ArcFM UT Product Suite: ArcFM UT V9.3.1 is out!

23 December 2009, 2:26pm

The following products of the ArcFM UT product suite have been released for sales, based on the ESRI ArcGIS V9.3.1 platform and on ArcFM UT Build 835:

* ArcFM UT Editor V9.3.1
* ArcFM UT Viewer V9.3.1
* ArcFM UT BASE V9.3.1
* ArcFM UT Mobile V9.3.1
* ArcFM UT Asset Manager V9.3.1

The AED-SICAD product suite for the supply industry ArcFM™ UT combines profound process and industry know-how with the strengths of world's leading GIS base technology from ESRI . This combination has opened up new perspectives in standardization, handling and interoperability for professional users. With ArcFM ™ UT, utility companies have a versatile, highly scalable and powerful product suite for their asset and network data in terms of high-end editing and analyzing, viewing, mobile & web use and integration.

What’s new

AED-SICAD has been working for some time now on replacing the Java-based attribute handling functionality with a new .NET based version. The result can be seen already in the current version of the Smart Desktop product family, which uses .NET only. The stand alone Attribute Editor (ArcFM UT Alpha) has already been completely replaced by the ArcFM UT Asset Manager.

Optimized Data Model

Up to now ArcFM UT had a strongly hierarchical data model. The UT data model has been optimized in a way that all asset related information is consolidated in asset tables, whereas other administrative information is concentrated in a central repository table (UT_Object).

ArcFM UT provides several new Quick Tasks in the ArcFM UT Schema Tool that automate the migration of customer schema and data (they also perform consistency checks).

New Setup

A new layout of the installation offers a clearer organization of the selection of the components which can be installed. The following components are offered: Full Desktop (Viewer, Editor and demo data), Smart Desktop (Asset Manager, Mobile Client), Tools (Data Quality Manager) and Server (Mobile Server).

ArcFM UT Smart Desktop

ArcFM UT Smart Desktop is the new family of ArcGISEngine-based applications. Currently these are ArcFM UT Mobile and ArcFM UT Asset Manager.

The Smart Desktop applications have some features and functions in common, therefore the following innovations are in both products:

* The scale and the map section are stored when closing the application. Thus the user sees the map display in the same order as he left it when login in again.
* With the preference editor or the preference file the user interface can be adapted to the specific company and user demands in various way (e.g.: colored marking, display the UT object with double-click on the entry in the object list, ...)
* The attributes of UT objects are shown in a new property dialog.
* The user interface is clearer and more flexible (e.g. Window docking technology).
* The attribute list (smart grid) of the attribute data form is redesigned for a comfortable overview. Mandatory fields are marked by a background color and by the font style "bold".
* Selected objects are more remarkably marked. They flash in a defined color on mouse move-over event.
* Graphic elements can be selected by drawing a polygon in the map.
* Now attribute data can be exported into Excel-formatted files.
* Maintenance functionality is grouped in a toolbar. This is an cross-over functionality of the product components ArcFM UT Mobile Viewer, ArcFM UT Asset Manager and ArcFM UT Desktop.

ArcFM UT Mobile

* Due to the fusion of the two products UT Asset Manager and UT Mobile Viewer in the Smart Desktop Product Line, the user interface of the UT Mobile Viewer was designed substantially more user friendly. For example the object list is placed in a dockable window as in the Asset Manager.
* You find the new features above in the section "Smart Desktop".
* Starting from release V9.3.1 a 2-way-replication for maintenance data is supported. Maintenance orders can be updated in the central database via ArcFM UT Desktop or ArcFM UT Asset Manager.

ArcFM UT Asset Manager

* You find the new features above in section "Smart Desktop".
* The toolbar "Maintenance and Inspection" contains the same functionality as the Desktop application. It helps to manage the maintenance/work orders, to supply the data to the replication server and transfer the changed data of the Mobile Client to the central database.

ArcFM UT Data Quality Manager

* The release contains a sentence of basis rules. Beyond that customized rules can be provided with the assistance of a framework. Thus the quality and integrity of issue-related and geospatial customer data can be guaranteed.

Maintenance and Inspection

* The function group "Maintenance and Inspection" – as Interworking functionality – in the product components ArcFM UT Desktop, ArcFM UT Asset Manager and ArcFM UT Mobile Viewer is now optimally equipped for the mobile employment.

UT Reporting

* The reporting functionality supports the export of database queries in files with Excel or CSV format. In this way it offers the possibility of preparing or further of processing the data for different purposes.

UT Planning

* The tool "UT Planning" is redesigned and can now discern and manage main planning and partial planning. In addition it now has a powerful version management.

Generalization

* Up to now, always a complete generalization was executed in ArcFM UT. In this release functions are made available, with which intermediate results - the so-called route network - can be extracted and displayed.

Cable Conduit System

The target of the partial redesign of this topic was the clear improvement of performance in the function 'Split Cable Conduit System'.

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