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application Sheet INTERGRAPH® VEGETATION MANAGEMENT Vegetation management and tree trimming is increasingly Management and Inspection application improves the efficiency important in the electric transmission and distribution industries. and management of all vegetation workflows. Our application Vegetation management is the process of trimming, cleaning, can help you save significant time and money with an integrated and/or spraying trees, shrubbery, and other types of geospatial system that automates field operations, reducing vegetation under and around facilities to prevent service interference manual labor required for paperwork and data entry. and damage to your network. New standards from the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) require utilities to eliminate all power outages caused by vegetation interference with power lines. Failing to meet these requirements can cost utilities up to $1 million per occurrence per day. According to Energy Dimensions, this has forced utilities to increase their expenditures on measuring, monitoring, and dealing with vegetation threats. Improper vegetation clearance on transmission lines was a Our field automation software gives you the ability to “location enable” assessment, inventory, production, and inspection workflows, improving productivity by as much as 50 percent. Intergraph’s solutions are open and based on industry standards, making it easy to incorporate geospatial data with other corporate information systems. ONE MOBILE APPLICATION IN THE FIELD The NERC mandates are forcing utilities of all sizes to increase factor in the August 2003 blackout, where 50 million people their expenditures on monitoring vegetation risks to their power across the Northeast U.S. and Southeast Canada lost power. lines and other infrastructure. While utilities generally have some In addition, fires in California in 2007 were blamed on power form of procedures in place to address vegetation lines making contact with electrical equipment or vegetation. management, they are often paper-based and require many According to the NERC’s Standard FAC-003-1, the purpose manual procedures to capture enough information to help of the Transmission Vegetation Management Program is “to in the decision-making process. Utilities also approach improve the reliability of electric transmission systems by vegetation management from different angles. Some use the preventing outages from vegetation located on transmission traditional wokflow of assessment inspection, work, and rights-of-way (ROW) and minimizing outages from vegetation post-trim inspection. Other utilities trim different circuits every located adjacent to ROW, maintaining clearances between few years, while some perform vegetation surveys with transmission lines and vegetation on and along transmission treatment recommendations. ROW, and reporting vegetation-related outages of the transmission systems to the respective Regional Reliability Organizations (RRO) and the NERC.” Intergraph’s Vegetation Management helps utilities make the transition from paper to a mobile-based process. You can automate workflows for assessment inspections, production Intergraph®’s Vegetation Management and Inspection application work, post-trim inspections, surveys, and work planning. This can support your utility’s workflows for managing vegetation – also increases data quality for better analysis and reporting from facility inspections to capturing work done in the field. capabilities. You can configure the application for STREAMLINE VEGETATION WORKFLOWS As part of Intergraph’s Field Automation solution, our Vegetation multi-purpose inspections, including facility conditions, maintenance, and map corrections. Leveraging your existing data, Intergraph’s Vegetation Vegetation management is now one of the largest maintenance Management takes your enterprise geographic information functions of electric utilities, costing billions annually. Intergraph’s system (GIS) into the field within a single-user environment. You Vegetation Management and Inspection application is a powerful can mobilize information to make it readily available across the tool that can help your utility improve productivity, efficiency, enterprise, making it simple to update reports from the field reliability, and customer service. Our skilled professionals offer instead of filling in paper documents at the office. Our application deep application and industry knowledge based on hundreds of is data-model and industry independent. With configurable utility and communications customers worldwide, and can design field workflows, you can easily implement it to meet your and deliver a complete solution to meet your unique needs. specific requirements. KEY BENEFITS •Satisfy regulatory mandates •Transition from paper to mobile •Mobilize and automate workflows o Assessment inspections o Production work o Post-trim inspections o Surveys o Work planning •Capture data at point of conception •Improve productivity/efficiency •Increase quality of data •Support analysis and decision-making SUMMARY For the utilities and communications industry, Intergraph provides comprehensive infrastructure management, advanced distribution management, outage management, mobile workforce, and field force management solutions to ensure the efficient operation of distribution and transmission networks. Our geospatially powered business applications help utilities and communications companies to geospatially design, manage, operate, and secure their distribution and transmission network infrastructure and data. One of the tools we offer is our Vegetation Management application. ABOUT INTERGRAPH Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph’s industryspecific software to organize vast amounts of data to make processes and infrastructure better, safer and smarter. The company’s software and services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of people around the world. Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially powered solutions to the public safety and security, defense and intelligence, government, transportation, photogrammetry, and utilities and communications industries. Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS) is an independent subsidiary for SG&I’s U.S. federal and classified business. Intergraph is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexagon AB, (Nordic exchange: HEXA B) and (Swiss exchange: HEXN). For more information, visit www. intergraph.com and www.hexagon.se. Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I). Intergraph PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the design, construction, operation and data management of plants, ships and offshore facilities. ©2011 Intergraph Corp. All rights reserved. Intergraph and the Intergraph logo are registered trademarks of Intergraph Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. 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