NRECA is the national service organization for more than 900 not-for-profit rural electric cooperatives and public power districts. It provides retail electric service to more than 42 million consumers in 47 states and retail sales account for approximately 12 percent of total electricity sales in the United States. TechAdvantage – a flagship event organized annually by NRECA…
Medicine Hat, a city of 61,000+ in southeast Alberta, Canada, became the first Canadian utility to select SMART as its preferred platform for all its substation, distribution, and metering inspection work. They were impressed with the demo and the performance of SMART at the 2015 Southeastern Electricity Metering Association Conference in November in Orlando.
A Focused Approach to Preventive Maintenance (pp-34; Nov. 2015) Northern Neck Electric Cooperative Gets Smart Unifying its Substation, Line, and Pole Inspections { The following paragraphs are excerpted from the 5-page narration of NNEC’s process of evaluation, selection, and deployment of SMARTest for their substation and distribution inspections and more ….} ——- At the North…
Within a span of 2 months, SMART was selected again by another large municipal utility in North Carolina with 20+ substations to replace their aging legacy system. SMART was selected by its engineering and operations management team to be their future tool for performing asset management, inspection, and maintenance of all their substation and distribution…
MinMax continues to enhance its SMART family of programs based on the participation and feedback received from its SUPER users. One of the key highlights of the latest release is the capability to take and store multiple pictures instantly at any inspection question. The pictures can be retrieved and viewed wherever the questions are displayed.…
SMART proved itself right again in the Show Me state of Missouri. This time it’s with the City of Carthage where Carthage Water & Electric Plant selected SMART to perform all its substation and distribution asset management, inspections, and inventory control. After receiving a brief on-site training, the team at CWEP is enthused about the possibilities of using…
A large municipal utility from the state of North Carolina signed up to use the SMARTest from MinMax as its substation inspection and asset management tool for its inspectors and supervisors replacing their 9-year old legacy system. After an extensive pilot study of SMARTest, the substation management decided to adopt SMARTest as its inspection tool…
Beginning July 1, 2015, MinMax has kicked off its new ad campaign introducing its premier line of substation & distribution inspection and asset management line of products called SMART, SMARTer, and SMARTest. This ad will appear in the various directories and magazines published by different regional utility associations.
MinMax participated and demonstrated its newly launched SMART 6.0 to an enthusiastic group of NCAMES attendees on April 22, 2015 in Wilson, North Carolina. The North Carolina Association of Municipal Electric Systems is a non-profit association and an affiliate of the NC League of Municipalities. NCAMES exists to promote the interest and welfare of municipal…
MinMax introduces the latest release (ver. 6.2) of its SMART family of programs to an enthusiastic group of utility substation and distribution supervisors at APPA’s Engineering and Operations Technical Conference held in Sacramento, California, on May 17-20, 2015.