ArcFM, designed with business partner Miner and Miner, provides LES will complete data management and editing capabilities for network and land base data. Along with additional operations applications, potential applications will be used in engineering, trouble analysis, marketing, and finance as well. GIS will be used to perform general data maintenance, allowing staff to add, delete, and modify facilities data, and to post data from work order as-built drawings. Users can perform ad hoc queries and reporting functions to retrieve spatial and attribute data based on a variety of measures, including spatial and attribute. For example, users can query the database for all poles that are over 20 years old or they can select all transformers downstream from a specified switch, then instantly see a map of that information.
Users can also perform complex tasks, such as traces, through the utility's connectivity model.
Dispatchers can also track temporary status of switches by either identifying the switch graphically or by entering a unique identifier. GIS also tracks the name of the dispatcher, the data and time when the change is made, and notes entered by the dispatcher. Additional applications will include transformer load management, switching order generation, and work order definition. Map data can be used for work order management, crew management, trouble analysis, trouble call taking, property and easement management, and more. But the power of the GIS is more than just in the complex geospatial problems it solves.