Boston Edison announces new service.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 1996--Boston Edison Co. today launched its "Power Systems Services" which will provide businesses with a wide range of cost saving options for designing, installing and maintaining internal electrical distribution systems. Edison announced its new service at the New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. Plant Engineering and Maintenance Show being held at the World Trade Center in Boston. Thomas J. May, chairman, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Boston Edison said, "Providing services such as switch-gear and transformer transformer, electrical device used to transfer an alternating current or voltage from one electric circuit to another by means of electromagnetic induction. testing and maintenance on the customer side of the meter is a significant change for Boston Edison. Offering Power Systems Services to a greatly expanded market, further demonstrates our leadership role in the rapidly changing electric utility industry. We are excited about the opportunity to combine technology and experience to provide new services to the business community." Edison's Power Systems Services combines innovative technology and more than a century of electrical industry expertise to help business customers reduce operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales while increasing productivity, reliability, efficiency and safety. The utility will provide clients with a menu of services such as system design and engineering, construction and installation, and operations and maintenance. Boston Edison has been test marketing the Power Systems Services concept for the past year and has completed projects for companies such as the Bank of Boston, Instrumentation Labs Inc., of Lexington, and the Boston meat packing firm Dole and Bailey. In addition, Edison has performed services for the towns of Mansfield and South Hadley South Hadley, residential town (1990 pop. 16,685), Hampshire co., W Mass., on the Connecticut River near the Holyoke Range; settled 1684, inc. 1775. Its paper industry dates from the early 19th cent. , Mass. Reception to Edison's Power Systems Services partnerships has been very positive. Charles Kidder, facilities manager for Instrumentation Labs Inc. said, "Boston Edison completed a preventive maintenance The routine checking of hardware that is performed by a field engineer on a regularly scheduled basis. See remedial maintenance. preventive maintenance - (PM) To bring down a machine for inspection or test purposes. See provocative maintenance, scratch monkey. program at my facility that was of the highest quality. Their prices were less than their competitors and I was very satisfied." Dole and Bailey's Director of Operations, Scott Matheson, focused on reliability and said his company chose Boston Edison because, "We sell more than $40 million in product to restaurants and stores throughout New England, and we can't afford to lose our power supply for any amount of time." Robert J. Becker, Boston Edison's manager of product management and field marketing, said, "Our success in the evolving electric utility business will be based on our ability to understand and fulfill ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. customer needs. We are doing that by combining talent from competitive industries with our utility expertise and access to the newest technologies. Our team saw that business customers have a need for Power Systems Services and our ability to respond to those needs is helping them to be more competitive in their respective industries." Becker said, "The success of our Power Systems Services program may have been best stated by a Boston area college official." Richard Wahlgren, assistant dean of facilities management The management of a user's computer installation by an outside organization. All operations including systems, programming and the datacenter can be performed by the facilities management organization on the user's premises. at Bunker Hill Community College Bunker Hill Community College is a two-year college located in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which is a neighborhood of Boston. It is an urban campus with a very diverse student body of over 8,500. Six in ten students are people of color and more than half of all students are women. said, "There is a comfort level I feel with Boston Edison that I don't have with other contractors. I know they're reliable and the quality of the work they do is excellent." CONTACT: Boston Edison Mike Monahan 617/424-2460 617/541-7888 (Evenings and Weekends) |
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