Microsoft Showcases MinMax by Writing a Case Study on SMART  (Jan. 2012)

Weatherford, Tx taps Microsoft SharePoint in cloud for electric Utility Inspections.

"Managing the sensitive operational details and regulatory fine points necessary to operate  an electric utility is a tough job.  Substations are the linchpins in the delivery of safe, reliable, useable power to the utility's customers.  Weatherford turned to MinMax not only because its technology partner had SharePoint expertise, but the firm's CEO Dr. Nand Singh also had unique expertise and experience in power engineering.   What emerged was a solution dubbed the Substation Maintenance And Repair Tracking (SMART) application.  The new solution enables users to "build" substation inspection and maintenance documentation from a central library of assets and predefined questions based on muliple regulatory guidelines." says Dustin Deel, Assistant Director of technlogy at City of Weatherford.   

Check out the MinMax SMART feature article in the January issue of T&D World magazine - pp 44-48  (Jan. 2012)

Transmission & Distribution World is the leading industry magazine for the electric power industry edited for engineers and operating professionals.  Feature articles are written primarily by technical editors and industry professionals in the user and manufacturer groups.  

In its January 2012 issue of the magazine, the editors have profiled SMART, a Substation Maintenance And Repair Tracking tool developed by MinMax Technologies for Weatherford Electric and other utilities stepping up to adopt the latest mobile tools for high reliability and performance of their substation equipment.   Read more about this story beginning pp 44 on this link:  http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/57b8996d#/57b8996d . 

City of Weatherford Uses SMART Solution to Track Substation Performance  (Nov. 2011)

Weatherford, a western suburb of Fort Worth, Texas, U.S., is a family centric community with a tradition of planning for the future.  To deliver clean, reliable power to this community requires near-flawless substation performance.  Accordingly, substations must be rigorously and routinely inspected.  However, as is the case with many small utilities, the cost of using an enterprise level ERP type tool was out of reach for Weatherford Electric.

To implement an economical solution, the business and engineering staff of Weatherford Electric partnered with MinMax Technologies to develop SMART (Substation Maintenance and Repair Tracking).  SMART, a cloud-based solution, is an easily configurable program product written on Microsoft's web application platform SharePoint.  The user "builds" substations from a central library of assets, pre-defined inspection questions based on USDA, FERC and NERC guidelines

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MinMax Becomes a Leading VAR for Dundas in the Southwest Region (Sept. 2011)

Based on its successful implementation of numerous executive dashboards, Dundas has appointed MinMax a Value Added Reseller (VAR) for its industry leading data visualization and custom dashboards in the Southwest region of USA.   Dundas is a world leader in advanced data visualization and business dashboard solutions whose success over the years is reflected by its many Fortune 500 customers and numerous awards.

MinMax is excited about utilizing this tool as this will lessen its clients' time to market and significantly lower their overall dash board project costs. While the average time to build a dashboard takes 26 days (Source: Aberdeen Group, March 2011), with the experience using Dundas Dashboard it takes no more than a week to build a typical dashboard.  Using its RAPID methodology with Dundas collaborative approach, MinMax experts analyze the purpose and corporate goals of client's dashboards, explore their current information systems, and deliver solutions tailored to their current challenges and future needs.