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SpatialNews Press Release
EMEC Selects GE Smallworld PowerOn™ 2.0 for Distribution
Management System
New Technology Improves Customer Service and Reduces Operating Costs
DENVER, CO, February 12, 2001 - GE Smallworld, a leading provider of utility network
solutions, today announced that Empresa Eléctrica EMEC S.A. (EMEC), a leading electricity
provider in northern Chile, has selected PowerOn™ 2.0 software for its enterprise distribution
management system. The PowerOn™ Version 2.0 extends the reach of the PowerOn™ system
beyond outage and network management, and will enable EMEC to plan switching operations
and perform advanced outage prediction.
“PowerOn 2.0™ software will help us provide excellent customer service levels, improving
dramatically our current status," said Francisco Muñoz Garcia, IT manager at EMEC. "We've
already installed GE Smallworld Core Spatial Technology, and PowerOn™'s automated tools will
help reduce outage time and increase the quality of information we provide to our customers and
the regulatory agency.”
Chosen by twenty-two utilities worldwide, the PowerOn™ system builds on the many features
inherent in the previous PowerOn™ software release. New network management capabilities
include additional and enhanced options for originating, tracking, navigating, and issuing outage
and switching requests. The system also offers increased functionality, interface, and integration
capabilities relating to outage management functions, and over-all performance improvements.
“The PowerOn™ 2.0 system provides a complete operations and outage management package
that can be rapidly implemented at utilities,” stated Jay Cadman, marketing director for Utilities
and Public Systems at GE Smallworld. “We’ve Internet-enabled PowerOn™ 2.0 so that it can
offer a full set of network management functions across an enterprise, not limited to just the
operations center.”
EMEC serves 190,000 customers in two of northern Chile’s region-states. The PowerOn™ 2.0
system is replacing their current paper-based outage management system. The utility is also
installing GE Smallworld Spatial Intelligence and GE Smallworld Design Manager software, taking
advantage of powerful thematic analysis and state-of-the-art design and construction technology.
Integration and implementation of the new PowerOn™ system will be completed in approximately
six months.
PowerOn is a trademark of GE Smallworld
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