October 2013
ABB's Power Update: Special service edition

Prioritizing and optimizing asset management

Asset-intensive industries depend on efficient and effective maintenance, repair, overhaul and eventual replacement of all assets to ensure strong returns on capital. Typically, customers have relied on business processes dominated by scheduled inspection and paper documentation. Now, with widespread communications, low processing costs and continued deployment of intelligent equipment, businesses can collect and analyze far more data from the field than ever before. When coupled with the right software tools and some targeted integration, this operational data can be utilized to enhance asset management business processes, increase productivity, reduce translation errors, unify and automate business processes, and prioritize action. >> Download white paper


T&D Service
Big tech changes ride along in the field

A lot is expected of your field worker these days: to work efficiently, to work effectively, to fix equipment when it goes down, to unravel the mystery when the power goes out. Your field worker is also on the front lines of customer service as well- the only "real, live" utility worker a customer sees these days. Have you fully equipped them to answer all of your customer's questions? To really connect with the customer, your field worker needs an arsenal of mobile devices that allows him access to real-time information. >> Read more

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High Voltage Service
Reduce operating and maintenance costs, while maintaining reliability

Over the past several years, utilities have been faced with the challenge of reducing O&M costs, while maintaining or improving reliability. While a daunting task, many utilities have achieved this goal through creative means or partnerships. Discover three strategies utilities use to accomplish this task. >> Read more

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Service
Maximize asset life through targeted maintenance 

Increasingly complex processes and equipment require a more sophisticated approach than break/fix or even scheduled maintenance. Maximizing asset health through targeted maintenance enables you to develop end-to-end, asset management business processes that will lower costs, minimize risk and improve reliability. >> Read more

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Medium Voltage Service
What maintenance strategy is right for you?

Four general types of maintenance philosophies can be identified: corrective, preventive, risk-based and condition-based. In practice, all these strategies are used in maintaining power distribution equipment. This blog addresses the challenge of optimizing the balance between each for maximum plant reliability. >> Read more

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White papers
Improving operations & maintenance with remote optimization

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Videos
Hows and whys of a switchgear assessment
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Educational opportunities
What's next in smart grid live webinar series
- Distribution optimization
  October, 10

- Improving daily operations using grid analytics
  November, 5

Ventyx PROMOD IV basic training
Atlanta, GA
October 15 - 18
 Distribution & transmission protection & control training
Coral Springs, FL
 - Power Systems Protection & Coordination
  October 28 - November 1

- Electromechanical relays and FT switches
  November 11 - 13

Service seminar
Houston, TX
October 29 - 30
 
Protective relay school live webcasts
 - Line differential protection fundamentals
  October, 22

- Feeder protection fundamentals
  October, 29

- Line distance protection fundamentals
  November, 5

- Wide area monitoring, control & protection using synchrophasor measurements
  November, 12
 Best practices for high-performing wind farms live webcasts
- Connecting wind power to the grid
  November, 5

Capacitor application seminar
Las Vegas, NV
November 12 - 14 

High voltage service dead tank breaker hands on training
Greensburg, PA
October and November dates
 
Recloser hands on training
Lake Mary, FL
October 22 - 24
 Planning and deploying Tropos mesh networks
Sunnyvale, CA
October 22 - 25
 

Events
Finepoint
Atlanta, GA; Oct 7-11

Western Protective Relay Conference
Spokane, WA; Oct 15-17
 IEEE Transformers Committee
St. Louis, MO; Oct 20-24

Power-Gen International
Orlando, FL; Nov 12-14
 

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