Grayson-Collin Electric Cooperative (Van Alstyne, Texas, U.S.) has recently purchased Powel MiniMax’s StakeOut to manage and control its work-order process.

“We are growing at 10% to 12% per year. I knew we could not continue working with the processes we've used for the past 20 plus years,” said Bruce Stevens, manager of Maintenance and Operations for Grayson-Collin Electric. “We would need to add six more staff people to handle the workload if we were to continue with our current paper-based workflow.”

“We are looking forward to fully automating our work order process that hasn't really changed since the 1950s. We are still filling out forms by hand and faxing them to Tech Law (Grayson-Collin's single-source material provider),” continued Stevens. “Our engineers will design directly on their system maps, and StakeOut will electronically share material forecasts with Tech Law. That will save time and have a direct impact on our inventory returns.”

Utilities use StakeOut software to efficiently manage and streamline their entire work-order process. StakeOut automates the entire utility work-order process, from field design to work-order tracking to close-out. StakeOut's enhanced mobile editing functions allow users to take their entire GeoDatabase into the field for design, maintenance and construction.

Source; Transmission and Distribution World, February 2005