Fort Collins, CO -- The City of Concord, serving 26,000 customers in North Carolina, went into production with Miner & Miner’s Designer product in August of this year. The project, led by Advantica, began in February and was completed within six months.

The City of Concord has used ArcFM for facility information management in the Electrical Engineering Department for the last five years. After the migration to ArcFM 8 in 1999, which enabled them to use industry standard data models, the utility began searching for design and work management systems that could integrate with their existing GIS. By selecting Designer, the City was able to integrate existing business workflow and manage projects from inception and design to as-builting and production. Miner & Miner wrote a customized cost engine within Designer, which allows the City to calculate the itemized and total cost of labor, materials, and equipment related to compatible units. Both the Electrical Engineering and Electrical Construction group utilize the application for streamlining operations including scheduling jobs and assigning crews.

The City intends to begin integration to Azteca’s Cityworks, a work management system employed by the rest of the departments within the organization, in the next few months.

“Miner & Miner is a professional organization whose project managers and product developers work to create an efficient and productive work process. Using the Designer application allows us to enjoy the full functionality of a design product while updating our processes,” said Jamie Martinez, GIS Manager for the City of Concord.

About Miner & Miner

Miner & Miner (M&M) is a world leader in the development and implementation of GIS software for utilities. M&M's ArcFM Solution and extended services assist electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities in increasing productivity, lowering costs, and improving services by allowing them to effectively manage spatial information. Founded in 1946 as a full-service electrical engineering firm, M&M has been a business partner of www.miner.com.

Advantica is dedicated to enabling the owners and operators of energy and utility assets, through use of advanced technologies and systems solutions, to more successfully plan, manage and leverage their assets to achieve their business vision. Advantica offers two families of asset integrity solutions, one focused on the through-life understanding of the condition of operating assets and one on the safety of operating assets. The company also offers two families of performance improvement solutions, one focused on ever-improving best planning and design, and one on operation of network assets. We satisfy the unique requirements of each client through the appropriate combination of professional services, including consultancy, and Stoner Software(tm) products.

Designer, Responder, Conduit Manager, and Network Adapter are trademarks of Miner & Miner, Consulting Engineers, Inc.