Maximizing Conduit Manager For Electric Distribution Describes how we customized Schneider Electric's Conduit Manager extension to ArcFM to allow for much more enhanced conduit functionality.

1. William Wickersheim – Burbank Water and Power
Scot Twining – SSP Innovations
MAXIMIZING CONDUIT MANAGEMENT FOR ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION

2. Burbank Water and Power
•BWP was created in 1913
•Burbank is home to major entertainment studios: Disney, NBC, Warner Brothers studios
•17 square mile service area
•52,000 electric customers 45,000 R, 7,000 C & I
•26,000 water meters
•20 electric switching and substations
•30+ 12 kV feeders
•80+ 4.16 kV feeders (multi-year upgrade to 12 kV)
•Typical peak electric demand: Summer = 280 Mw , Winter = 180 Mw, All-time = 320 Mw
•Very good reliability (2012 data): SAIFI = 0.16 outages per customer SAIDI = 16 minutes per customer per year

3. SSP Innovations
Nine year old GIS and WMS consulting company based in Denver, CO area
•Work exclusively in the United States utility industry
•Includes Electric, Gas, Water, Wastewater/Sewer, Fiber
Strong partnerships with ESRI and Schneider Electric
•Certified to implement/integrate/customize entire ESRI & SE GIS suite
•Also do GDB consulting & WMS consulting/implementations
Began working with BWP in July 2012: GIS Customizations Project
•Have since partnered on several projects (Integrations, SSP Nightly Batch Suite, GDB modeling, ArcGIS/ArcFM Server, custom support, OMS work, ArcFM Conduit Manager, WMS consulting, and more customizations)

4. Burbank Water and Power Underground Electrical Business Needs
1 source of record for all UG drawings
Information updated when as-built drawings are entered into GIS
Information sent to the field on a daily basis

5. Burbank Water and Power GIS System
ArcGIS 10.0.2
ArcFM 10.0.2 with ArcFM Conduit Manager
Oracle 11G
Custom tools by SSP Innovations, including:
Custom Feeder Trace Tool
Graphical Conduit Trace Report Tool

6. Custom Feeder Trace Tool

7. Custom Feeder Trace Tool
Start the Custom Feeder Trace Tool.
Select a conduit from the map.
Select the feeder you wish to trace from the dialog box showing a list of feeders in the selected conduit.
Observe the results where conduit lines and duct circles are traced.

8. Custom Feeder Trace Tool
Select Conduit
Select Feeder

9. Custom Feeder Trace Tool
Observe Results

10. CUSTOM FEEDER TRACE TOOL BENEFITS
Extends ArcFM Conduit Manager functionality.
Provides a tool for quickly querying what feeders run through a selected conduit.
Allows for a single feeder to be traced without falsely mapping conductor lines parallel to the conduit line.
Trace result graphics can be sorted in the TOC, preventing them from obscuring other features.

11. Graphical Conduit Trace Report Tool

12. Graphical Conduit Trace Report Tool
Set the ArcFM Conduit Manager Trace Options.
Select the ‘Conduit Manager Find Path Trace’ tool. Click on the conduit at the end points of the trace.
Click the button labeled ‘Generate a Graphical Conduit Trace Report.’

13. Graphical Conduit Trace Report Tool
Set ArcFM Conduit Manager Trace Options
Select ‘Options’ from the Conduit Manager toolbar.
Go to the ‘Conduit Traces’ Tab of the Options dialog.
Select the check-box labeled: ‘Generate a Conduit Trace Report upon Completion of a Trace’.

14. Graphical Conduit Trace Report Tool
Select the ArcFM ‘Conduit Manager Find Path Trace’ tool.
Click at where you want the end points of the trace to be located.
The ArcFM Conduit Manager Find Path Trace Report is generated as a formatted HTML file.

15. Graphical Conduit Trace Report Tool
The ArcFM Conduit Manager Trace Report HTML file is used to create the SSP Innovations Graphical Conduit Trace Report.

16. Graphical Conduit Trace Report Tool
Click the button labeled ‘Generate a Graphical Conduit Trace Report.’
The command loads the ArcMap Page Template and uses the Conduit Manager Find Path Trace results to generate the map.

17. Graphical Conduit Trace Report Tool
The Graphical Conduit Trace Report tool’s user interface allows the user to select the output.

18. Graphical Conduit Trace Report Tool

19. GRAPHICAL CONDUIT TRACE TOOL BENEFITS
The user can use standard ArcMap tools to design their own page template.
This tool can be used with the Custom Feeder Trace tool to provide an ordered feeder report.
Handles multiple pages.
Handles multiple output types.

20. Q & A
William Wickersheim – Burbank Water and Power
Scot Twining – SSP Innovations