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Material and labor expenditures for new developments and capital improvements represent significant costs for the typical utility. Most utilities have implemented standards-based practices for designing new projects in order to ensure the reliable service delivery and sufficient capacity for growth in electrical demand. Unfortunately, the same standards designed to ensure quality often result in engineers and designers significantly over-building the electric distribution system.

ASI provides a variety of facility design services to help utilities optimize or "right size" engineering designs, thus realizing significant cost benefit. In fact, our design optimization services can help utilities increase capacity by 10-20%, and reduce capital and operations and maintenance costs by similar amounts. These material and labor savings coupled with other process resource savings can amount to multi-million dollar cost savings in a typical software and service implementation.

ASI design optimization software that allows engineers and designers to analyze new engineering plans and identify right-sized equipment. These design optimization tools help determine the least-cost routes and materials for new construction and help ensure compliance with engineering standards and regulatory codes.

In addition, design optimization software can be integrated with CAD, GIS work management, materials management and compliance reporting systems to ensure seamless management of work requests, material reconciliation, posting and compliance reporting. For example, integrating design optimization software into a work process allows the designer to easily consider alternate design scenarios, perform structure and load analysis and eliminate redundant data entry.