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Utility Enterprise Integration: Utility Mapping, Hydraulic Modeling, and Managed Design Workflows for a Water Utility
Huntsville Utilities: Rob Getman, Project ManagerBentley Systems, Inc.: Jack Cook, VP Water & Wastewater Solutions
4/26/2011Huntsville Utilities, Huntsville, AL
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Outline
• Project Context• Huntsville Utilities• Enterprise strategy
• Joint Solutions Technology Benchmark• Defined• Objectives
• Integrated Geospatial Design Process Highlights• Summary and Conclusion
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Who is Huntsville Utilities?
• Municipally utility owned by the City of Huntsville, AL
• 163,000 Electric, 86,000 Water, 47,000 Gas customers
• 600+ Employees• Headed by 2 Boards
• Waterworks and Gas Board• Electric Utility Board
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Three departments with three design and three mapping standards
Move from…Pens, whiteout, and highlightersMicroStationFRAMME
To…An integrated computer-based mapping, design &
hydraulic modeling system
Huntsville Multi-utility Challenges
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• SAP was going to happen -- on schedule• Need a common design system for preparing work
orders - for all three departments• Avoid manual entry of bill of materials• 25 to 30 Users • Concurrent implementation with SAP – including
building an interface to handle:• Materials, Cost Centers, Compatible Units, Designs
Driver for Change
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• Integrated design system for electric, gas, and water
• Common mapping system• Compatible units for in-house design process• Easy to learn (already know MicroStation)• Low cost• Excellent support
Huntsville Utility Requirements
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Our Implementation
• Expert Designer – Design System• Electric, Gas & Water Designs• Design approval workflow
• ProjectWise – Data Repository• Work Requests come here from SAP • Data repository for designs and all work request related
information• SAP – Work Management System
• Work requests initiated within SAP• Designs submitted back to SAP
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High-Level Information Flow
• New Orders created & sent to PW
• Designs received from PW
SAP
• Data Repository• Synced to SAP
and ED
ProjectWise• Create Designs• Compatible Units• Design Approval
Workflow
Expert Designer
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Phase 1 – Completed August 2009
In coordination with SAP going live we launched: • ProjectWise V8i• Expert Designer V8i• Bentley Electric, Gas & Water V8i• 6,000 Compatible Units• Projects & designs interfaced with SAP
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Phase 2 – Currently Underway
• Upgrade to SS1 (complete)• Conversion to Bentley XFM features in Oracle
Spatial from:• Electric – G/Technology (mostly complete)• Gas – FRAMME (complete)• Water – MicroStation (w/ MSlink) (complete)• Landbase – MicroStation (w/ MSlink) (pending)
• Migrate departmental workflows to new technology(While keeping interface with SAP working)
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THE BENTLEY BENCHMARK
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MicroStation and ProjectWise AssetWise
Facilities
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Exor
sisNET
SUPERLOAD
OptramProsteel
Rebar
ProConcrete
Simulate Construct Operate
OnSite
ArchitectureAutoPIPEAutoPLANTAXSYS Bentley MapBentley Rail Track CADscript Descartes DESIGN ++ Expert DesignerGenerative Components
GEOPAKgINTHaestad Methods HAMMERHevacomp InRoadsLeap BridgeMXOpenPlantPlantSpace
PondPack promis●eRAMRM Bridge SewerGEMS speedikon STAADStormCAD Substation WaterGEMS
Lifecycle Server
Navigator
Why Bentley Needs Benchmarks…
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Buildings Rail and Transit Bridges
Government Mining and Metals Communications
Roads
Campuses
Water and Wastewater
Utilities
Power Generation
Process Manufacturing
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Buildings Rail and Transit Bridges
Government Mining and Metals Communications
Roads
Campuses
Water and Wastewater
Utilities
Power Generation
Process Manufacturing
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What is a Solutions Benchmark?• In partnership with motivated user
• Develop the baseline for future water solution development and regression testing.
• Challenge technology interoperability• Challenge the solution and find the gaps.
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Opportunistic Context• Challenge solution breadth – Mapping, Design,
Analysis, Publishing• Spatially managed engineering content
• Unifying GIS and infrastructure design• Web Publishing• Hydraulic analysis
• Motivated Early Adopter (ELS)• Moving to WaterGEMS hydraulic modeler• Intent on Bentley Water to Oracle Spatial data
migration
• Energized to QC configuration and internally train
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Benchmark Overview• Joint commitment between Huntsville
Utilities and Bentley • Ideally, the initial Phase of 2 or 3
Phase benchmark• Show how simulation workflows can
complement the design system in place at Huntsville Utilities
• Regularly scheduled weekly meetings (commencing early 2010)
• Commitment from Bentley cross-functional & organizational leadership
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Benchmark ObjectivesValidate:
• Integration and management of a real water dataset in Oracle Spatial
• Real world design and “as-builting” workflows• Real world operational workflows facilitated by Oracle
Spatial• Desktop• Web • Dispatch
• Real world modeling scenarios and workflows using Bentley “intra-operability” planning and design of utility expansion and rehabilitations
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Benchmark ObjectivesValidate:
• Real world utility mapping workflows based on integration of new plat data from developers.
• Real world utilities land-base creation and maintenance workflows
• Real world use of web publishing in utilities• Dashboard for publishing water
information• Vehicle for data sharing with city
agencies (fire department)
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Benchmark Project Management• Jointly Staffed
• 7 Huntsville• 17 Bentley
• Program Development• Project Plan• Resource & Budget
• Schedule and Resources• Deliverables
• Workflows• AVIs• Executive Presentation• Solution CD
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Benchmark Scenario & Location• McMullen Cove• New Development East
of Huntsville• Adjacent to Hampton
Cove and Robert Trent Golf Course
• Located on Flint River• 1200 Acres Parks• 8 Miles Walking Trails
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Benchmark Allows Access to DataContributed under data agreement:
• Landbase • DTM• Orthophotos• McMullen Cove Subdivision Plat• Bentley Water V8i DGN/XFM GIS +
Schema• SCADA data for project area• Meter route data for project area• Expert Designer configuration (with
compatible units)• Hydrant flow tests
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Benchmark Scenarios• Hydraulic Model Creation
• Create and extend the GIS interoperability mapping configuration
• Terrain modeling for pressure • Pump and valve models• Load Demands• Calibration Exercise
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Benchmark Scenarios• McMullen Cove Engineering Lifecycle
Simulation• SAP Integration (Simulated) through PW and
ED• Design Process Workflow Automation• Capacity & Service Request• Design of System Expansion
• Landbase and Web Publishing• Existing Orthos, DGN, Address Database,
Esri (Assessor) data migration via Bentley Map
• Maintenance and trouble tickets
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• Create Designs• Compatible Units• Design Approval
Workflow• Capacity Service• Size:
• Pumps• Pipes• Storage
Sustainable Design Workflows
SAP
Expert Designer
WaterGEMS• Water Utility
Mapping• Land-base• Model
synchronization
Bentley Water
• Content Repository:• Design Projects• Hydraulic Models• Web PublishingOracle
Spatial
ProjectWise
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Creating Water Models
• Extract WaterGEMS from Bentley Water
• Mapping clean-ups• Pipe split candidates
• Duplicate nodes
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Example: Adding Camp Ground Road Extension
Modeling Design in Bentley Map
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Hydraulic model update from GISAs a separate scenario to document design changes
Modifications to Hydraulic model
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Hydraulic model – Manages Two Scenarios
Hydraulic Model Design
Before Modifications
Proposed
Existing
C
Child Alternative
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Analysis within Design Platform
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Design Environment: Expert Designer
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Expert Designer – Design Assistant
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End-User Benefits• The following accrue to Huntsville Utilities:
• Parallel execution validates lets Bentley serves as quality assurance vanguard.
• Provides a forum for direct input to the Bentley product and solution development processes at a detail level.
• Offers the opportunity to work directly with Bentley staff to obtain additional Bentley technology knowledge and exchange ideas.
• Establishes Huntsville data as the baseline for future solution testing.
• Receives informative reports and analysis of the benchmark results.
• Opens a door for deeper implementation of Bentley solution stack.
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Concrete Results:
• Several bugs and gaps logged around function and interoperability
• Certification was able to fully exercise solution stack around live data
• Reviewed and tuned HSV Water schema during their development
• Identified and addressed geo-coordination workflow issue
• Helped guide Bentley Water solution early adopter toward success
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Summary
• Bentley Solution Benchmarking yields:• A working example of the solution in an educational
format.• A vehicle that facilitates feedback to Bentley for the
utilities solution.• A more robust solution based on real world
requirements .• Better tested software.
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