Survalent Category: Operational Improvements

Is there such a thing as the right offline environment? You bet there is!

Have you tried jogging in dress shoes? You can do it, but not without hurting your feet. Same goes with ADMS offline environments - you can certainly edit in your production environment but at what cost? There’s always a reason [...]

Not everything is better with a human touch. You need automation.

You might have heard that a human aspect makes a company better. Although that might be true in most cases, for electric utilities facing massive storms, nothing beats automation. A control room can feel like a war zone during storms. [...]

Six Reasons to Choose Survalent

Reason # 1: Customer centricity is the core of our business Tired of chasing down your vendors, vying for their attention to get resources allocated to your upgrade or implementation? Need your voice to be heard amongst the sea [...]

Schematic Generator for Faster, Easier Switching Operations

Time is a precious commodity in the control room. Minutes can be particularly critical when switching and load transfer operations are necessary. Schematic Generator is an add-on application for SmartVU that improves the ease and efficiency of switching and load [...]

Expensive, complex, and time-consuming? Dispelling the myths about FLISR and LOV.

Utilities throughout the world are under pressure to ensure a reliable supply of high-quality power to their customers. Deploying Fault Location, Isolation, and Service Restoration (FLISR) is one of the most reliable ways to do so. With FLISR, you can [...]

It’s Time to End your Reliance on Vendors for Upgrades, Configurations, and Implementations

Systems upgrades and grid modernization plans came to an abrupt and prolonged halt for many utilities recently, as an unexpected weakness in pandemic/emergency plans came to light. The problem? Reliance on onsite visits from software vendor technicians for configurations, upgrades, [...]

Remote ADMS Implementations – Myth or Reality?

Pandemic response measures have had a massive impact on SCADA, Outage Management System (OMS), and Distribution Management System (DMS) application implementations and upgrades. In cases where vendors are restricted from coming onsite, many utilities have had no choice but to [...]

Modernize Your Network With A Single Platform Solution

As mentioned in our featured article, ADMS should deliver a shared network model and a single user experience. Many utilities are already migrating away from obsolete ADMS solutions to future-proof their operations. Often, they’re looking for a centralized ADMS that [...]

You Don’t Have To Be At Your Desk To Be In-The-Know

You can’t always be in the control room but that doesn’t stop issues from happening. Whether you don’t have a 24/7 control room, are a multi-tasking team member, are on a break, or are in a meeting, there’s an ever-present [...]

Three Ways Mobile Crew Improves your Outage Management System

For utilities, an Outage Management System (OMS) is an important application for managing outages effectively. OMS, when integrated with SCADA and the customer service centre, can help you better coordinate outage response activities, resolve outages faster, and increase transparency to [...]

Tips & Tricks for optimizing alarms in SurvalentONE SCADA

Whether it’s an open circuit breaker or a tree on a line, unplanned issues are always going to crop up in utility operations. In these situations, time is of the essence to identify issues and keep the grid operating as [...]

Tips & Tricks for using SmartVU’s Trend Graphs

The surest way to prevent outages is to address issues before they occur. That requires access to real-time feeder data, historical data points, and baseline indices so you can identify when your network is trending toward an overload or breakdown [...]