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Jackson Electric Cooperative. Facilities Management. Lee Panter. You might be a GIS Professional if: You can navigate a southbound trip without turning the map upside down. You can give directions without mentioning “where the old William’s barn used to be”. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Jackson ElectricCooperative
Facilities Management
Lee Panter
• You might be a GIS Professional if:– You can navigate a southbound trip without
turning the map upside down.– You can give directions without mentioning
“where the old William’s barn used to be”.
– You assume that the people around you are yawning because they are tired!
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Objective
• Provide a possible development process to move from paper to a Facilities Management System
• Show one possible way to do this with limited resources
Overview
• Where we were (pre-2009)• Where we are (2010)• Where we could be going?
Where We Were(pre-2004)
• Hand Drawn Maps– “Flat world” map– No color– Hard to distinguish
between features– Limited information– Hand update of each
map– Little spatial accuracy– Essentially a road
map
What We Did(2004 – 8)
• Purchased ESRI ArcView single user license in early 2004– Obtained digital land base from Jackson
County for our service area• Roads, water courses, etc • Section and Quarter Section lines• Parcels• Orthophoto(s)
– Manually digitized all line/customer data from hand-drawn master map
– Tried to match customer locations to parcels and Orthophoto
– Placed devices, peds, etc
What We Did(2004 – 8), continued
• Tried to integrate StakeOut– Extracted ArcView shapefiles for use as
background maps• Used LookOut • Created new symbology (very limited capability
compared to ESRI)
– Tried to use StakeOut export to ESRI• Cumbersome process• Limited usefulness• Significant problems
– Ended up re-drawing Work Orders in ESRI
What We Did(2004 – 8), continued
• We produced paper maps in 2004, 5, 6, 7, & 8– Updated as the Linemen found errors– Conducted limited on-site surveys– Added new builds, rebuilds,
retirements, etc. as they happened– Each year evolved to achieve
“readability”
What We Did(2004 – 8), continued
• Our line locating is currently done by USIC Locating Services, Inc dba SM&P Utility Resources , Inc.– We provided an electronic map
• Based upon ArcView shapefiles• Slow to load, but useable• Provided just the minimum they needed to
locate our lines• Currently, a yearly update for 2008, 9, & 10
– SM&P seemed to like each version as it evolved
What We Did(2004 – 8), continued
• The final printed version:– 2008 Color Map
• Master Sheet is 36-sections
• 9 – 4 section detail sheets below each master
• Inserts of various sizes are nested below those
• “Locator” info at bottom
• Significant data loaded in the supporting databases, but not available for printing – much too crowded
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Old vs New:Comparison
ArcView, used through 2008
• No Geodatabase• Our Map included;
– Several hundred shapefiles• Overhead and underground primaries were separated by
Sub and circuit, for example– Obtained shapefile data from the County Land
Management office– Obtained Orthophotos initially from the County, then
the State– ArcView is very limited – good for making paper maps
• The new paper map was easier to read, had marginally better “information”, was heavier, and more complex
• We needed to be able to obtain more “information” than was available from a paper map
Our Need
• To answer more in-depth queries on such subjects as:– When was this or that procedure done?– What is the age of a certain item?– What areas can be sprayed?– Etc.
• The questions are all familiar to us, but the “answering process” is usually “cumbersome”
• How do we streamline the process?
Step One: “Look at what you have”
• Sources of “information”– Customer Information
• Computer Programming Services, Inc. (CPS) provides our Customer and Financial management system
• UNIX relational database– Work Order Files
• Paper back to the ‘30’s• Indexed by year-only in the file location• Separate card catalog that referenced WO to Customer Location
– Card catalogs• WO card catalog - time consuming to find the specific WO in the
WO paper files• OCR card catalog – tracked serial number maintenance and a
partial track of where that serial number had been• Paper files on regulators
– “Miscellaneous”• Assorted “lists”, drawings, and “data” scattered in various file
locations
Step Two: “Integrate”
• Customer Information (CPS)– Used Synergy DE to create an ODBC link from CPS
to MS Access– Created various queries in MS Access to select
data from multiple tables in CPS and array it in a manner quickly useful for the Linemen
– The results of these queries were then exported to MS Excel tables that could be either joined or related to specific data points in ArcView shapefiles
– Process is time consuming and “quirky” if you are not trained in database development
Example: “Integration”
Blue = CPSPurple = AccessGreen = ArcView
Integration: “Work Orders”
– The Work Order locator catalog• MS Access Data Base searchable by Customer Location or Work Order
Number• Created MS Excel tables that are related to Customer Locations in ArcView • Integrated PDF images of StakeOut Work Orders (since 2003)
Integration: “Work Orders, continued”
Integration: “Work Orders, continued”
Integration: “Work Orders, continued”
Integration: “Card Catalogs”
– OCR and Regulator data• Tracks maintenance data by serial number• Tracks location data by requirement
Integration: “Miscellaneous”
• Consolidation of:– Line clearing projects– Line inspection– Pole inspection– “No Spray” parcels– Work Plan– Grounding– Etc
• The information for these items is stored in various forms
Lessons Learned
• Defined Goal – if you don’t know where you’re going, it’s hard to know if you got there
• Planning – databases are complex; changes can collapse the whole process
• Training – trial-and-error methods have some benefits, efficiency isn’t one of them
2009Transition Year
• We upgraded our license to ArcEditor• We obtained a copy of the ESRI data model from USG
– The model has many options and attributes– You need significant planning up-front on what you want the
outcome to be– Failure to know the endpoint = confusion, back-tracking,
redesign, time-lost, etc.• We began the transition of shapefiles to a File Geodatabase
– Long process• USG assisted us moving from the File Geodatabase to SQL
Express Geodatabase• We built the Electric Model
– Defined source and sink– Connected all the parts– Final scan to look for disconnected items– Great time to look for discrepancies in CPS data
• Very time consuming and tedious
Where we are Now(2010)
• We have a SQL Express Geodatabase that incorporates:– CPS data on Customers, transformers, etc– Tracks Work Order history by location– Tracks OCR and Regulator maintenance– Provides an electronic map to the linemen,
office personnel, and SM&P– Connections still require manual update
• We have a good base for a Facilities Management system
Where are we going?
• Replace StakeOut with something that integrates easier with ArcEditor?
• Select an Outage Management system?• Place more laptops in trucks?• Find some way to make it easier for the
Linemen to turn in changes– ArcReader?– ArcPad?
• GPS?• System Inventory?
Summary
• We started with a hand-drawn “road map”
• We had scarce resources• We tried to do all the work “in-house”• We did not have a specific end-point/goal• We spent a lot of time trying various
things• We “evolved” to where we are now
Summary,Continued
• We have a good, basic, Facilities management System
• We need to broaden and deepen the “information” contained
• We learned a lot, but do not recommend this approach except in a constrained-resources environment
Jackson Electric Cooperative
• Lee Panter, GIS & IT Tech• [email protected]• 1-800-370-4607• N6868 County Rd F• Black River Falls, WI 54615-546