GE Energy

ViryaNet G4 (re-branded as Field Force Automation by GE) earned its ecomagination^SM status by delivering performance improvements in 3 areas:

• Significant reduction of service crew times
  • A utility with 27 crews reduced traveling time by 69% which would project to reduce CO2 emissions for 1,000 field crews by 2,700 metric tons annually.
• Automatic balancing of multiple objectives (e.g., crew times, workload balance and preference for high-priority work orders)
  • A utility with 120 crews was able to further reduce traveling times by 17% versus previous mobile workforce management solutions.
• Saving paper waste by utilizing electronic communications
  • A utility with 200 crews reduced paper consumption by 70%.

Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, US, GE Energy is a leading supplier of power generation and energy delivery technologies. Comprised of GE Power & Water, GE Energy Management, and GE Oil & Gas, GE Energy's business units work together to provide integrated products, services, and solutions in all areas of the energy industry.

The Transmission & Distribution business of GE Energy provides software and services to infrastructure companies, such as utilities, telecommunication companies, local and federal authorities, and others. This software - the Smallworld™ Geospatial Asset Management Suite - and the related services provide complete end-to-end management solutions and include ViryaNet G4 under the Field Force Automation (FFA) brand to address field service management.

FFA is integrated with other GE Energy solutions for geospatial information management, outage management, asset management and distribution management, and provides a certified integration with the ERP solution from SAP.

ViryaNet and GE Energy Transmission and Distribution co-developed a forecasting and planning module that GE Energy takes to the utilities and telecommunications market.

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