Asset management system ties it together

To deliver increasing expectations for supply quality and cost reduction, information technology has become an essential component of transmission and distribution networks. The integration of the system into a corporate IT infrastructure requires delicate management along with a willingness to dismantle some old taboos. Scottish Power is a UK multi-utility operation in the electricity, gas, water and telecommunications sectors. In 1994, the company completed a strategic study to determine the organization and business systems that would successfully carry the company into the new millennium. A major initiative from this study was the development of a business change program branded AM2000, which has become successful through implementing new processes and integrated IT systems across the power systems business.