Major GIS sale to UK electricity supplier
An
Autodesk product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Dec 12, 2001
Autodesk has signed a contract with United Utilities for the provision of a GIS utility application for its electricity distribution network division, formerly known as Norweb Distribution.
Autodesk has signed a contract with United Utilities for the provision of a GIS utility application for its electricity distribution network division, formerly known as Norweb Distribution.
The $3.8M fixed price contract, plus an additional contract for support of packaged software over the next three years makes this Autodesk's largest sale of a GIS solution for so far this year.
United Utilities incorporates businesses involved in licensed multi-utility operations, asset management services, customer management outsourcing and telecommunications.
United Utilities Service Delivery provides a 58,000km electricity network for 2.1million customers in the north west of England.
Within its licensed multi-utility operations, United Utilities also provides water and wastewater services to almost 3 million customers.
The water business was formerly known as North West Water, an existing, long-term Autodesk customer using an Autodesk GIS solution to manage its water network assets.
Implementing GIS across all areas of the business is part of a five-year strategy to build on the synergies of the multi-utility and to deliver £450m in cost savings over five-years.
United Utilities selected the Autodesk solution in March 2001 and delivery will have been completed by April 2002.
The customer business solution is based on the provision of an Autodesk GIS Design Server, Autodesk Map and Autodesk MapGuide applications.
The solution will allow United Utilities to update and maintain its electricity utility asset records, whilst also providing access to this information to business and technical users via a web browser.
Functionality includes electricity network tracing, gazetteering, rules and workflow-based data update, along with integration with United Utilities Water Utility asset information.
The solution is being implemented by Autodesk's Worldwide Consulting Services Group and the additional three year support contract will be delivered by Autodesk's Worldwide Support Services organisation.
As part of the overall solution, Autodesk is also partnering with one of its resellers, Cad Capture, for work associated with the Data Conversion aspect of the project.
Paul Wadsworth, GIS project manager at United Utilities says: "The Autodesk solution will allow us to set tighter standards within the business.
This new technology will not only enable United Utilities to deal with problems faster, it will give us the capability to manage the business more efficiently through access to better data.
In turn we will pass on benefits to our customers such as a speedier service and cost reductions.
Wadsworth concludes, "We spoke to other utility companies that were using bespoke Autodesk solutions.
They were all very impressed by the services and support received from Autodesk.
Our first impression is that the functionality is very rich and that we have purchased a flexible toolset - we are now in the process of raising the IT skills of our staff to move forward with the new solution.
Not what you're looking for? Search the site.
Contact Autodesk
Tel +44 1252 456789
Other Autodesk stories
-
Autodesk Inventor delivers digital prototyping
Autodesk has announced that Wild West Motor Company has selected the company's Autodesk Inventor software for digital prototyping. -
Autodesk expands options for Mac users
Autodesk and Parallels have announced that they have signed an agreement to make Parallels Desktop for Mac Autodesk's preferred Mac virtualisation software. -
Autodesk Algor Simulation 2010 products launched
Autodesk has announced the release of Autodesk Algor Simulation 2010 products, following the integration of the recently acquired Algor software. -
AutoCAD has benefits of model-based design
Autodesk has announced the availability of AutoCAD Plant 3D 2010, a software product that brings the benefits of model-based design to mainstream Planauto CAD Plant 3D Box Shott design projects. -
Autodesk enhances 3DS Max Design software
At Siggraph 2009, Autodesk has announced the Connection Extension for Autodesk 3DS Max Design 2010 modelling, animation and rendering software.
Browse by category
-
Capital Equipment (3,533)
- Capital Equipment (1)
- Compressors and Air Treatment (546)
- Electrical hardware (131)
- Electronics Manufacturing, Tools, Instruments (192)
- Machinery and Production Equipment (1,133)
- Manufacturing Machinery and Plant Equipment (478)
- Production line blowers and fans (74)
- Robotics, Handling and Storage (978)
- Consultancy and Services (927)
-
Control and Instrumentation (5,142)
- Cabling, Conduit, Signal Conditioning (818)
- CNC and Motion Controllers (190)
- Control and Instrumentation (3)
- HMIs/Operator Interfaces (297)
- Logic Controllers, Timers and Relays (96)
- Mid-range and Large PLCs (204)
- Plant- and Machine-Wide Communications (1,210)
- Plantwide control (1,354)
- Power Supplies, Uninterruptible Power (577)
- Smaller-Sized PLCs (393)
-
Drives, Motors and Controls (3,450)
- Drives, Motors and Controls (2)
- Industrial Drives/Controls (1,293)
- Industrial Motors (502)
- Linear Drives and Motors (121)
- Precision Motors and Gears (434)
- Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls (1,096)
-
Electrical and Electronic Equipment Design (4,327)
- Batteries, chargers and circuit protection (588)
- Connectors, Terminals, Busbars, Slip Rings (724)
- Electrical and Electronic Components (652)
- Electrical and Electronic Equipment Design (4)
- Electrical and Electronic Subassemblies (377)
- Enclosures and Equipment Cooling Fans (722)
- Knobs, Handles and Enclosure Hardware (430)
- PCs and Embedded Systems (830)
-
Engineering Design Software (6,388)
- 2D CAD software (203)
- 3D CAD software (1,199)
- CAM, CNC, production management software (583)
- Data, document management software (324)
- Electrical design software (168)
- Engineering Design Software (17)
- FEA and structural analysis software (377)
- File conversion software, data capture (358)
- Fluid, thermal, noise, vibration software (340)
- Materials design and moulding design software (153)
- Maths, charting, statistics, QA software (325)
- PLM and collaboration software (665)
- Process, instrumentation, automation software (269)
- Publishing and documentation software (234)
- Rendering, visualisation, styling software (208)
- Simulation, modelling, validation software (965)
-
Engineering Industry News, Resources (6,199)
- Electronic Resources for Engineers (273)
- Engineering Business News, Views (388)
- Engineering Conferences (438)
- Engineering Education, Resources, Standards (851)
- Engineering Exhibitions, Events (578)
- Engineering Guides, Newsletters (354)
- Engineering Industry Developments, Awards (635)
- Engineering Industry News, Resources (4)
- Engineering Industry Reports, Surveys (597)
- Engineering Recruitment, Employment (219)
- Engineering Seminars (421)
- Engineering Training Courses (458)
- Health and Safety Consultancy, Software (180)
- Health and Safety Events, Training, News (285)
- Health and Safety Legislation (403)
- Health and Safety Strategy, Risk Assessment (115)
- Machine Building (4,633)
-
Materials and Processing (3,041)
- Materials and components (2,272)
- Materials and Processing (5)
- Materials processing and testing (292)
- Rapid Prototyping (472)
-
Monitoring, Measurement and Quality (5,681)
- Data Acquisition Hardware and PC I/O Boards (491)
- Data acquisition Software and Communications (505)
- Data loggers (428)
- Electrical and Electronic Testing, PAT Equipment (645)
- Form/co-ordinate, optical, vision instruments (766)
- Gauges, Indicators and Instruments (449)
- Materials testing equipment (439)
- Monitoring, Measurement and Quality (1)
- Telecomms/network test equipment, software etc (159)
- Testing and Calibration Services and Information (522)
- Testing, analysing and monitoring equipment (1,276)
-
Powertrain Design (3,723)
- Bearings (986)
- Chains and belts (334)
- Gears, brakes, couplings and engines (1,482)
- Hydraulic Components (475)
- Lubricants (441)
- Powertrain Design (4)
-
Sensors (7,319)
- Accelerometers and Vibration Sensors (450)
- Barcode Sensors (103)
- Flowmeters and Flow Sensors (650)
- Gas, Chemical, Radiation, Magnetic Sensors (294)
- Humidity and Environmental Sensors (158)
- Level Sensors and Leak Detectors (539)
- Linear Position Sensors (417)
- Loadcells, Force Sensors, Torque Sensors (732)
- Pressure sensors (643)
- Proximity Sensors (715)
- Rotary Position, Tilt and Angular Sensors (565)
- Sensors (12)
- Temperature sensors (624)
- Vision and Colour Sensors (1,417)
- Small Mechanical Components, Joining, Tools (2,057)
- Valves, Pumps, Process Hardware (3,732)
