involved and the relevant regulations and safety guidelines for the specific sector, the employee gains appropriate customer interaction skills through real-world scenarios requiring decision making and evaluation of the results of those decisions.
Schneider Electric has developed learning simulators that have proven highly successful for Ministry-level programs and for industry federations in Spain; for risk prevention programs in regional governments; and socially and environmentally sustainable practices in construction work. In these projects, Schneider Electric provided comprehensive definition, design, and technical development and production expertise to help clients realize the benefits of effective learning simulation.
This survey was conducted in January 2016 among 400 U.S. facility leaders in establishments including data centers, commercial and industrial buildings, retail, healthcare, education, government and other building environments. Respondents have responsibility related to purchasing energy and technology solutions, and their biggest responsibilities included facility management and operations management. Facility managers are increasingly adapting their building maintenance strategies in response to the Internet of Things (IoT).
Stimulus grants awarded under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) encourage the development of broadband networks that create jobs; spur investments in technology and infrastructure; and deliver long-term economic benefits. These projects are under tight timeframes to put stimulus money to use immediately; and often the pressure of designing, building and reporting progress makes comprehensive network data management a lesser project priority.
However, data accessibility by network operators and subscribing providers is vital to efficient network completion and maintenance and successful business development. Maine Fiber Company, Inc., realized this when it began constructing a 1,100-mile, high capacity fiber optic network to extend middle-mile connectivity across the state of Maine. Using its Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) federal stimulus grant and private investments, it began building this network from scratch, tracking the network with legacy data formats such as internet maps, CAD and paper files to model cable routes. It soon realized the need for network information management technology that would support cost-efficient construction and maintenance of its expansive and dispersed network area.
The company found that centralizing asset and network data as a single geodatabase, using ArcFM™ Fiber Manager, streamlines network data availability across the enterprise. This solution eliminates the time and costs of maintaining multiple databases and provides the segment length and cost accuracy critical to its business model. Flexibility enables the solution to grow with the company, and cross-departmental data sharing supports efficient circuit planning, analysis and reporting. This advanced enterprise GIS technology supports decision making across the organization that not only streamlines the broadband business startup but also makes long-term management efficient and accurate.
Leveraging Cloud-based Building Management Systems for Multi-site FacilitiesSchneider Electric
Until recently, enterprise building management of
multiple, distributed facilities has been beyond the
budget of most organizations. New advances in Cloud
technology are now enabling enterprises to centrally
monitor, control and manage their medium and smaller
sized facilities at an affordable cost. The benefits of the
cloud facility management approach have helped to
create more productive environments for workers and
customers and also facilitated better executive
decision-making at the corporate level.
[Case study] Intermountain Rural Electric Association: Improving the quality ...Schneider Electric
Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA) has a 5,000 square-mile service
territory within ten counties to the east, west and south of Denver. With nearly
139,000 members, IREA is one of the fastest growing member-owned electric
distribution cooperatives in the United States.
Electric utilities are preparing for the multitude of challenges facing the industry — limited generation to supply increasing energy demand, growing regulatory and customer pressure for increased reliability and reduced carbon emissions, adoption of distributed renewable generation and energy storage, and the inevitability of both an aging workforce and infrastructure.
In a rather short period of time, these challenges have converged, and in doing so, have exposed the need for a comprehensive distribution network monitoring, analysis, and control system.
Utilities that are proactive — building business cases and deploying scalable solutions now — will be best prepared to meet the challenges of today and the future. To assist the industry in achieving their strategic Smart Grid goals, Schneider Electric proudly offers its Advanced Distribution Management
System (ADMS).
Energy Event Index: Weather risk forecasts for power utilitiesSchneider Electric
Weather is the source of many of your most significant operational challenges. It not only causes outages that upset customers and inflicts damage to your infrastructure; it also impacts important decisions, such as offering mutual assistance to other organizations or requesting it for your own.
Weather-related outages are on the rise, increasing in frequency six fold over the last 20 years.* These outages cost the U.S. economy $20 to $55 billion a year.** When combined with increased staffing costs, leaner budgets, potential fines, and increased customer expectations and media scrutiny, the threat of outages makes managing weather events even more important.
To help you better anticipate these critical events and to understand their specific risks, at Schneider Electric, we offer our proven Energy Event Index forecasts. With them, you can make better-informed decisions that can save you significant expenses with mutual aid calls, and help avoid major public relations and regulatory headaches.
A surprising number of communications companies still document their network in disparate proprietary systems like CAD. This makes it difficult to obtain information needed to make decisions fast and stay competitive. This paper demonstrates how an enterprise Geographic Information System (GIS)–based system is a better approach by enabling a centralized data store; multiple simultaneous editors; flexibility and configurability; standard customization environments; open integration framework; desktop, Web, mobile and cloud deployment options; and rich data interoperability.
When it comes to designing, building, and operating mission-critical data centers, simple is better. Data centers are faster and cheaper to build, and more reliable with lower total cost of ownership (TCO), when they start with a dramatically simplified design and build process that incorporates these elements: reference designs, pre-fabricated/modular architecture, partners that bring comprehensive capabilities into play, and coordinated planning around software, operations, and service. What you will learn: The top 5 weaknesses of today’s design/bid/build approach A simplified approach using reference designs and pre-fab products can preserve Day 1 capital and improve speed to market An integrated solution provider (Design, Build, Hardware and Operations) can optimize CapEx, OpEx and TCO.
Effect on Substation Engineering Costs of IEC61850 & System Configuration ToolsSchneider Electric
Change management, software configuration training, and human error all impact the cost associated with substation automation engineering. Object-oriented engineering approaches as defined in the IEC 61850 standard represent significant cost savings when compared to traditional methods using hardwire and Distributed Network Protocol (DNP3). New multivendor system configuration tools are described that further reduce substation automation engineering costs.
How the Convergence of IT and OT Enables Smart Grid DevelopmentSchneider Electric
The goal for any utility that invests in smart grid technology is to attain higher efficiency and reliable performance.
A smart grid platform implies the convergence of Operations Technology (OT) – the grid physical infrastructure assets and applications–and Information Technology (IT) – the human interface that enables rapid and informed decision making.
This paper describes best practices for migrating to a scalable, adaptable, smart grid network.
Commodity trade is essential for the excellent health of the economy at large. However, Commodity trading is the most complex business with high variables from the Demand and supply side, exerting cost pressures and thinning margins; therefore, it becomes essential to have efficient processes that are flexible to accommodate last-minute changes.
BaffleSol DCMS to manage trade and risk, with its tight integration with ERP, makes it a perfect tool to bring the entire commodity functions to one platform and communicate seamlessly throughout the supply chain, with role-based real-time visibility.
The Cloud Computing model is replacing the traditional IT model for many organizations that have not been able to keep up with the tremendous rate at which technology is changing, the challenges of disparate IT systems inherited through acquisitions and mergers, and decreasing internal resources available for IT commitment.
Cloud Computing models range from public cloud services that bill companies for access to IT infrastructure; the private cloud provider that hosts resources for the sole use of its own organization; dedicated external hosting to non-shared resources; and hybrid hosting, a mixed solution of cloud computing and dedicated hosting.
Schneider Electric consulting experts use their Cloud Assessment Checklist to help potential clients identify the computer services needs that best meet their IT challenges. It is not uncommon to find that an organization would optimize operation with a hybrid hosting solution in which a secure, single-tenant database would be stored with a dedicated host and the front-end would be hosted in the public cloud. Similarly, cloud bursting functionality enables the organization to automatically deploy new applications within the public cloud as needed. Such hybrid hosting models allow scaling capability to accommodate an increase in the number of users in the organization and meet peak traffic demand.
Careful examination of business and security characteristics can determine the proper cloud and hosting model that meets the needs of any particular enterprise and, as a result, help increase the organization’s IT capabilities and productivity while adding value to the business.
[White Paper] Europe’s Window of Opportunity for Terminal OperatorsSchneider Electric
As Europe is going through an unprecedented financial and economic crisis,
the oil and gas industry continues to face an uncertain business environment.
Another recession could lead to reduced demand and further increase the
pressure on margins in downstream operations. This has suppliers and buyers
looking to exploit any operational efficiency they can.
Terminal operators play a critical role in helping suppliers and buyers achieve
those efficiencies, and can benefit their own operations while doing so. To gain
a competitive edge, terminal operators need to be mindful of the big trends
in the industry and make sure that their Terminal Automation System (TAS)
is capable of supporting state-of-the-art supply management systems that
suppliers intend to use in order to maximize their efficiency. And for most TAS,
a simple configuration change is all it takes to achieve this.
[Case study] Benton Public Utility District: Reducing labor costs while impro...Schneider Electric
Project Type:
Operational utility solutions
Applications:
Provide a graphical view of a utility’s infrastructure and tools that support cost reduction through simplified planning, analysis and operational response times.
[Oil & Gas White Paper] Control Room Management - Alarm Management Schneider Electric
Industry best practices call for pipeline operators to define a clear alarm management plan that helps avoid controller overload and ensures alarms are accurate and support safe pipeline operation. Review of controller workload is key in this program, as it can provide the most critical information on how to improve the performance of an alarm system and the controllers monitoring it. Controller performance can be impaired when deluged with too many SCADA alarms, a significant increase in the number of points being monitored and alarms related to communications, which all add to other attention-demanding activities not directly related to alarms.
Developing a program to analyze and continually improve the alarm system includes identification of the operator’s Alarm Philosophy: identifying what constitutes an alarm, who manages it, how it is managed and how training and change of management are carried out. Other best practices of an alarm management program include benchmark and performance audits; rationalisation to determine which SCADA alarms warrant response; and implementation, in an auditable manner, of actions defined.
When implementing an alarm management improvement program, the highest benefit is realised through strategies that involve little advanced technology. These high benefit strategies include alarm storm reviews, tuning alarm settings on nuisance alarms and fixing known issues; adjusting deadbands of repeating alarms; and eliminating alarms with no defined response. Strategies of medium benefit include suppression of alarms from ‘out of service’ stations; replacing absolute alarms with deviation alarms; and filtering, de-bouncing, or suppressing repeater alarms. Other advanced alarm improvement strategies that can provide additional benefit after initial strategies have been implemented include use of dynamic alarm thresholds, operator-set alarms and operational mode suppression. Tracking improvement in the alarm program after modifications are made is important, especially as operations bring in larger point counts.
Schneider Electric actively participates in industry alarm management programs to assure its advanced-technology Control Room Management solution targets best practices and meets new regulations for improved alarm management in the pipeline sector and other control implementations.
While many utilities look forward to the benefits of deploying smart grid technology, they need help on where and how to start. A manageable distribution management system (DMS) pilot implementation is a good kickoff toward the smart grid goal, because it successfully demonstrates the possibilities while it builds support from stakeholders across the enterprise. Schneider Electric helps the utility implement the DMS pilot, using a phased Build — Learn — Plan — Execute approach.
In such a DMS pilot project, the company works with a small team of utility personnel knowledgeable of the organization’s network data stores and analytical functions. They build a fully operational load flow model that represents a subset of the network and reflects circuit data from the GIS database or other sources and includes two HV/MV substations and four to eight feeders, ideally with the switches and enough load profile data to support some switching and basic optimization functionality.
In the Learn phase of the DMS pilot, team members evaluate functionality of the model and completeness and accuracy of the data used. Tuning the model builds team confidence in its understanding of the data needed and the accuracy of the basic DMS algorithms.
In the Plan phase, the utility identifies current business plan and internal and external drivers toward grid automation, considering throughout the political and regulatory environments. A strategy is designed to remove obstacles and achieve identified goals.
In the final Execute phase, the utility will contract for software and services; train core team; develop system configuration and convert data; and finally deploy the system with site acceptance testing and rollout.
This fastrack DMS implementation gets the utility started and moving at the ‘speed of value’ as it builds confidence in DMS technology. It offers a proof-of-concept of DMS benefits across the organization — more reliable service, reduction of peak demand, utility cost savings and more.
Field Data Gathering Services — A Cloud-Based ApproachSchneider Electric
Utilities today wish to facilitate the capture of asset information in the field in a way that is not only scalable but cost effective. They need a system that is simple to use, inexpensive to implement, flexible enough to meet ever-changing needs, yet also powerful enough to cover a majority of their needs with immediacy. This paper describes Schneider Electric's powerful cloud-based solution to optimize the inspection and gathering of field information.
70% of data center outages are directly attributable to human error according to the Uptime Institute’s analysis of their “abnormal incident” reporting (AIR) database1. This figure highlights the critical importance of having an effective operations and maintenance (O&M) program. This paper describes unique management principles and provides a comprehensive, high-level overview of the necessary program elements for operating a mission critical facility efficiently and reliably throughout its life cycle. Practical management tips and advice are also given.
Learning simulators reflect the expertise of software programmers, technical experts and learning professionals in creating real-life workplace scenarios that require decision making on the part of the training employee. Not to be confused with e-learning or laboratory practice, these simulators offer the flexibility to address the aptitudes, tools and motivations specific for the employee’s role. By actively involving trainees and exposing them to the consequences and results of their decisions, learning is improved significantly compared to training that does not involve interactivity. This approach also improves the trainee’s motivation and confidence. Organizations benefit not only from more comprehensive employee knowledge but also heightened on-the-job employee engagement – all with less training cost and time invested.
Business sectors that see particular advantage to learning simulators are public utilities, industrial machinery, transportation, education, social services, and hotel and restaurant services. Beyond learning the processes and procedures involved and the relevant regulations and safety guidelines for the specific sector, the employee gains appropriate customer interaction skills through real-world scenarios requiring decision making and evaluation of the results of those decisions.
Schneider Electric has developed learning simulators that have proven highly successful for Ministry-level programs and for industry federations in Spain; for risk prevention programs in regional governments; and socially and environmentally sustainable practices in construction work. In these projects, Schneider Electric provided comprehensive definition, design, and technical development and production expertise to help clients realize the benefits of effective learning simulation.
This survey was conducted in January 2016 among 400 U.S. facility leaders in establishments including data centers, commercial and industrial buildings, retail, healthcare, education, government and other building environments. Respondents have responsibility related to purchasing energy and technology solutions, and their biggest responsibilities included facility management and operations management. Facility managers are increasingly adapting their building maintenance strategies in response to the Internet of Things (IoT).
Stimulus grants awarded under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) encourage the development of broadband networks that create jobs; spur investments in technology and infrastructure; and deliver long-term economic benefits. These projects are under tight timeframes to put stimulus money to use immediately; and often the pressure of designing, building and reporting progress makes comprehensive network data management a lesser project priority.
However, data accessibility by network operators and subscribing providers is vital to efficient network completion and maintenance and successful business development. Maine Fiber Company, Inc., realized this when it began constructing a 1,100-mile, high capacity fiber optic network to extend middle-mile connectivity across the state of Maine. Using its Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) federal stimulus grant and private investments, it began building this network from scratch, tracking the network with legacy data formats such as internet maps, CAD and paper files to model cable routes. It soon realized the need for network information management technology that would support cost-efficient construction and maintenance of its expansive and dispersed network area.
The company found that centralizing asset and network data as a single geodatabase, using ArcFM™ Fiber Manager, streamlines network data availability across the enterprise. This solution eliminates the time and costs of maintaining multiple databases and provides the segment length and cost accuracy critical to its business model. Flexibility enables the solution to grow with the company, and cross-departmental data sharing supports efficient circuit planning, analysis and reporting. This advanced enterprise GIS technology supports decision making across the organization that not only streamlines the broadband business startup but also makes long-term management efficient and accurate.
Leveraging Cloud-based Building Management Systems for Multi-site FacilitiesSchneider Electric
Until recently, enterprise building management of
multiple, distributed facilities has been beyond the
budget of most organizations. New advances in Cloud
technology are now enabling enterprises to centrally
monitor, control and manage their medium and smaller
sized facilities at an affordable cost. The benefits of the
cloud facility management approach have helped to
create more productive environments for workers and
customers and also facilitated better executive
decision-making at the corporate level.
[Case study] Intermountain Rural Electric Association: Improving the quality ...Schneider Electric
Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA) has a 5,000 square-mile service
territory within ten counties to the east, west and south of Denver. With nearly
139,000 members, IREA is one of the fastest growing member-owned electric
distribution cooperatives in the United States.
Electric utilities are preparing for the multitude of challenges facing the industry — limited generation to supply increasing energy demand, growing regulatory and customer pressure for increased reliability and reduced carbon emissions, adoption of distributed renewable generation and energy storage, and the inevitability of both an aging workforce and infrastructure.
In a rather short period of time, these challenges have converged, and in doing so, have exposed the need for a comprehensive distribution network monitoring, analysis, and control system.
Utilities that are proactive — building business cases and deploying scalable solutions now — will be best prepared to meet the challenges of today and the future. To assist the industry in achieving their strategic Smart Grid goals, Schneider Electric proudly offers its Advanced Distribution Management
System (ADMS).
Energy Event Index: Weather risk forecasts for power utilitiesSchneider Electric
Weather is the source of many of your most significant operational challenges. It not only causes outages that upset customers and inflicts damage to your infrastructure; it also impacts important decisions, such as offering mutual assistance to other organizations or requesting it for your own.
Weather-related outages are on the rise, increasing in frequency six fold over the last 20 years.* These outages cost the U.S. economy $20 to $55 billion a year.** When combined with increased staffing costs, leaner budgets, potential fines, and increased customer expectations and media scrutiny, the threat of outages makes managing weather events even more important.
To help you better anticipate these critical events and to understand their specific risks, at Schneider Electric, we offer our proven Energy Event Index forecasts. With them, you can make better-informed decisions that can save you significant expenses with mutual aid calls, and help avoid major public relations and regulatory headaches.
A surprising number of communications companies still document their network in disparate proprietary systems like CAD. This makes it difficult to obtain information needed to make decisions fast and stay competitive. This paper demonstrates how an enterprise Geographic Information System (GIS)–based system is a better approach by enabling a centralized data store; multiple simultaneous editors; flexibility and configurability; standard customization environments; open integration framework; desktop, Web, mobile and cloud deployment options; and rich data interoperability.
When it comes to designing, building, and operating mission-critical data centers, simple is better. Data centers are faster and cheaper to build, and more reliable with lower total cost of ownership (TCO), when they start with a dramatically simplified design and build process that incorporates these elements: reference designs, pre-fabricated/modular architecture, partners that bring comprehensive capabilities into play, and coordinated planning around software, operations, and service. What you will learn: The top 5 weaknesses of today’s design/bid/build approach A simplified approach using reference designs and pre-fab products can preserve Day 1 capital and improve speed to market An integrated solution provider (Design, Build, Hardware and Operations) can optimize CapEx, OpEx and TCO.
Effect on Substation Engineering Costs of IEC61850 & System Configuration ToolsSchneider Electric
Change management, software configuration training, and human error all impact the cost associated with substation automation engineering. Object-oriented engineering approaches as defined in the IEC 61850 standard represent significant cost savings when compared to traditional methods using hardwire and Distributed Network Protocol (DNP3). New multivendor system configuration tools are described that further reduce substation automation engineering costs.
How the Convergence of IT and OT Enables Smart Grid DevelopmentSchneider Electric
The goal for any utility that invests in smart grid technology is to attain higher efficiency and reliable performance.
A smart grid platform implies the convergence of Operations Technology (OT) – the grid physical infrastructure assets and applications–and Information Technology (IT) – the human interface that enables rapid and informed decision making.
This paper describes best practices for migrating to a scalable, adaptable, smart grid network.
Commodity trade is essential for the excellent health of the economy at large. However, Commodity trading is the most complex business with high variables from the Demand and supply side, exerting cost pressures and thinning margins; therefore, it becomes essential to have efficient processes that are flexible to accommodate last-minute changes.
BaffleSol DCMS to manage trade and risk, with its tight integration with ERP, makes it a perfect tool to bring the entire commodity functions to one platform and communicate seamlessly throughout the supply chain, with role-based real-time visibility.
Brainum and Logic Vision developed a web-based IT solution to effectively manage all processes at a liquid bulk terminal, combining all operational, commercial, logistical and financial processes into one IT solution.
Product folder of the Periotheus Suite - a software suite for energy companies.
Periotheus Suite supports your processes along the entire value chain when trading with electricity, gas and derivatives. Beginning with the planning and acquisition stages, to the operational implementation and monitoring phases, right up to the final assessment and invoicing, with us everything comes from one source.
✔ EPEX autoTRADER
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✔ SCHEDULE & BALANCING GROUP MANAGEMENT
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ImpactECS and SAP for Manufacturing eBook3C Software
For manufacturing companies, the ability to calculate and analyze the cost of the products you build and sell is the key to understanding your company's profitability. Learn how we help companies leverage the information they have in SAP to build accurate and detailed cost and profitability models that expose true profits.
SAP & ImpactECS for Manufacturers - Costing and ProfitabilityMichele Self
For manufacturing companies like yours, the ability to calculate and analyze the cost of the products you build and sell is the key to understanding your company’s profitability. If your company has complicated manufacturing processes, large product catalogs, or multiple production facilities, the ability to calculate costs can be a challenging proposition.
Capital market firms are making decisions on which business lines, asset classes and services to keep and operate and which ones to exit. Regulatory reform and the
clearing mandate are driving the firms to consolidate their traditional exchangetraded derivatives (Futures and Options) and OTC derivatives into a single clearing
business, even while bi-lateral, uncleared derivatives will continue to co-exist with cleared products.
(www.indiamart.com/briightindustrialsolution) We Briight Industrial Solution are a Sole Proprietorship firm engaged in manufacturing premium quality range of Human Interface Machine, Vision Inspection System, SCADA System, PLC System, AC Servo Motor, etc.
In Logistics industry, ProcMATE presents a significant opportunity to save time, reducecosts and increase productivity and accuracy with CognitiveAutomation.
Dynamic Oil Pricing System Enabled Faster Market Reaction TimeITC Infotech
A completely revamped architecture developed by ITC Infotech based on latest tech platform, delivered an integrated and automated system that is intuitive, highly adaptable as well as scalable.
More Electric:
Our world is becoming More Electric. Almost everything we interact with today is either already electric or becoming electric. Think about it. From the time you start your day in the morning to the time you finish your day – your home, your car, your work, your devices, your entertainment – almost everything is electric. Imagine the energy needed to power this. Electricity consumption will increase by 80% in next 25 years
More Connected: Our lives are also becoming more connected. The Internet has already transformed the way we live, work and play. Now the Connected Things is going to take this to a brand new level. 50 billion things connected in the next 5 years.
More Distributed: With such a widespread electrification and connectivity, energy models need rethinking as well. Which is why the generation of power needs to be closer to users. Distributed Energy is rapidly evolving globally. This is positive energy – renewable. In 2014 , Renewables overtook fossil fuels in investment value, with $295bn invested in renewables compared to $289bn invested in fossil fuels. And it is getting cheaper to do this.
More Efficient: When our world is more electric, more connected and more distributed, new opportunities emerge and allows us to tap into even more efficiency – in industrial processes, in the energy value chain, in buildings, in transportation, in the global supply chain and even in the comfort and peace-of-mind of our homes.
With more than $18 billion in M&A activity in the first half of last year alone, the colocation industry is riding the bubble of rapid growth. Colocation data center providers are being evaluated by a wide range of investors, with varying experience and perspectives. Understanding the evaluation criteria is a critical competency for attracting the right type of investor and financial commitment for your colocation business and this is why we have invited today’s speaker to present.
Steve Wallage Steve Wallage is Managing Director of BroadGroup Consulting. Steve brings 25 years of industry experience, holding senior roles at Gartner Group, IDC, CGI and IBM before joining BroadGroup 10 years ago. In his responsibilities at BroadGroup Steve has led many due diligence projects for investors evaluating colocation companies.
In this briefing we explore the Phaseo power supplies and transformers offer presentation and application samples.
For more details:
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We’ve all been hearing about how robust the market for data center space is, but a presentation by an investment banker who has his finger on the pulse on the market day in and day out gave me a new appreciation for how great the opportunity really is.
Herb May is a partner and managing director with DH Capital, an investment bank founded 15 years ago in New York that is focused on the Internet infrastructure space. His company has been involved in close to 100 deals, representing almost $20 billion in value. Most of DH Capital’s work is as a mergers and acquisitions advisor, but raising capital is a growing percentage of its business. The point is, the company understands the financials behind data centers and colocation companies inside and out.
At Schneider Electric, in the IT Division, our core business has always been focused on delivering the highest level of availability to critical technologies, systems and processes. We’ve done this through our award winning, industry-leading and highest quality products and solutions, including UPS, Cooling, Rack Systems, DCIM and Services.
In this new digital era, we see a world that is always-on.
Always on to meet the needs of the highest notion of “access” to goods and services
Always on to be the solid, reliable foundation of digital transformation for businesses
Our mission is: To empower the digital transformation of our customers by ensuring their critical network, systems and processes are highly available and resilient.
In this briefing we explore the Magelis Basic HMI offer presentation and application samples.
For more details:
https://www.schneider-electric.com/en/product-range/61054-magelis#search
In this briefing, we explore the Zelio time relay offer presentation and application samples.
For more details:
http://www.schneider-electric.com/en/product-range/529-zelio-time?parent-category-id=2800&parent-subcategory-id=2810&filter=business-1-industrial-automation-and-control
Spacial, Thalassa, ClimaSys Universal enclosures BriefingSchneider Electric
Discover more about Universal Enclosures and how to select the one you need.
For more information:
http://www.schneider-electric.com/en/product-category/5800-enclosures-and-accessories/?filter=business-1-industrial-automation-and-control
Learn more about "what is a solid state relay", key features and targeted applications.
For more details:
http://www.schneider-electric.com/en/product-range/60278-zelio-relays?parent-category-id=2800&filter=business-1-Industrial%20Automation%20and%20Control
Learn more about what an HMI does and the main components and a look at a typical HMI.
Further details:
http://www.schneider-electric.com/en/product-category/2100-HMI%20(Terminals%20and%20Industrial%20PC)?filter=business-1-Industrial%20Automation%20and%20Control
Where will the next 80% improvement in data center performance come from?Schneider Electric
Rick Puskar, Head of Marketing for Schneider Electric's IT Division presents at the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona November 8th, 2017. In this presentation Rick discusses where the next 80% improvement in data center performance will come from with a focus on the speed, availability and reliability of data. Learn how a cloud-based data center infrastructure management as a service architecture like Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure IT can drive such aggressive goals around data center performance.
Learn how EcoStruxure is digitizing industry with IIoT to increase end-to-end operational efficiency with more dynamic control for better business results.
Learn more about our System Integrator Alliance Program - A global partnership transforming industry and infrastructure by helping them make the most of their processes, the most of their assets and the most of their energy.
EcoStruxure, IIoT-enabled architecture, delivering value in key segments.Schneider Electric
As presented during the Alliance 2017 event, learn how to deliver integrated solutions based on EcoStruxure, our IIoT-enabled architecture for Wastewater, Food and Beverage and Mining, Minerals and Metals.
A Practical Guide to Ensuring Business Continuity and High Performance in Hea...Schneider Electric
Within healthcare facilities, high availability of systems is a key influencer of revenue and patient safety and satisfaction. Three important critical success factors need to be addressed in order to achieve safety and availability goals. These include exceeding the facility’s level of regulatory compliance, a linking of business benefits to the maintenance of a safe and an “always on” power and ventilation environment, and a sensible approach to technology upgrades that includes new strategies for “selling” technological improvements to executives. This reference guide offers recommendations for identifying and addressing each of these issues.
Connected Services Study – Facility Managers Respond to IoTSchneider Electric
According to a new 2017 study commissioned by Schneider Electric, facility managers are increasingly looking to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) by implementing new digital technologies like intelligent analytics to improve maintenance decisions and operations. Explore the full results on how facility managers are reacting to IoT when it comes to facility maintenance.
Learn more about cabling and accessories and the complete ranges available featuring 3 types of cable to suit the envirionment. For more details: http://www.schneider-electric.com/en/product-subcategory/88035-cordset-and-connectors/?filter=business-1-industrial-automation-and-control&parent-category-id=4900
This briefing will look at the general purpose of Photoelectric sensors and Photoelectric fork and frame sensors. For more details: http://www.tesensors.com/global/en/product/photoelectric/xu/?filter=business-1-automation-and-control&parent-category-id=4900/
A world-class global brand offering a comprehensive line of Limit Switches complying with international standards: IEC, UL, CSA, CCC, GOST. For more details: http://www.tesensors.com/global/en/product/limit-switches/xc-standard/?cat_id=BU_AUT_520_L4&conf=sensors&el_typ=node&nod_id=0000000002&prev_nod_id=0000000001&scp_id=Z000
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
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The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
1. CTRM For Fuel Marketers
& Retailers
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Your Operation
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CTRM FOR FUEL MARKETERS & RETAILERS
The Challenge
Many Fuel Marketers are challenged with managing multiple spreadsheets with physical
trades in one sheet, operational data in another, and paper hedges in yet another. This
juggling act of managing truck loads, terminal locations, pipeline movement and trading
activity creates a lack of transparency and inability to accurately consolidate various data
points which results in costly mistakes.
This common practice
creates serious
operational risks.
Marketers are unable to
see net positions, profits
and losses, inventory
changes, and ultimately
exposure. Marketers know
spreadsheets are not the
answer – but the costs
and risks associated with
implementing traditional
trading and risk software
systems have been
prohibitive from Fuel
Marketers until now.
The Solution: AspectCTRM For Fuel Marketers
AspectCTRM is the only Web-based trade, risk and operations management solution.
Fuel Marketers can now benefit from this leading professional system with an efficient
and cost-effective way to manage streams of trading and transport activity. Traders, risk
managers, schedulers, procurement and back-office personnel rely on this comprehensive,
affordable solution.
Key Benefits
• Run straight-through-processing (STP) from truckload delivery to month-end reconciliation
for operational efficiency and accurate finances.
• Easily manage dozens of supply locations, hundreds of trucks, and pipelines with one view.
• Gain access to real-time profit and loss performance metrics, plus full transparency of costs
and risks to eliminate threats and better manage trading performance.
• Produce fast action intraday & closing reports: No other system produces reports in seconds.
• Retain optimum margins with margin management functionality for buy/sell activities less
transportation costs.
• Gain full support for net-back-pricing and margin management.
• Confidently manage and leverage inventories against changing portfolios and volumes
in-storage and in-transit.
• Synchronize plans with accurate inventory data to determine the best financial option for
product sales and distribution.
Products Supported:
• Crude Oil
• Petroleum Products
• Marine Fuels
• Biofuels
For Any Size Company:
• Fuel Marketers,
Hypermarketers, Jobbers
• Integrated Majors
• Refining & Marketing
• Bunker Companies
• Bulk End Users
• Brokers
AspectCTRM offers a continuous
spectrum of increasing
functionality that expands as
your business needs grow.
Choose from our Lite, Standard
and Enterprise Editions, and add
modules as challenges arise or
existing systems need
replacement.
It is flexible and scales to the
functional and budget needs
of its users. It begins with the
out-of-the-box Lite Edition with
front-office features deployable
in hours for small companies.
The Standard Edition offers
expanded front, middle, and
back-office functionality; and the
Enterprise Edition can be fully
customized through professional
services development. All
editions integrate with market
data and retail systems, and
back-end programs like SAP and
Oracle. The Trade, Risk, Financial &
Physical Operations Modules can
be deployed individually and as
an integrated group to meet the
specific needs of your firm.
Ask for our full features
list for each Edition.
Enterprise Solutions
www.aspectenterprise.com
moreinfo@aspectenterprise.com http://tvt.schneider-electric.com/go/AES
2. AspectCTRM Key Functionality For Fuel Marketers
• Deal Capture
• Trading P&L
• Portfolio Management
• Risk Analysis & Reporting
• Hedging
• Wholesale Scheduling
• Pipeline Scheduling
• Inventory Management
• Price & Credit Risk
• Broker Statement Reconciliation
• Invoicing
• Cash Allocation
The Only CTRM System Built For Today’s Busy Marketers.
Monitor & Execute Activities On Any Smartphone,Tablet or Desktop.
AspectCTRM provides a quick and
accurate view into your daily operations.
Smartphone and tablet users see the
same data as traditional desktop users.
This details view shows all trades, costs,
inventories and movements along with
profits, losses and mark-to-market.
Forward prices are required for pricing cargos and
shipments, inventory and mark-to-market valuation.
AspectCTRM is on the same platform as AspectDSC for
automated price uploads. Support is also provided for
manual entry, Excel uploads and interfaces with
third-party price providers. This view on a smartphone
can show your futures prices, basis, forward curves or
any pricing criteria.
Tracking in-transit inventory
activity and valuation is a
key responsibility for fuel
marketers moving product.
This in-transit shipments
view is a quick online report
that gives schedules and
inventory updates on
deliveries in progress.
Aspect supports user-designed
invoice templates created in
Microsoft Word. Invoices can be
easily customized, edited,
printed and emailed.
MTM
Futures & Curves
Shipments
Invoicing
3. AspectCTRM can be as simple or sophisticated as your fuel marketing business requires with integration to your Retail/Transport
Systems or automated data uploads via Excel exports from your Retail/Transport Systems.
Data Can Flow In Either Direction.
The key is there is one entry point, which ensures your data is accurate and mistakes are not created through double-entry.
AspectCTRM’s Cloud
technology allows
users to execute activities
on smartphones, tablets
and computers.
There’s no software or
hardware to manage or
purchase. Log in securely
and conveniently with an
Internet connection.
Monitor
movements and
inventory
to understand
exposure.
Configure
workflows
to fit your
specific supply
movements.
Built-in
connectivity
with T4
for pipeline
activity.
Fuel Marketers Access One View Of Your Supply Chain
Easily Configured, Centralized Reporting
AspectCTRM’s reports are easily configured and come packaged within the solution. Bring your business into full view, and share
reports across your trading and logistics teams for a cohesive view of the business. Reports do not require development or additional
costs, and can be configured by users or by an Aspect Specialist.
Trade Finance Report
Aspect supports multi-dimensional OLAP reporting within the
application. OLAP allows users to create reports that slice and
dice large amounts of data quickly and from just about any
perspective. This Trade Finance Report is an example that shows
financing and current trade status in AspectCTRM.
Powerful Built-In Dashboard Tools
Aspect CTRM provides customers with powerful built-in
dashboard tools to create real-time Business Intelligence(BI)
content. Dashboards, available from desktop or mobile devices ,
transform data into information for decision support. This view
contains information related to cargo trades captured in Aspect
CTRM. The individual panels show profit and loss data by
Product, Strategy, Trader, Book and Vessel/Truck. The Inventory
chart shows current inventory levels by product. Any data
elements, measures, or values captured in AspectCTRM,
as well as calculated values can be easily displayed in reports
and dashboards. This powerful functionality transforms the
transactional data stored in Aspect into information you can
use to manage and grow your business.
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Cloud access means you have full access to
the full range of functionality from your Web
browser. There are no long, costly installations
or costly servers and databases to buy and
maintain. Rapid deployment is provided by
Aspect out of the box in just a few weeks or
months, depending on the complexity of your
solution and required integrations with other
systems. AspectCTRM scales from single users
to thousands at multiple locations across the
world, all backed up with professional
regional support, maintenance, and disaster
recovery all built into your solution. Upgrades
are provided seamlessly in the background to
all users, with no software required. No longer
is a professional solution out of the reach of
smaller companies. Your capital can now be
invested into the business, and not tied up in
expensive, risky projects with traditional
software vendors.
About Aspect
www.AspectEnterprise.com
Aspect Enterprise Solutions is the leading global
provider of Cloud commodity trading, risk management
and data management applications. We offer the only
platform with Market Data, Trade, Risk and Operations
accessible via one password in the Cloud. Cloud
deployment allows for rapid deployment, controlled
costs and immediate ROI. Aspect clients produce, refine,
market, ship and trade globally and rely on our expertise
in these key physical and financial markets: Oil, Metals,
Steel, Coal, Marine Fuels, Biofuels, Freight, Natural Gas,
Emissions and Agriculture/Softs.
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Enterprise Solutions
INTELLIGENT TRADE IN THE CLOUD
About Schneider Electric
http://tvt.schneider-electric.com/go/AES
As a global specialist in energy management with
operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider
Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple
market segments, including leadership positions in
Utilities & Infrastructures, Industries & Machine
Manufacturers, Non-residential Buildings, Data Centres
& Networks and in Residential. Focused on making
energy safe, reliable, efficient, productive and green,
the Group’s 130,000 plus employees achieved sales of
22.4 billion euros in 2011, through an active
commitment to help individuals and organizations
make the most of their energy.
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Commodity Business
Awards 2012 2013
TECHNOLOGY HOUSE OF THE YEAR ETRM HOUSE OF THE YEAR EXCELLENCE IN CTRM SOFTWARE