William Wickersheim – Burbank Water and Power

Scot Twining – SSP Innovations

MAXIMIZING CONDUIT

MANAGEMENT FOR

ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION

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

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)

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

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

Custom Feeder Trace Tool

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.

Custom Feeder Trace Tool

Select Conduit

Select Feeder

Custom Feeder Trace Tool

Observe Results

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.

Graphical Conduit Trace Report Tool

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.’

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’.

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.

Graphical Conduit Trace Report Tool

The ArcFM Conduit

Manager Trace Report

HTML file is used to create

the SSP Innovations

Graphical Conduit Trace

Report.

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.

Graphical Conduit Trace Report Tool

The Graphical Conduit Trace Report

tool’s user interface allows the user to

select the output.

Graphical Conduit Trace Report Tool

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.

Q & A

William Wickersheim – Burbank Water and Power

Scot Twining – SSP Innovations