Colton Public Utilities & City Live With Synergen Series EAM/CMMS; All City Departments Integrated for Asset Optimization.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WALNUT CREEK Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2003 Synergen, Inc. (www.synergen.com), a leading provider of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM (1) (Enterprise Asset Management) The management and control of the information technology assets within the enterprise. The asset management repository includes a description of the asset as well as contract information pertaining to its acquisition. ) and Computerized Maintenance Management (CMMS CMMS Computerized Maintenance Management System CMMS Computerized Maintenance Management Software CMMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMMS Conceptual Model of the Mission Space CMMS Center for Multilingual Multicultural Studies ) solutions, today announced that the city of Colton, California Colton is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States. The population was 47,662 at the 2000 census. Colton is the site of Colton Crossing, one of the busiest at-grade railroad crossings in the United States. , is live with the Synergen Series(TM) city-wide, including its three city public utilities divisions. Colton Public Utilities owns, operates and maintains its own electric power transmission and distribution network, and water and wastewater treatment services for the city. Independent electric supply to the city will also be in effect when construction of its own 43 megawatt power plant is complete and online by July 1, 2003. The city's first priority had been procurement of an EAM solution to track projects, labor and associated capital project costs for their public utilities. To maximize cost savings and increase efficiencies, the scope of the project was expanded to integrate all city departments with a single solution to support community service requests, maintenance, purchasing and inventory control, as well as address regulatory mandates. "The Synergen Series now gives us the means to accurately track project costs, which was a primary goal," said Dilu Dealwis, finance director for the city of Colton. "Another key objective was a fully-integrated enterprise-wide asset management system with complete maintenance functionality that will help us better serve our population and comply with federal regulations such as CMOM CMOM Capacity Management, Operations, and Maintenance CMOM Certified Medical Office Manager . Our implementation was successful and Synergen's core team was invaluable in training and getting us up and running -- Synergen was absolutely the best choice for Colton from the start and well into the future." "The city of Colton is unique in that they own and operate their own water, wastewater and electric power utilities. They required a scalable EAM solution in order to address the distinct needs of each separate city entity, and with seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. to the city's financial system," said Richard MacDonald, 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 Synergen. "The Synergen Series was architected to support the exacting but varied needs of organizations like Colton, while maintaining the flexibility to keep pace with changing economic, environmental and regulatory requirements." Synergen's Web-architected CMMS/EAM software suite, the Synergen Series(TM), addresses all aspects of MRO MRO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mauritanian Ouguiya. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. including: collaborative work management, asset reliability and maintenance; inventory control, purchasing, and contract management; operational accounting; reporting and analysis; project tracking; safety and regulatory compliance; and document control. Supported by the latest in Internet technology, users need only a standard Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. to rapidly install, deploy and access Synergen solutions across the enterprise. About Synergen Synergen, Inc. has built an industry-wide reputation for excellence with the Synergen Series(TM), recently being named 2003 MRO Gold Product of the Year by Plant Services magazine -- the only EAM/CMMS vendor to be recognized with this prestigious award for two consecutive years. Established in 1986, Synergen has major installations in capital-intensive industries such as process and discrete manufacturing Fabricating products by assembling components and subsystems into larger systems. The automated assembly line is the prime example of discrete manufacturing such as in the making of automobiles, household appliances and computer systems. , energy, chemicals, mining and metals, food processing, pulp and paper, as well as non-manufacturing industries, such as transportation, health care, education, aerospace/defense, government agencies, utilities, water services, municipalities and those organizations faced with fleet and facility management challenges. 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