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Latest SBS Release Offers New Advancements in Underground Utility Design With the recent release of Automated Utility Design™ 7.3 (AUD), SBS continues to push the envelope for modeling and designing distribution utility assets. This post will bring you up to...

New in SDS 7.3 The SDS Model Editor and SD Model Cloud will now be replaced with the new Utility Content Hub™ (UCH). UCH gives you direct access to utilitycontent.com without ever having to leave Autodesk Inventor. UCH also has...

Utility Content for Substation Design Suite LAKEWOOD, CO —SBS announces the release of Utility Content for Substation Design Suite™ (SDS). The announcement was made at the Substation Design Solution Industry Consortium (SDSIC) Spring meeting in Alexandria, LA. This follows the...

August 29, 2018 – Managing Total Cost of Ownership for Utility Design Software Dennis Beck, David Wilbur, SBS  We have recently released the latest version of our Automated Utility Design™ product and are quite excited about the continued progression the product...

Packaged Solution for Utility Workflow Integration goes from Walk to Run Dennis Beck, President, SBS This summer marks the 5 year anniversary of our packaged integration product, Utility DataHub™.  Our original goals for this innovative product were to: Create a...

Perspectives on the Recent Autodesk – Esri Announcement Dennis Beck, President, SBS I recently attended Autodesk University, where I witnessed an on-stage discussion between Jack Dangermond, President of ESRI, and Andrew Anagnost, President of Autodesk.  Jack described the two companies...

Congratulations to the Substation Design Solution Industry Consortium for hitting the 500 active member milestone!  It started 5 years ago with some key partners and a few great customers and it has turned into the leading gathering for substation design...

SBS is pleased to announce the commercial release of Automated Utility Design™ 7.2 SBS has released the latest version of our industry leading electric, gas and water distribution design tool – Automated Utility Design™ (AUD).  Enhancements were implemented based on...

Intelligent integration reduces design time by over 50% Intuitively, it makes sense that integration of utility distribution design with other information systems like GIS, financials and materials management would be a smart thing to do.  A recent presentation at the...

PPL Electric Utilities will be hosting the Spring meeting of the Substation Design Solution Industry Consortium (SDSIC) April 9 – 12 at the PPL Conference Center at Walbert, near Allentown, PA.  The SDSIC is a group of utilities, consulting engineers...

SBS will be at the DistribuTECH 2018 Utility Conference & Exhibition this year in San Antonio.  Please join us at the Autodesk booth, #1471, where we will be showing the latest in integrated design solutions for utilities.  On display will...

Experiences Using Semi-Agile Delivery for AUD Implementation Our recent Peer Utility Group (PUG) meeting, hosted by Puget Sound Energy in Bellevue, Washington, was a great opportunity to learn what leading utilities are doing to integrate Automated Utility Design™ (AUD) with...

Spatial Business Systems (SBS) and Burns & McDonnell are partnering to elevate the successful execution of 2D to 3D transitions of our clients. SBS will continue to deliver world class utility solutions while Burns & McDonnell will provide utility-specific project...

Automated Utility Design™ and Substation Design Suite™ now provide support for Autodesk Vault as a data management repository. October 10, 2017 San Diego, CA – Spatial Business Systems (SBS) announced at the Substation Consortium, held at San Diego Gas &...

International Data Corporation (IDC) published a study several years ago which detailed a link between the amount of training provided to the end user and the impression of product success....

Utility DataHub™ (UDH) from SBS supports the integration of Work and Asset Management systems in typical distribution utility workflows.  The emphasis here will be on the design process and integration back to geographic information systems (GIS)....

Spatial Business Systems (SBS) announces the release of Automated Utility Design™ (AUD) 7.1 available 1 June 2017. AUD 7.1 is a plug-in available for both the AutoCAD Map 3D 2017 and AutoCAD Map 3D 2018 platforms. AUD now has a...

Enhanced module for Utility DataHub™ adds several new features Spatial Business Systems (SBS), SPIDA®Software (SPIDA) and Nashville Electric Service (NES) have recently completed a teaming effort to enhance the Automated Utility Design™ (AUD) SPIDA®Calc interface. By working collaboratively with NES,...

Challenges in Substation Design CAD Work Substations are the points in the power network where transmission lines and distribution feeders are connected together through circuit breakers or switches via busbars and transformers. This allows for the control of power flows...

Consolidating Physical and Electrical Substation Design into Single Environment Introduction Several months ago, we announced our roadmap for the Substation Design Suite™ (SDS) software. Our goal is to lead the substation design market by enabling “Agile Collaboration for Substation Design...