It's not easy being a network design engineer. You are doing more designs per year than ever before. You spend most of your time trying to get data from one system to another or, even worse, looking for the most up-to-date version of critical information. You've got a few good tools, but they don't fit together well. You're struggling with a bunch of systems that all work differently, and your boss is complaining that the designs are not accurate enough or fast enough, and that construction crew use is not being optimized. Frustrated? Try something different.

GE Smallworld Design Manager is a powerful management tool that provides end-to-end support for network design. Built to provide an integrated approach to engineering design, this product provides the platform to pull together all design-relevant information. GE Smallworld Design Manager works with any utility network and can be configured to work with several at once. By using tried-and trusted-GE Smallworld technology, Design Manager allows the design department to make the most of your company's spatial data. The advantages of a fully integrated design process include:

Cost reduction by fully integrating the management of design jobs. Design Manager provides cost reductions in both design and build phases and improves efficiency through better process support.

Reduction in operational errors by supporting downstream operations through the use of a single data repository. Design Manager reduces operational errors by significantly shortening the time required to integrate newly engineered and energized network with as-built.

Enterprise access to design information by leveraging GE Smallworld technology. For example, the GE Smallworld Internet Server in conjunction with Design Manager can support business-to-business e-commerce between a utility company and its contractors.

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