Going from Homegrown Delphi/Pascal toEsri®, ArcFM™, SAP & ADMS

Esri GeoConX 2018

• Over 16+ years of experience in Defense Mapping, Private Sector, and Utilities

• Expertise in Esri and ArcFM technologies and experiences with multiple software and database solutions commonly used by electric, gas, and telecom utilities

• As Program Manager, directed and implemented software solutions for electric, gas, fiber, and telecommunications utilities

Presenter Introductions

Frank Roberts, Account Manager - UDC

• Been at Cleco for 20 years, 18 years in GIS

• Lead developer in the original GIS, OMS, and AVL, all home grown

• Current GIS and ADMS admin

• Lead point person for anything GIS or ADMS related to the conversion to SAP and Esri on the Cleco side.

Presenter Introductions

Paul Constance, Integration & Development - CLECO

• Been at Cleco for 20 years, 18 years in GIS

• Lead developer in the original GIS, OMS, and AVL, all home grown

• Current GIS and ADMS admin

• Lead point person for anything GIS or ADMS related to the conversion to SAP and Esri on the Cleco side.

Presenter Introductions

Paul Constance, Integration & Development - CLECO

CLECO Overview

• Operating since 1935 and headquartered in Pineville, Louisiana

• CLECO owns nine generating units with a total nameplate capacity of 3,310 megawatts

• 11,935 miles of distribution lines and 1,317 miles of transmission lines

• Serves approximately 288,000 customers in Louisiana through its retail business and supplies wholesale power in Louisiana and Mississippi

UDC Overview

• Founded in 2005

• Privately Owned

• 324 Employees

• Systems Integrator –Spatial Visual Focus

• Implementation Focus

• Extensive Gas & Electric Systems Experience

Project Background

• Integrate design and estimating systems with SAP’s work management system to produce a comprehensive central design and work management solution

• Replace homegrown GIS system

• Maintain Integration to Schneider Electric ADMS

Project Background

• The initial requirement for UDC was to support the SAP interface by making the necessary changes in ArcGIS Enterprise to meet Cleco’s business needs.

• Initial meetings revealed some challenges

The Challenge

• Cleco had not decided on a Design tool that would need to be integrated to SAP Work Management

• Aggressive schedule

• Multiple projects and project teams• UDC

• IBM

• Vesta

• Schneider Electric

Design Tool Decision

• ADMS deployments need accurate electric networks and business processes in place to maintain them with ‘zero-latency’.

• Cleco already has Schneider Electric’s ADMS implemented

• ArcFM Designer provides a smooth integration to ADMS, meeting the ‘zero-latency’ requirement

Scheduling

• Multiple projects and project teams working at the same time

• All projects ready for testing by Aug 2018

• Be ready for testing, but keep working towards completion. A “Phased” approach…

• Continue testing and adjusting

The Solution

• ArcFM Designer

• Integrations and Tools

• Customizations• AutoUpdaters

• GDBM Action Handlers

• Experienced Team

ArcFM Designer Benefits

• Provides Schneider Electric ADMS with zero latency data

• Estimate job costs through integration to SAP Work Management

• Streamlines design, construction, and workflow process

• Design in GIS and export directly into ADMS

• Single point of entry for all asset information

Autoupdaters• Calculate ELN

• Fuse Bank Size

• Cabinet Association

• CU Defining Attributes

• Phase: Size Label Text

• Operating Voltage

• Phase Designation

• Total KVAR

• Town

• Cap Bank Relationship

• Fuse Bank Relationship

• Recloser Bank Relationship

• Switch Bank Relationship

• Transformer Bank Relationship

• VBK Structure Relationship

Integrations and Tools

• The GIS will need to both send and receive data from SAP during many different points in the daily processes

• Stand Alone Tools- GIS Data Extraction for SAP

- GIS Data Import from SAP

• GDBM: SAP Action Handlers

• ArcMap and ArcFM application is the main tool used by mappers/designers

Experienced Team

• Kris Foster

• Senior Software Engineer/Consultant

• 16yrs in GIS including 3 years at Schneider Electric

Experienced Team

• Jeff Buturff

• DBA, Performance Engineer, Lead Developer

• 25 years in Utility GIS including 6 years with Esri

Next Steps – ArcMap/ArcFM 10.6.1

Take full advantage of all enhancements being added to ArcGIS Enterprise

• Complete Web GIS

• Portal collaboration

• Improved big data analysis

• Improved real-time event processing

• Increased agility and integration capabilities

• Performance

• Support through January 2024

Next Steps – ArcFM Editor XI and Designer

• Improve GIS/EAM and GIS/WMS integration

• Shorten as-built duration and backlogs

• Support ADMS Zero-Data Latency for SCADA controls without humans in the loop

• Reduce the impact of moving to Esri’s Utility Network Model

• Freedom to decide when you want to move to Esri’s Utility Network Model

Thank you!Questions?