Analysis of Russian Experience in Utilities’ Plant Assets Management

The basis for the automation of utilities’ industrial business processes is the subsystem of grid equipment record, within which the tasks of accounting for the grid hierarchy and installed equipment, keeping the transfer of each facility, storing an unlimited number of equipment characteristics with the possibility of further analysis are solved. The paper presents an analysis of existing methods of organizing business processes and processes for managing utilities’ plant assets in the Russian Federation. The paper presents the experience of organizing Business Process Management systems, based on various notations of Integrated Definition for Function Modeling, Business Progress Modeling Notation, Architecture of Integrated Information Systems, and also describes modern approaches to their engineering and implementation at energy enterprises. Within this study, the national experience of introducing Enterprise Resource Planning systems, their basic structure and operation principles are also analyzed as in the case of a distribution grid company. The possibility of using Rapid Deployment Solution-EPAM systems for the presented tasks is also assessed.