Rooted in AutoCAD and Map 3D, our newest product offers access to advanced 3D substation design technology in the familiar AutoCAD environment.
Substation Design Suite™ (SDS) Physical for AutoCAD is available in two platforms: AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor. Within AutoCAD, users can enjoy features such as simultaneous 2D and 3D design workflows, brownfield and geospatial workflows, integral real-time design validation, and more. Within Autodesk Inventor, users can enjoy features including ground grid, trench layout, conduit modeling, fitting placement tools, model cable, bus layout, lightning protection design, and much more.
“As we engaged with customers over the years, we felt it was important to address some of the utility industry’s most pressing data management and workforce development needs,” said Joey Baker, Director of Substation Solutions at SBS. “We’re excited to bring to market an application that truly provides a ‘BIM for everyone’ opportunity to the utility industry.”
The SDS Physical for AutoCAD application fosters connectivity with the utility’s suite of enterprise systems, GIS systems, and the wide array of various stakeholder applications.
“We’re proud that our SDS Physical for AutoCAD product is serving the industry in such a significant way,” said Baker. “It is enabling customers to accelerate their BIM-related initiatives while also significantly reducing the organizational change management barriers typically encountered in technology deployment programs.”
SDS Physical modules are sold separately. We also offer training and mentoring programs for the new product.
Intelligent infrastructure design works with GIS to model systems for better construction and improved asset management via the use of digital twins.
| Dennis Beck, President/CEO, Spatial Business Systems, Inc.
Introduction
Our earlier blogpost in August 2021 explained how digital twins can be used to more effectively manage critical, networked utility infrastructure. That post introduced the concepts of digital twins and the digital thread. This follow-on post focuses on a more specific example of underground conduit management and how a robust digital twin model can support the needs of design, construction, and asset management. Historically, the information generated during the design process has not been directly usable for related business applications such as GIS and inventory management. The advent of intelligent design solutions and their ability to create robust, re-usable digital twins provides a means to address the challenges of critical infrastructure data management.
Conduit Management: Challenges and Opportunities
Digital twins are often thought of as unique, distinct objects, and while that can be the case, they provide much greater value when working as groups of twins within connected systems. Electric and telecommunications conduit networks can be considered a system of digital twins. Management of these conduit networks can get quite complex and is and critical to support proper network operations. We believe this is a particularly important topic as management of underground networks in urban areas is becoming more challenging to model due to higher density and complexity in very tight, confined locations. These assets need to support electric distribution and telecommunications while coexisting with gas, water, district heating, and other networks. Though distinctly different, these networks are also linked via common construction operations. For example, joint trenches impact shared construction costs and other joint business workflows such as operations and maintenance.
Fortunately, advances in both GIS and CAD technologies are creating a convergence that provides a path for addressing these business challenges. In the field of GIS, the market leader Esri has introduced key data model elements and programming interfaces that support conduit management in their ArcGIS Utility Network product. This includes a capability referred to as non-spatial objects that can be configured to represent complexity of conduit networks (i.e., ducts’ location and relationships) while maintaining scalability of GIS and performance of the network analysis (I.e., capacity planning). Meanwhile, intelligent CAD solutions, such as Automated Utility Design™ (AUD) from SBS, can provide full support for design and editing of conduit networks in 3D. For example, a designer in AUD can select a duct feature in the 3D view and “move it” to a desired free port of a vault’s digital twin, eliminating the need for legacy types of 2D representations such as knockout features and draft schematic views in a digital twin design. Most of the required diagrams and schematics views can be auto generated from the digital twins in design and shared with other systems or printed on construction sheets (for paper-based workflows).
Also, designing in 3D is a critical capability for a correct engineering of conduit networks and constructability analysis. As an extension to AutoCAD, the AUD product creates a model-based design, which is based on unique digital twins that support not only the design and construction business processes but provide a foundation for downstream applications such as GIS and Enterprise Asset Management. The bi-directional integration of these technologies forms a basis for solving the conduit management problem.
Intelligent Design of Conduit Systems
Traditional design of networked utility infrastructure has typically involved rather simple 2D layouts, referencing conductors, conduits, and associated paths between equipment and consumers. While this has served the industry for many years, building a well-defined digital twin during the design phase ensures not only a properly engineered system but also provides a framework for related business needs. A sample model is shown in the figure below.
While this model may appear to be quite abstract, it forms a basis for shielding an engineer or CAD designer from having to understand the details of the underlying digital components that turn points, lines, and areas into intelligent features that represent networked infrastructure. This provides a very powerful tool that allows a designer to build a digital twin without having to understand the complexities of network asset modeling.
What the designer sees is something quite different. This abstract model can be portrayed as a 2D layout that supports typical construction drawings. These drawings contain the necessary information to enable the construction process, including trench widths, offsets, fill, and depths.
Another advantage of intelligent, model-based design is the ability to model the 3D elements of the design in the background while performing a 2D layout using standard CAD tools. This enables essential design and engineering capabilities, such as clearance checking, constructability, safety, and compliance with standards, reducing the risk of construction-related issues when the design moves to the field. Bill of materials can also be generated much more accurately as lengths can be properly calculated based on having a 3D representation of the conduit path. The addition of 3D, digital-twin based models also provides for the benefit of highly visual design checks. A 3D view of the design above is shown in the connecting diagram.
Here, another example is shown. In this case, the real-world model shows how the conductors pass through rotated vaults while including proper elevations and the necessary duct details.
GIS, CAD, and Conduit Management
While CAD-based intelligent design functions create models to support safe and effective construction of infrastructure assets, GIS plays a key role in data management, analysis, and lifecycle asset management of those same infrastructure assets. The design process often involves highly detailed representations of the planned infrastructure, usually over a fairly finite work location. On the other hand, the GIS manages a very large amount of assets, typically over a large geographic area. The same assets are represented in each system; however, their usage and purposes are distinctly different. For example, design typically requires highly accurate, real-world locations while conduit represented in GIS is often offset to ensure proper visualization on a two-dimensional map.
Examples of GIS-based conduit management activities include visualization of joint trenches, duct banks, and vaults and operations support for performing inspections and replacement activities. Planning and revenue related functions such as capacity planning, shared resource management, and replacement analysis are enabled by having well-defined conduit systems within the GIS. Similarly, fiber management functions for telecommunications rely on the GIS representations to manage visualization of fibers, cores, and cables and to provide a visual way of managing fiber splices.
What’s Next: Digital Twins and Next-Generation Networks
The business applications described above offer tremendous value for traditional utility and telecommunications assets. But the future of the electric grid is demanding a better way of managing advanced, dynamic networks. Distributed energy resources, the proliferation of sensors, advanced devices, and prosumers are driving the need to deliver advanced network models based on digital twins. It’s no longer practical to have large teams of manual data entry personnel editing different systems to support multiple network-based business applications.
Digital twins, based on intelligent design, integrated with GIS and other network-based systems provide the opportunity to enter data in one location and share it throughout the asset lifecycle without having to deal with redrawing, duplicate data entry, and the inevitable risks associated with out-of-date information.
If you have any questions, please contact SBS at [email protected]. We welcome the opportunity to share more details regarding the integration of intelligent design solutions and geographic information systems along with your digital twin and design integration requirements.
Substation Design Suite™ Protection & Control (SDS P&C) version 8.1 is now available. This new release includes over thirty product improvements designed to improve usability, electrical design efficiency, and quality.
SDS P&C extends the power of AutoCAD® Electrical to provide advanced electrical substation design capabilities necessary to fully layout and specify an electric substation. With the newest enhancements in version 8.1, you can now more efficiently produce quality substation protection and control designs. Here are six of our favorite updates:
Wild Card and Find/Replace Data Editor
Processes multiple instances of the same set of wild-carded “standard drawings” in an overall project drawing set.
Wiring Diagram Connection Count QA Check
Checks annotated wiring diagrams and creates a surfable list of terminal and device pin connections that have more than two wire connections on a single pin termination.
Cable Auto Fan-ins on Connection Wiring Diagrams
Does in one minute what might normally take hours or even days on intelligent terminal strip connection wiring diagrams.
Job/WO and Status Marking/Tracking/Reporting
Integrates job, work order, and status assignments into various reports and saves and restores client-specific sets of job and work order status names.
Ribbon User Interface
Makes several SDS-specific tools only a click away and adds some frequently used base AutoCAD Electrical tools.
Context -sensitive, comprehensive Help System
Covers new 8.1 capabilities.
If you’re interested in learning more about SDS P&C, please contact us at [email protected]. Click here to download the newest version.
Join Steve Kaufman of SBS to learn about exciting enhancements to SDS Physical for Inventor 8.0 such as support for multi conductors, ground leads to sloped planes, and Named User licensing.
Title: SDS Physical for Inventor 8.0 Release Webinar
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2021, 12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT
Details:
Webinar will be held on GoToWebinar
Access the content on the Spatial Business Systems YouTube channel after the event.
We had many memorable moments at this year’s virtual conference. We thank each of our presenters for sharing their experiences and expertise. We wouldn’t be able to make this happen without you!
We extend a special thank you to our customers at Southern California Edison, Energy Queensland, Hydro One, Central Hudson, and Atwell LLC for presenting. Their organizations have been actively involved in transforming their businesses through modernizing their design workflows.
The conference started with Dennis Beck, President of SBS, providing an update on the latest happenings at the company. Reflecting over the five years since SBS acquired Autodesk’s line of utility design solutions, Beck noted that there have been over 500 product enhancements with a strong commitment to continue the company’s R&D efforts in the areas of digital twin support and enablement of advanced applications such as BIM and digital construction. He also announced that starting in November 2021, SDS Physical for AutoCAD (formerly AUD for Substations) will be generally available.Just to recap some of the highlights of the conference:
· Insightful training workshops. SBS customers shared best practices in training their user community and helping them adapt to intelligent design solutions.
· A presentation on the ability of Automated Utility Design™ (AUD) to track usage information to support business analytics. Attendees learned how this data can be used to improve overall business performance, ranging from design efficiency improvements to leveraging BIM and advanced asset management.
· The growing presence of SBS engineering firm customers. Attendees were able to learn how design firms are using AUD to support the utility design and construction ecosystem and collaboratively work with their utility customers to improve design quality and workflows.
· An SBS project delivery update. SBS actively manages about 40 projects at any given time, and a few of these projects were highlighted. This also included an update on SBS delivery methodologies and the recent improvements that have been made to streamline implementation.
· The latest updates on what SBS is doing with GIS integration, particularly with regard to Esri’s Utility Network. Dennis Beck and Andy Street also presented the SpatialBiz FME Plug-in for ArcGIS Utility Network, which is a new, streamlined way to migrate and/or synchronize information with Utility Network.
· Emphasis on mobile integration as part of our intelligent design solution workflows. Serguei Sokolov’s mobile solutions update showed the new work SBS has been doing to support as-built workflows to ensure they can be incorporated into GIS and other systems in a timelier manner.
Select presentations are available online for viewing. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to view some of these sessions.
This summer (July 2021) I had the good fortune of being able to deliver a Spotlight presentation for the Esri User Conference. My goal of the presentation was to take some of the hype out of digital twins (Trust me, there is a lot of hype.) and also to introduce the important concept of the digital thread, which is often overlooked in our critical infrastructure community. The presentation was well-received, and it was referenced in the VentureBeat (www.venturebeat.com) online publication. This blogpost summarizes the presentation and provides some additional details based on questions we have received here at SBS.
What is a Digital Twin?
In its simplest form, the digital twin is a digital model of a real-world object. Each twin represents a unique occurrence somewhere in the real world with the necessary sophistication to support relationships between objects and other elements within the system, including dynamic, sensor-based information. By its very definition, the digital twin is a non-static representation. It can grow over time, becoming more and more data rich based on construction information, asset history, and sensor-based data inputs. It can be thought of as a data container that becomes filled with more and more valuable information over its lifecycle. It is like a lean gymnast who grows into a sumo wrestler.
While digital twins have been getting a lot of hype over the last many years, it’s important to realize that the critical infrastructure GIS community has already been creating some form of digital twins for many years. They were initially known as “simple features,” but the technology has advanced to incorporate network modeling, federated data sources, sensor-based data (including Lidar),and advanced, geo-enabled applications. What was originally a very simple modeling construct has become a quite sophisticated, mature ability to model real-world assets.
In working with digital twins, it is critical to have the ability to rely on information from many different systems and to have an architectural platform that ties all this information together. GIS is consistently recognized as that platform. In particular, the ArcGIS platform is very rich in its ability to manage and integrate with other geo-enabled systems, supporting these applications with 2D and 3D representations, spatial and non-spatial relationships, network modeling, and many other powerful modeling constructs.
How About the Digital Thread?
Now that we’ve defined the digital twin, let’s discuss the concept of the digital thread. Infrastructure design, build, and operation tends to follow a certain pattern: Initiate, Plan and Design, Schedule, Execute, Close, and Operate. Throughout this pattern, there are a number of business processes that typically happen throughout an asset’s life cycle. Here are some examples:
Material traceability
Engineering
Supply chain
Management and maintainability
Decommissioning
And more
That means an asset touches many different systems (CAD, GIS, engineering analysis tools, etc.), and that list of systems is not getting any smaller. The path that the asset or digital twin travels through these systems is what we refer to as the digital thread, which can begin at or before the inception of the asset all the way through its operation and decommissioning.
Challenges to Implementing Digital Twins and the Digital Thread
The digital thread and its associated digital twin have the potential to generate a tremendous amount of value in the design, construction, and operation of critical infrastructure, but historically, there have been a lot of challenges that have prevented us from implementing this vision. Here are some of the key issues:
There are a significant number of systems that need to be accessed, which adds extensive complexity to a properly implemented digital system. This is manifested in different ways, but one challenge we’ve seen over the years and decades is extensive data re-entry.
Looking more specifically at graphical information, organizations will design something initially in a CAD system and then they will then redraw it in a GIS to create a system of record. The redrawing doesn’t end there as a different graphic representation of the data may be required to support specialty applications such as network management systems. This extensive re-entry of complex, graphical information results in complex data duplication issues.
The actual engineering of the planned infrastructure systems tends to get short-changed due to the complexity of moving data between the designs and the specialized engineering tools necessary to perform a detailed engineering analysis. This creates suboptimal designs.
This limited automation and lack of detailed information can impact the material accuracy. As a result, the supply chain and materials management become reactive as opposed to proactive, which then impacts the success of the field construction. This is where it can get very costly for infrastructure owners and operators.
No matter how well you digitize all your designs and information going out to the field, if it’s printed out and put in a folder, that creates a big information gap with out of date records during construction and as-built documentation.
Ultimately, the casualties of this bad information flow tend to be those downstream applications that rely on very current information to perform advanced business functions that should be taking advantage of robust digital twins.
How to Overcome the Challenges
There are many things that can be done to make your digital twin and your digital thread implementations a reality in spite of the challenges identified above.
The first step is to think architecturally as you implement your information systems, keeping your end goals in mind.
Use an intelligent design system. Since the design process is where the asset information is created, it is important to use an intelligent design system to create the well-defined objects that form the digital twins. Some organizations take shortcuts during the design process via the use of simple drawings or even just sketches. Instead, a well-conceived approach to building intelligent models will enable geo-location, materials management, network topology, and the other elements necessary to build, operate, and maintain critical infrastructure.
Be spatially aware throughout the entire process. All critical infrastructure is dependent on location, and this has a significant impact throughout the asset lifecycle from construction through operations and decommissioning. Proper spatial enablement opens opportunities to incorporate less-commonly used datasets for soils, weather, vegetation, and other emerging sources of data that can be used to make advanced asset management decisions.
Don’t lose track of the data. A properly architected system will be structured in such a manner that data is not only retained but made available in a usable form to support lifecycle business applications, many of which have not yet been identified.
Keep security front and center. As we architect systems to make the data more and more available for advanced applications, we also have to realize that it has the potential to create vulnerabilities that can be exploited by bad actors.
The second step is to address the fact that there are many different personas that will be relying on the digital twins. Consider an electric pole: a designer needs to have detailed information about attachment heights, connections, angles, and more to determine the proper structural characteristics. A manufacturer needs the base material information, specifications, and usage conditions. A builder needs to know not only the detailed plans but also the detailed real-world location. That real-world location is not nearly as critical for the maintainer; instead, the maintainer needs to know how to access the asset and how to not violate any right of way concerns or environmental restrictions. Furthermore, the operator may not care where the pole is but must see the operational picture of the network environment. Finally, the asset manager needs to understand the financial profile, the reliability history, and all those events that contribute to aging and key decisions in optimizing the asset life cycle. Each of these different personas has unique needs that must be thoroughly considered.
The final step is to focus on the necessary data transformation to make information usable to different consumers. This is an area where SBS has been doing extensive work to support the business requirements of the different digital twin consumers and representations. The example below shows electric transmission system assets from conceptual to engineering to detailed design. All three representations reference the same system, but it has to be transformed for the different consumers.
Current Examples
This section shows some examples of our efforts at SBS in using digital twins and digital threads to solve infrastructure management challenges. We refer you to our Esri User Conference Spotlight presentation for more details. In the presentation, you will see the following:
Design integration with CAD and GIS
As-built integration with CAD, mobile computing, and GIS
Integration of 3D intelligent design models with operational digital twins in an electric substation
Conclusion
Digital twins are a very powerful construct, but to take advantage of them requires a change in how we think about managing infrastructure information. Part of that thinking needs to flow into the digital thread, which expands the digital twins to be part of an integrated asset life cycle.
A well-conceived, geo-enabled architecture generates very significant benefits. The design process becomes much more efficient when using intelligent models to build twins. Data re-entry is reduced quite extensively, which can provide more current information to support advanced applications. This opens the door to other exciting things such as optimization of asset performance and the ability to generate analyses that we haven’t been able to do before.
If you have any questions, please contact SBS at [email protected]. We are happy to help you with your digital twin and design integration requirements for critical, networked infrastructure.
We are excited to invite you to join our worldwide AUD user community at this year’s virtual PUG Conference. We are busy working on preparations and are looking forward to another great conference.
Since its inception, the Peer Utility Group (PUG) continues to serve as an industry technical resource center with the intent of finding solutions to common problems through the assistance of forums, webinars, staff support, and an annual conference.
This year’s all virtual conference allows us to join with our worldwide Automated Utility Design™ (AUD) user community to collaborate and learn about the latest technology and industry updates Here is a sampling of this year’s conference offerings:
· Discussions on training
· Customer presentations offered by four different utilities
· Announcements of product updates and enhancements
· Panel of utilities discussing AUD implementation and training benefits
Our virtual conference is available to all PUG members as well as existing and prospective AUD customers. Others are welcome to attend by invitation. Please reach out to [email protected] for further information.
The sessions will also be recorded and made available for viewing after the conference.
SBS Automated Utility Design™ (AUD) supports product-level integration with the SPIDA Software SPIDAcalc product. The integration provides a highly functional, straightforward way to validate AUD designs within SPIDAcalc. The integration is enabled via the analysis module of SBS Utility DataHub™. While workflows at different utilities may vary, the process typically goes as follows:
First, within AUD, a designer lays out pole locations, future services, transformers, and other key elements of the design project.
Second, once the design is laid out in AUD, it is sent to SPIDAcalc for verification. SPIDAcalc then verifies that the framing is valid. As SPIDAcalc analyzes the build, features will change colors (green for pass, red for fail).
Third, after analysis is performed, the build is exported back to AUD where it can be accessed via the Project Viewer.
Features that have passed validation within SPIDAcalc are displayed in AUD. Features that failed validation will display a warning. Once the failed feature has been selected, the attributes (specific to SPIDAcalc) appear on the dashboard.
Within this window, users can see all the poles available from SPIDAcalc in AUD and all the results from different components such as guys, insulators, and the pole itself. Users can also see the overall status (pass or fail).
Users of SBS Utility DataHub™ SPIDAcalc integration with AUD are able to ensure that they can perform the advanced analysis available within SPIDAcalc while taking advantage of the user-friendly AutoCAD-based interface of Automated Utility Design™.
New FME Plug-in provides a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) tool for ArcGIS Utility Network migration and synchronization.
July 12, 2021
SBS is pleased to announce our latest FME plug-in, the SpatialBiz Plug-in for ArcGIS Utility Network. We have leveraged our decades of experience with the Safe Software FME product, along with the extensive experience we have with ArcGIS Utility Network and networked GIS technologies, to create a specialized product offering for the migration and synchronization of ArcGIS Utility Network data.
You may ask, why do we need this? There are a variety of tools already available from Safe Software, Esri, and several other quality organizations in our industry. The answer is simple: We believe that a lot more can be done to automate Utility Network data integration into enterprise environments. While we are excited about what we have developed, we believe it is just the beginning of what can be done to integrate networked infrastructure information into mainstream as well as specialty information systems. The intention of this post is to explain the challenges our industry has had in Utility Network migration and the approach we have taken to mitigate these issues.
Without getting into the technical weeds, we believe there are three main issues that need to be solved:
Reduction in migration complexity.
Support for Utility Network synchronization and interoperability.
Need for a productized, user supportable solution.
Reduction in Migration Complexity
To date, Utility Network migrations have involved a lot of discovery, sometimes by trial and error, regarding the best approaches that need to be taken to create useful network data. Many challenges have been identified in areas such as how to approach network modeling how to deal with incomplete network data, and how to ensure that the migrations ultimately address business needs while ensuring the fundamental requirements of data quality and system scalability. The projects have been complex and costly, which is not unexpected when adopting new technologies. Now that Utility Network is being more widely deployed, there is a great opportunity to capitalize on the lessons learned.
SBS has chosen to build a highly automated tool on the Safe Software FME platform to address these issues of complexity. FME has a practical, easy-to-use interface, and thousands of people are trained in how to use the system every year. This moves the task of migration away from programmers and deep technical experts over to talented, geospatially literate technical professionals. We have created the following plug-in features to streamline the complexity:
Support for ArcGIS Utility Network connectivity, attachment, and containment associations.
Access to system table data including diagram junction layers, container layers, rules, subnetworks, and domains.
Continued focus on automating and removing complexity throughout the workflow.
Built in support for ArcPro Templates that can be created directly from FME.
Support for Utility Network Synchronization and Interoperability
SBS staff have been involved with geospatial system migration for over thirty years. During that time, we have learned that organizations adapt to new systems much more effectively when they can do a gradual transition rather than a “big bang.” The ability to synchronize data between the existing and target system becomes a critical factor to support this kind of risk-managed transition. Key to this is the ability to support difference management between systems and incremental updates. The following innovative features enable this in the ArcGIS Utility Network plug-in:
Global ID support. A Global ID registry is leveraged to record source to Utility Network mappings, ensuring consistent identification of feature keys to support synchronization transactions.
Incremental and point-in-time extraction.
Where clause support.
Transactional tolerance to ensure successful job completion. In this mode, transactions are validated and adjusted to prevent potential rejection.
Advanced ordering logic to ensure that feature creation conforms to Utility Network rules and constraints, leading to high-integrity network builds with reduced Dirty Area cleanup.
SBS has also included the fundamental building blocks to support two-way synchronization. While we have seen limited need for this level of interoperability, we welcome the opportunity to explore these use cases with interested clients.
A Productized, User Supportable Solution
One of the most important business requirements is having a fully supported, product-level solution that will continue to be maintained and enhanced. Many of the tools in our community have been ad hoc, project-oriented developments that evolve from project to project; they change as more is learned about Utility Network migration, and often the knowledge is dependent on the knowledge of the delivery personnel. Esri is also heavily involved in improving the base capabilities of Utility Network, which requires ongoing enhancements to the migration tools. SBS has been providing productized FME plug-ins for over fifteen years; it is a core competency for our organization.
We hope we have piqued your interest in this exciting new product from SBS. Please reach out to us to discuss your needs related to Utility Network migration.
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About SBS
SBS provides software and service solutions that help infrastructure owners and engineering firms maximize their investment in CAD, GIS, and other information systems.
The company has helped over 300 utility, telecommunications, and government entities streamline their business processes and reduce costs through their innovative offerings. With offices in Denver, Colorado and Melbourne, Australia, SBS provides world-class products, expert-level consulting skills, and extensive experience in working with integrated design solutions and the unique engineering aspects of modeling networked infrastructure environments.
See the latest in advanced, geo-enabled solutions for utilities and telecommunications at the Esri User Conference July 12–15, 2021. Register now to get a front-row seat.
SBS will be highlighting our intelligent design solutions integrated with ArcGIS and Utility Network along with some other exciting new developments at the world’s largest geospatial conference. After registering, search for us on the Expo Page to find our Virtual Booth. There will be a tremendous amount of additional technical workshops and sessions, an opportunity to explore GIS-powered products and services at the Expo, and time to virtually collaborate with peers.
On Tuesday, July 13, at 11:15 AM PST, join a SPOTLIGHT Session with Dennis Beck, CEO of SBS, as he presents how digital twins and digital threads help manage critical infrastructure with the power of the ArcGIS platform and geo-enabled, CAD-based design.
Tune in to the Lightning Talk with Jack Hopson on Wednesday, July 14, at 11:15 AM PST to learn how Automated Utility Design™ (AUD) works with ArcGIS Field Maps to demonstrate an integrated workflow from design to as-built to GIS system of record.
