Israel Electric Corporation, Ltd.
this project was to estimate the cost of the
conversion process.
The Israel Electric Corp. (IEC) is responsible for
150 substations, and its engineers are involved
with dozens of substation design projects per
year. This project included three subprojects:
extending the functionality of Bentley Substation
Design-Electric (previously known as EED_POW-ER) to include support of multi-panel schematics
and internal and external wiring; conducting a
feasibility study to ensure that engineering data
and drawings from IEC’s old system could be converted to the new solution; and integrating
Substation Design-Electric with IEC’s existing
product data management system.
IEC conducted two pilot projects: The first
involved the addition of new medium-voltage
switchgear in an existing substation, for which the
existing design was based on conventional manu-
al drawings. The second involved an existing stan-
dard indoor and outdoor substation based on
converted data from the old system. The scope of
The most important differences between
Substation Design-Electric and the old sys-
tem are: the ability to retrieve all engineer-
ing information about project elements (equip-
ment details and electrical connections) on line
during the working design; the ability to run engi-
neering checks during the work process and not
only as the last step of the design process; and the
ability to save and retrieve engineering informa-
tion according to the project versions. ;
Gas Geographic Relational Information Data System
(GRIDS)
GEOSPATIAL UTILITIES
PHI Service Company
GRIDS is an MDL-based AM/FM application for
tracking gas facilities such as pipelines, values,
regulator stations, and miscellaneous equipment.
GRIDS comprises a Delaware landbase and gas
facility facetted MicroStation DGN files.
It is also a sophisticated document management
and retrieval system. UTM coordinates, subdivisions, schools, shopping centers, and other criteria can be used to retrieve the proper files. GRIDS
contains a custom plotting application that allows
engineering teams to choose groups of tiled maps
for customized plotting layouts.
GRIDS was originally written to batch load its
database records to the IBM mainframe;
today its elements are stored in parallel Oracle
facility databases via MicroStation’s attribute link-
ages. A read-only version of GRIDS was recently
ported to MicroStation PowerDraft.
books. Viewing gas pipeline data in the trucks, for
instance, has now become paperless throughout
the company. ;
With GRIDS, all design work is done electronically, eliminating the need for replicating large map
