PBE introduces ESRI-based ArcFM UT from AED-SICAD

23 September 2008, 9:11am

Sept. 23, 2008 - PBE („De Provinciale Brabantse Energiemaatschappij - La Provinciale Brabançonne d'Energie“) is the supplier for electricity and cable TV and this for a large number of municipalities around Leuven in the western and eastern part of the provinces of “Vlaams-Brabant” and “Brabant Walloon” of Belgium. In total, 20 municipalities from the Flemish and 4 from the Walloon region belong to the distribution area of PBE. Due to the limitations of the current CAD-based documentation system with mostly manual processes, PBE was looking for a GIS and database-driven system, allowing among others also the generation of other plan types (e.g. overview plans) from the as-built plan. PBE selected in August 2008 AED-SICAD’s ArcFM UT product suite for the documentation and analysis of utility networks. AED-SICAD business partner ESRI BeLux will implement the solution under participation of AED-SICAD. Mr. Herman Remmerie, PBE general manager, explains that “PBE saw that the team of AED-SICAD and ESRI BeLux best understood our business processes and what we were really looking for. Besides the price, this was a very important criterion for our selection”.

About PBE

The core activities of the PBE are the management of the electric distribution network for the 24 member municipalities and the provision of cable- and digital television in 14 municipalities in Belgium. The company operates an electricity grid with over 90,000 connections and a cable network with more than 55,000 customers.

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