Enporion Announces Availability of eVMS - electronic Vegetation Management Solution; Asplundh Tree Expert Co. Becomes First Customer and Distributor to Utility Industry.TAMPA, Fla. -- Enporion, the leading provider of sourcing and procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. services for energy and other industries, today announced the availability of a comprehensive set of technology tools to meet emerging requirements in utility vegetation management programs. Additionally, Asplundh Tree Expert Co. has signed a license and distribution agreement with Enporion to bring eVMS - the electronic Vegetation Management Solution - to its customers in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. . In recent years, increased national concerns regarding electric service reliability have led the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Electric Reliability Council (NERC NERC Natural Environment Research Council (UK) NERC North American Electric Reliability Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey, USA) NERC Northeast Recycling Council NERC National Environment Research Council ) to develop the first national utility vegetation management (UVM UVM University of Vermont UVM Universidad del Valle de México UVM Universitas Viridis Montis (University of the Green Mountains aka University of Vermont) UVM Universal Voice Module (Cisco) ) standard. This new set of requirements will impact every electric utility that manages vegetation adjacent to transmission voltage lines. Utilities will be required to document and report on many aspects of their UVM programs including clearances, processes, work scheduled and tasks accomplished, among others. eVMS will enable utilities to meet these new requirements, to acquire and maintain the data needed to properly manage vegetation, and to increase the overall efficiency of their UVM program. eVMS will also be useful to organizations that are managing vegetation in any public rights-of-way for other facilities as well. eVMS was developed by three companies in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. with a strong heritage of providing new technology and services to the electric energy and utility industry: Enporion, ViryaNet, and CN Utility Consulting. CN Utility Consulting, with many years of experience in consulting on utility vegetation management issues, provides product definition leadership. Enporion is responsible for the development and operation of eVMS, and incorporated key capabilities from ViryaNet's proven work management system, Service Hub. eVMS's patent-pending business process and systems provide the necessary tools and support for utilities to plan, execute, and report on every aspect of transmission and/or distribution vegetation management programs and activities. Such activities may include performing an inventory of vegetation, prioritizing pruning pruning, the horticultural practice of cutting away an unwanted, unnecessary, or undesirable plant part, used most often on trees, shrubs, hedges, and woody vines. activities, and scheduling the resources (people and equipment) to perform the required tasks. The system will enable significant process efficiencies for Asplundh and its customers, will allow utilities to comply with and report on new NERC mandatory transmission clearance requirements, and will help these companies in improving overall T&D system reliability. A pre-production field trial of eVMS has been successfully completed with Asplundh and Southern California Edison Southern California Edison (or SCE Corp), the largest subsidiary of Edison International (NYSE: EIX), is the primary electricity supply company for much of Southern California. It provides 11 million people with electricity. . The project, conducted in the second half of 2005, clearly demonstrated the capabilities of eVMS to capture and update inventory information, dispatch work assignments to crews, capture completed work, and report results. The field trial confirmed that eVMS provided more timely information on completed work and streamlined vegetation management processes to make better use of resources. As a result of the agreement announced recently, Asplundh Tree Expert Co. will now market and distribute eVMS. Adopting eVMS's state-of-the-art system will help Asplundh's customers manage their vegetation programs more effectively. "Asplundh has a long history of identifying new processes and tools that have driven productivity improvements in the utility vegetation management process," said Scott Asplundh, president of Asplundh Tree Expert Co. "eVMS is a technology tool that will streamline many aspects of that process for our customers, thereby improving reliability and helping with regulatory reporting." "Almost two years ago, we began the eVMS development work with our partners CNUC CNUC Canadian Nazarene University College (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) CNUC Consejo Nacional Urbano Campesino (National Urban-Rural Council; Tlaxcala, Mexico) and ViryaNet," said George Gordon George Gordon may refer to:
Additional information on eVMS may be found at http://www.evmsolution.com or by contacting Enporion. About Enporion Enporion is a supply chain management technology and services company, providing strategic sourcing and e-procurement applications. Enporion's Supply Chain Manager(R), an integrated suite of e-commerce tools, delivers cost reduction through price and process savings, and includes capabilities in catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. management, supplier adoption and connection, spend analysis, sourcing project management, electronic RFx's, Supplier Relationship Management, and contract management. Applications are delivered in a Software-as-a-Service environment. The company's Web address is http://www.enporion.com. |
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