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SAG – a brief profile

The SAG Group is the leading partner for the energy related infrastructure of public utilities and industrial companies. SAG provides manufacturer-independent services and systems for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, gas, water and telecommunication networks. Approx. 8,500 employees generated revenue of around € 1.2 Billion. SAG is present nationwide in Germany with over 120 locations and with subsidiaries in France, Poland, Hungary, Czechia and Slovakia.

Since its foundation in 1916, the company has played a leading role in the construction and expansion of electri-cal transmission and distribution networks in Germany and internationally.

The company’s business activities are focussed on sector-specific, integrated overall solutions covering all added-value stages of asset management and asset services and addressing the entire lifecycle of the systems and resources.

SAG attaches significant importance to cooperation and collaboration with its customers and suppliers based on partnership, reliability and mutual trust.

To achieve their ambitious aims, the SAG companies con-sistently exchange their know-how with each other and operate in accordance with best-practice processes – in line with the principle that “SAG is more than the sum of its individual parts“.

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SAG Public Utility Solutions

Public utility companies are nowadays assigned a wide range of different tasks. Optimal and sustainable organisation of these tasks during their daily business requires coordinated processes and comprehensive IT support.

In addition to classic documentation tasks for the different application modules, the SAG CeGIT Division has bundled competence and know-how under “Public Utility Solutions”. In practice this means alignment of solutions and products to the needs of public utilities, with the focus on the following aspects:

• Resource information • Geoinformation • Data collection • Consulting • Network planning • Integration • Asset management

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Resource information

A major element of the companies’ assets is tied up in resources such as stations, lines or distribution stations. To ensure that the assets can be used for a long time and sustainably and reliably by the companies, regular monitoring and inspection in accordance with fixed rules is indispensable.

The necessary data base for this is provided by resource information systems (RISs). In these systems, information and data from a range of different sources is consolidated and is supplemented by specific additional information.

The intelligent use of information for operative and strategic aspects of maintenance is referred to as Smart Maintenance. IT support plays a central role in the derivation of decisions on the maintenance and replace-ment policy for systems and networks. Smart process support demands entry and recording of maintenance-related data without media discontinuity during running operations. This forms the basis for focussed and sound decisions in network management.

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Advantages:• Overview of all resources• Process-oriented network data management• Integrated data management• Use of Web services• Reliable analyses and evaluations• Master data maintenance with GIS integration

Solutions:• Status-oriented maintenance support• End-to-end organisation of fault correction• Evaluation of network assets• Support of planning and construction• Resource planning• Automated report generation• Working on a cross-sector basis

Products:• MABI2.0• xRCM

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Geoinformation

The application area of digital geoinformation has significantly expanded with the development of modern information and communication technologies. Paper maps, for example, have been replaced by digitized data. This development now enables us to link data directly to spatial information, and to access, select and evaluate the data and information from any location. Modern pub-lic utility companies can make use of these capabilities and make their processes even more efficient.

Advantages:• Complete information in respect of resource data• Display and analysis of the network topology• Simulation of standard circuits• Line tracing• Line statistics• Reduction of the load on resources• Information can be called up digitally at any time at

all workplaces• Optimal use of legacy data, avoidance of new data entry• Entry of construction site data, display of the site

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Solutions:• Introduction of GI systems• Digital online planning information• Data analysis• Mobile applications• Migration of legacy data• Data processing for the network calculation• Derivation of overview planning documents• Geodata management• System integration• Construction site management• Document management

Products:• GISMobil• GISMobil-Web• WebGIS• BONUS-Scan• MABI2.0-Pi

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Data collection

Data collection covers data entry or surveying tasks.

One example is the determination of inventory documen-tation for planning tasks, for marking out construction sites or for new systems.

Since inventory documentation can nowadays only be economically managed in digital format, we work with the latest electronic tachymeters and GPS technologies. SAG has many years of experience and know-how in data collection.

Advantages:• Reduction of setup times• Ability to cope with peak loads• Professional data collection• Digital planning documents• Reduction of the staff workload

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Solutions:• Data collection for geoinformation systems• Initial data entry, adding and updating data• Entry and comparison of data and on-site stocks• Surveying services• Line information• Duct analyses• Construction support measures (e.g. staking out)• Inventory-taking for surface and underground

civil engineering planning tasks• System documentation for companies• Topographical inventories• Routing tasks

Products:• BONUS-Scan• MABI2.0-da

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Consulting

We advise and assist you in the selection of tools and solutions, independent of the manufacturer and the platform.

Together with you we develop best-practice solutions and processes. We obtain the optimum for you via con-tinuous benchmarking of your solution both nationally and internationally.

On request, we also provide support functions for all GIS-related topics, since we have the necessary mix of well-founded and long-standing sector, process and IT expertise in this area and can act quickly and economi-cally thanks to our regional presence.

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Advantages:• Cost reduction• Process optimisation• Cost-effective system introduction

Solution:• Analysis of the current situation• Weak point analysis• Target concept• System selection

Products:• NIS.check• AM.check

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Network planning

Well-functioning networks are a prerequisite for numerous infrastructure services.

To ensure continued supply without fluctuations, net-works must continuously be inspected and evaluated and where necessary expanded. The basis for the correct strat-egy and the associated measures is provided by advance network calculations, simulations and plan variants.

This applies not just to the medium-voltage networks. Small-scale distribution networks are also subject to special dynamics, resulting primarily from the regenera-tive energies of a local feeder. Smart grids are designed to intelligently control networks and to integrate other components (e-mobility, smart meter). The development of a smart grid requires qualified, dynamic data.

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Advantages• Planning support for the network expansion• GPS-supported route analysis• Cost-optimised investment planning• A basis for investment planning

Solutions:• Short-circuit calculations• Load flow calculations• Modelling of power networks• Analysis of power networks (10 kV/30 kV)• Automated data quality assurance• Data selection and provision• Calculation of low-voltage networks with local feeders

Products:• GBOS• GISMobil-NECAL-P/-E• Route planning tool

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Integration

Data integration is the central task of effective network data management. In many companies an extremely wide range of digital information sources are combined to support day-to-day business.

In public utility companies, several independent systems are in use. In this case, it is particularly important to ensure that the data used is correct and up to date. Structured configuration of object relations offers the advantage that reporting once again becomes routine. Integration thus forms the basis for increased quality of the network data.

Only on the basis of up-to-date and reliable data, which can come from a range of different sources, are well-founded, timely and far-sighted responses possible.

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Advantages:• Cross-departmental use of data• Avoidance of multiple data maintenance

Solutions:• Dovetailing of data and systems• Use of data from third-party systems• Mapping of processes using IT• Enabling cross-system and cross-platform

analyses and evaluations• Increasing data quality• Automation of data maintenance

Products:• GBOS• MABI2.0-Pi

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Asset Management

The core areas of competence of public utility companies are regularly surrounded by new products and business areas. As a consequence, public utilities are often faced with additional demands, including of an economic nature, and regulatory conditions and constraints.

Application of company knowledge and information for operative and strategic maintenance optimisation, i.e. IT support for the derivation of decisions in respect of the maintenance and replacement policy for systems and networks, is necessary here.

Implementation of smart process support requires entry and recording of maintenance-related data without media discontinuity during running operations; this forms the basis for focussed and sound decisions in modern network management. Existing IT systems, processes and organ- isations must also be aligned and optimised.

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Advantages:• Increased benefits via integration• Extensive use of GIS data• Additional added value• Transparent processes• Control of redundancies• Use of IT standards• An ability to plan and invest for the future• Mobile workflows

Solutions:• Smart Maintenance• Smart Grid• Smart Metering• Smart FttX

Products:• MABI2.0-Pi• xRCM• GBOS• AM.check

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