A building block approach to automated engineering: SVEC is building the engineer's dream on a limited budget

摘要

The engineer's dream is to buy a suite of engineering applications containing a geographic information system (GIS), supervisory control and data acquisition system (SCADA), distribution analysis (DA), outage management, load management, automated meter reading (AMR) and a few others, install them and immediately begin using them. Unfortunately, it's just a dream. A lot of time, effort and money must go into planning, data collection, data entry, modeling, customization, integration, training and maintenance-accompanied by frustration, rethinking and changes-before a working automated system becomes a reality.