Automated CAD & GIS Integration for Better Asset Data Management By Andrew Bashfield, Principal Consultant, Stratelead

1. Automated CAD & GIS Integration
for Better Asset Data Management

2. Workshop Agenda:
 Welcome & Case Study: Ergon Energy,
Queensland
– Andrew Bashfield, Stratelead
 A Range of CAD/GIS Integration Scenarios
– Mike Schlosser, Autodesk
 Integrating CAD and GIS with Spatial ETL
– Don Murray, Safe Software
 Case Study: Integrating CADD & GIS in a
Municipal Environment
– Martin Tilt, City of Vancouver

3. Workshop Agenda:
 Round Table Discussion:
– Outage management
– Site & Asset Inspection
– Maintenance request or work order
– CAD-GIS synchronisation
– CAD-GIS model synchronisation
– Third party data editing and data distribution
 Morning Tea Break (10:25 am)

4. Workshop Agenda:
 CAD-GIS: Using Oracle for Integration
– Mark Millman, Mizar
 The Digital City / Vancouver Pilot
– Dan Campbell, City of Vancouver
 CAD-GIS Integration: The Bentley
Perspective
– Dave Shearon, Bentley Systems
 CAD-GIS Integration Approaches with
ARCGIS - Chris North, ESRI Canada
 Wrap Up (12:00 noon)

5. Case Study: CAD-GIS Integration at
Ergon Energy, Queensland

6. Where is Queensland?
QUEENSLAND

7. Comparison
944,735 sq km
1.730,648 sq km
British Columbia and Queensland

8. Ergon
Energy’s
Coverage

9. Coverage and Customers
 Servicing an area over 1 million
square kilometres, with over
3,000 employees, assets worth
over $3.4 billion, and
powerlines stretching
140,000km.
 Supplying electricity to over
480,000 residential customers
and almost 100,000 industrial
and commercial customers.

10. Risk Management
 The assets, including 150,000km of
powerlines, one million power poles and
33 remote generating stations, are in some
of Australia's most remote and inaccessible
locations.

11. Risk Management
 Cyclones, floods, severe storms, lightning
and bushfires can adversely affect the vast
network and interrupt the power supply.

12. Cyclone Larry – March 2006

13. Cyclone Larry – March 2006

14. Asset Design Background
 Standard process for network design
throughout
 Standard format
 Standard data sets
 Standard compatible units
 Common workflow & approvals
 All designers were connected to Ergon’s Network

15. GIS System
 Citrix version of Smallworld 3.3
– Highly customised interface (continues to be
updated)
– Highly customised design manager
– Smallworld FME to allow for export of data.

16. What Changed?
 Increase in workload
– Population Growth
– Industry Growth
– Consumer demand growth
 Contestability in construction
– Full Retail Contestability (FRC)
– Time delays to subdivisions were unacceptable
 Aging workforce

17. How Did That Change the Business?
 Introduction of external designers
– Design uses Ergon’s standard materials
– Are accredited by Ergon
– Design must by approved by Ergon
– Work for Ergon
– Have visibility of all of Ergon’s data
 Introduction of contestable designers
– Design uses Ergon’s standard materials
– Are accredited by Ergon
– Design must be approved by Ergon
– Work for the Subdivider
– Have limited visibility of Ergon’s data

18. Possible CAD GIS Solutions
 Design Specification for a Structured
Format
 FME for translation
 Spatial Object Modeler
 Supply a GIS Seat to the Designer
 Rules Based CAD Environment

19. Requirements for Tool
 Minimal impact on the designer
– AutoCAD was used by all external designers
– All but 1 are running 2007 or greater
– Some designers had developed custom tools already
 Final design must match a Smallworld design
– Same data
– Symbology
– Construction drawing
 End to end design time must be similar
– We don’t want to go backwards

20. The CAD Design tool – System
Design
36%

21. THANKS!
Andrew Bashfield, Principal Consultant, Stratelead
andrew.bashfield@stratelead.com.au

22. Andrew Bashfield –
Principal Consultant
andrew.bashfield@stratelead.com.au
www.linkedin.com/in/andrewbashfield

23. Automated CAD & GIS Integration
for Better Asset Data Management