Smallworld Gas Distribution Office

TM
fact sheet
The major applications include:
• Gas Outage Analysis • Customer Usage Reporter
(Valve Isolation) • Survey Point Manager
• Cathodic Protection Manager • One Call Analysis
• Leak Analysis • Dimensioning Tool
• Compliance Manager • Network & Hydraulic Analysis
• Public Awareness Interface
• Environmental Contaminant • Designing and Planning
Tracking Option (Design Manager)
Today’s gas distribution companies are demanding smarter and • Call Before You Dig Exporter • Enterprise IT Integration
more complete geospatial products that deliver business process
• Route Management
solutions to efficiently manage their networks, reduce costs,
improve customer service, and fulfill increasing compliance and
Gas Distribution Office Benefits
regulatory requirements. GE Energy’s Smallworld Gas Distribution
The Smallworld Gas Distribution Office solution allows the gas dis-
Office solution provides gas distribution companies with a global
tribution companies to store asset data in one database and share
data model and a suite of integrated applications that are
and access that data from multiple locations. This provides huge
fundamental to geospatial management of a full natural gas
business benefits by:
delivery network. GE Energy’s Smallworld solutions provide a one
• Providing access to various data located throughout
source approach to further leverage your geospatial investment
the organization
by reducing costly integrations, lowering maintenance costs, and
minimizing multiple contact points with vendors. • Storing individuals’ knowledge in one database
• Controlling and managing historical and current asset
Features information
The Smallworld Gas Distribution Office solution provides a suite
• Making critical data available on site or in the field
of operational, engineering, and asset management applications
• Optimizing decisions
to enhance and improve gas distribution facility management.
This geospatially-based product suite provides the framework for • Simplifying data comparison for asset management
regulatory compliance, safety programs, facility accounting • Easily interpreting volumes of data geospatially
reporting, and decision support. The solution also provides a • Performing network design with quality data
standardized gas distribution data model with a robust collection
• Meeting regulatory, compliance, and integrity management
of gas-related objects for gas mains, service lines, control devices,
needs with specific applications
and meters, as well as powerful network modeling functionality.
• Properly analyzing data and easily sharing results
• Increasing process efficiency and reducing reporting time

A Complete Solution
GE understands the needs of gas utilities and offers optional
add-on products to the Smallworld Gas Distribution Office solution,
including mobile, workforce management and web services .
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Overall Smallworld Gas Distribution Office
Benefits
• Reduces time to “go live” by shortening the database design
phase by as much as 80%
• Expedites return on investment with built-in applications that
are immediately useable
• Reduces total cost of ownership with standard application
code and data models that allow for minimized administration
• Satisfies regulators with applications and standard methods
for compliance management and safety programs
• Ensures better informed decision making
• Meets current needs as well as future requirements with
enhancements focused on customer feedback
• Delivers a fully scalable solution with long term support
Processes
Cathodic Protection Management, Engineering & Design,
• Provides a standard, smooth migration path to the future
Replacement Planning, Leak Management

Distribution Integrity Management Key Features

Smallworld Gas Distribution Office Product by itself provides
• Current overview of all cathodic networks and CP
a suite of operational, engineering, and asset management
related assets
applications to enhance and improve gas distribution facility
• Manages lifecycle of cathodic networks
management. This geospatially-based product suite also provides
the framework for regulatory compliance, safety programs, plant • Bond management providing the as-operated view
accounting reports, and decision support. of cathodic network
• Calculation of down sections
Smallworld Gas Distribution Office Distribution Integrity
• Analysis and reporting of CP Test Station read data
Management Product provides gas distribution companies with a
• Calculates and manages 10% isolated steel service
powerful office, field and business intelligence solution to meet the
line inspections
needs of today's operational and regulatory requirements within
the gas distribution industry. Distribution Integrity Management
Benefits
Product is here and the robust combination of these applications
• All CP related data and network data in a single application,
in Smallworld Gas Distribution Office Distribution Integrity
no data redundancy, all reports from a single point
Management Product provide the foundation and framework that
• Cost avoidance of annual CP related map updates
gas distribution companies require to meet the challenges ahead.
• An as-operated view is available to all users
Smallworld Gas Distribution Office Distribution Integrity
• Reduced time to identify and calculate down section footage
Management Product provides a comprehensive distribution
• Reduce CP reading analysis cost
integrity decision-support solution architected to fit into a typical
LDC IT environment, align with LDC business processes and • Reduces the time required to manage the random
support all components of federal Distribution Integrity identification of isolated steel service lines
management regulations.

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