News & Events

Manufacturers 3D models continue to grow with the addition of content from Southern States and Reliaguard. June 14, 2019 SBS announced during the Substation Design Solution Industry Consortium (SDSIC) 2019 Spring Meeting that Southern States and Reliaguard will be adding...

6th Annual PUG Conference hosted by Puget Sound Energy We are excited to announce this year’s conference will be held August 27th – 29th, 2019 and will be hosted by Puget Sound Energy, Bellevue, Washington. We are busy planning all...

Join SBS at the 2019 Milsoft User’s Conference, June 11-13. The event will be held at the Omni Orlando Resource at Championsgate in Orlando Florida. Meet the SBS team, at booth 34, and see how SBS distribution design and integration...

New Version Improves Performance, Adds Smart Trace and Supports Esri Utility Network Model   Automated Utility Design™ Version 8.0 (AUD) is now available!  AUD 8.0 is the biggest release to–date from SBS and adds several significant enhancements to the product.  Most notable  are the extended capabilities to support integration...

Substation Design Suite™ 7.4 brings new features and bug fixes for improved functionality. New Features SDS — Physical features: SDS will now alert you to using read-only files. When selecting cylindrical surfaces for Round Bus, it will obey bus offsets....

Premier Utility Design Tool Supports Esri’s Utility Network Model SBS has delivered a steady stream of enhancements to Automated Utility Design™ (AUD) since we first released the product back in 2016. We are quite excited to announce the trend will...

Based on Customer feedback at the 2018 Peer Utility Group (PUG) conference, SBS has released an update to Utility DataHub™ Design – GIS module. UDH Design – GIS module provides bi-directional data integration between GIS systems and Automated Utility Design™...

Latest SBS Release Offers New Advancements in Underground Utility Design With the recent release of Automated Utility Design™ 7.3 (AUD), SBS continues to push the envelope for modeling and designing distribution utility assets. This post will bring you up to...

New in SDS 7.3 The SDS Model Editor and SD Model Cloud will now be replaced with the new Utility Content Hub™ (UCH). UCH gives you direct access to utilitycontent.com without ever having to leave Autodesk Inventor. UCH also has...

Utility Content for Substation Design Suite LAKEWOOD, CO —SBS announces the release of Utility Content for Substation Design Suite™ (SDS). The announcement was made at the Substation Design Solution Industry Consortium (SDSIC) Spring meeting in Alexandria, LA. This follows the...

August 29, 2018 – Managing Total Cost of Ownership for Utility Design Software Dennis Beck, David Wilbur, SBS  We have recently released the latest version of our Automated Utility Design™ product and are quite excited about the continued progression the product...

Packaged Solution for Utility Workflow Integration goes from Walk to Run Dennis Beck, President, SBS This summer marks the 5 year anniversary of our packaged integration product, Utility DataHub™.  Our original goals for this innovative product were to: Create a...

Perspectives on the Recent Autodesk – Esri Announcement Dennis Beck, President, SBS I recently attended Autodesk University, where I witnessed an on-stage discussion between Jack Dangermond, President of ESRI, and Andrew Anagnost, President of Autodesk.  Jack described the two companies...

Congratulations to the Substation Design Solution Industry Consortium for hitting the 500 active member milestone!  It started 5 years ago with some key partners and a few great customers and it has turned into the leading gathering for substation design...

SBS is pleased to announce the commercial release of Automated Utility Design™ 7.2 SBS has released the latest version of our industry leading electric, gas and water distribution design tool – Automated Utility Design™ (AUD).  Enhancements were implemented based on...

Intelligent integration reduces design time by over 50% Intuitively, it makes sense that integration of utility distribution design with other information systems like GIS, financials and materials management would be a smart thing to do.  A recent presentation at the...

PPL Electric Utilities will be hosting the Spring meeting of the Substation Design Solution Industry Consortium (SDSIC) April 9 – 12 at the PPL Conference Center at Walbert, near Allentown, PA.  The SDSIC is a group of utilities, consulting engineers...

SBS will be at the DistribuTECH 2018 Utility Conference & Exhibition this year in San Antonio.  Please join us at the Autodesk booth, #1471, where we will be showing the latest in integrated design solutions for utilities.  On display will...

Experiences Using Semi-Agile Delivery for AUD Implementation Our recent Peer Utility Group (PUG) meeting, hosted by Puget Sound Energy in Bellevue, Washington, was a great opportunity to learn what leading utilities are doing to integrate Automated Utility Design™ (AUD) with...

Spatial Business Systems (SBS) and Burns & McDonnell are partnering to elevate the successful execution of 2D to 3D transitions of our clients. SBS will continue to deliver world class utility solutions while Burns & McDonnell will provide utility-specific project...