GRAPEVINE, Texas, May 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ:
TRMB) announced today the availability of Trimble® GasOMS™ system,
an integrated outage management solution that enables natural gas
utilities to model and simulate outage planning, streamline service
restoration workflows, automate communications during service
interruptions, and enhance Distribution Integrity Management Plan
(DIMP) reporting. By using Trimble GasOMS, natural gas utilities
can reduce operational costs, keep customers better informed during
outages, and support regulatory reporting requirements with
compliance data that is traceable, verifiable and defensible.
The announcement was made at the American Gas Association
Operations Conference & Biennial Exhibition.
"Trimble GasOMS is an ideal solution to enable natural gas
utilities to better manage risk, enhance crew and public safety,
streamline communications and improve operational performance,"
said Matti Syyrakki, business area director, Trimble Energy North
America. "Trimble GasOMS is the latest release in our suite of
software applications designed to transform utility operations by
integrating field and back office systems and automating workflows
across the enterprise."
Trimble GasOMS allows gas utilities to streamline restoration
workflows by integrating and automating communication between
operations personnel and field crews. The outage management
solution can identify affected customer locations and assist in
prioritizing critical customers, such as hospitals and schools.
Trimble GasOMS can also integrate with other solutions, such as
Trimble Field Inspector, a robust maintenance and inspection
solution for optimizing utility field operations.
For large-scale outages, Trimble GasOMS can provide natural gas
utilities with a workflow process to better coordinate multi-agency
support for more effective response and service restoration.
Trimble GasOMS also supports a Web-based outage map to keep
customers and the general public informed of service outage status
and can integrate to messaging systems to send notices to
customers.
By logging tasks and interactions during an outage, Trimble
GasOMS can create a digital historian to provide real-time
information for the gas utility incident commander. The digital
historian can then be used in the DIMP and other compliance
reporting requirements as well as after action reviews and
analysis, training and process improvement. The solution can
integrate with other Trimble and third-party applications including
work order management, Customer Information System (CIS),
Geographic Information System (GIS) and field data collection
solutions.
Trimble GasOMS is the latest release in a suite of Trimble
Energy products and solutions that address a broad range of smart
utility network operations—from planning, design and construction
to operations and maintenance.
About Trimble Energy
Trimble Energy provides operations, asset management and
maintenance solutions to hundreds of utilities worldwide. Trimble
combines high-accuracy positioning products with field and office
solutions to enable electric and gas utilities to plan, manage and
optimize distribution operations. Utilities use Trimble's energy
solutions to increase field worker safety and productivity, enhance
regulatory compliance, and improve customer service and
communications.
For more information,
visit: www.trimble.com/energy.
About Trimble
Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in
businesses and government significantly more productive. Solutions
are focused on applications requiring position or
location—including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and
asset management, public safety and mapping. In addition to
utilizing positioning technologies, such as GPS, lasers and optics,
Trimble solutions may include software content specific to the
needs of the user. Wireless technologies are utilized to deliver
the solution to the user and to ensure a tight coupling of the
field and the back office. Founded in 1978, Trimble is
headquartered in Sunnyvale,
Calif.
For more information, visit: www.trimble.com.
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