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PowerDB - Acceptance & Maintenance Test Data Management Software Acceptance & Maintenance Test Data Management Software Home About Us What is PowerDB? History News & Events Employment Opportunities Testimonials Products PowerDB Pro PowerDB Advanced PowerDB Lite Custom Test Forms CMMS Integration Data Hosting Service SQL Server Support Helpdesk / Support Tickets Extended Software Support Program FAQ List of Supported Instruments Licensing Online Discussion Forum Training Help Documents Features Instrument Interfaces Test Form Editor Test Form Organization Quick and Easy Input SQL Server Report Generation NERC Compliance Downloads Forms Organize Your Maintenance Records PowerDB is a powerful software package designed to manage test data from your electrical equipment maintenance and testing activities. Whether you need help complying with NERC regulations or you need to report your test results to a client, PowerDB can provide the solution. Quick & Easy Field Input Test form layout and data entry order were determined by experienced field personnel, following a logical order, streamlining testing and minimizing data entry time. Nameplate and settings are pre-populated from previous testing or similar devices. Location and common job information are automatically populated for each form added to the job. Extensive equation processing, data lookup and charting are done automatically. Automate Your Testing PowerDB can control and operate many electrical test instruments and capture test results directly, or import data from files and other software programs. Whether you test transformers, relays, batteries or any other electrical apparatus, PowerDB can manage the data you need to determine the reliability of your equipment. Get Control Over Test Forms Customer and contract information is shown in an organized job listing. This list can be easily sorted and searched. Opening a specific record in the Job List shows detailed information about the job, such as type of service, order date, sales contact, and invoice information. Results With A Click Of A Mouse A formal report for all test forms included in a job can be created in minutes. The job can be sorted and printed in one step. Initial sorting automatically organizes forms by substation or device type, and designation or test date. The final print order of forms can then be individually adjusted, if desired. Compliance Module An optional Compliance module displays assets that have been assigned a compliance category and subcategory. Along with location and status information, a color-coded calendar shows at-a-glance the compliance status on any selected date, past, present, or future. Planning and organizing for a NERC audit just became much easier. Integrated Forms Editor Drag-and-drop tables, text boxes, images, charts, and more into a form. No database knowledge is required. VBScript® can be used to define calculations, use lookup tables, and even interface with other applications. Tab-order for a form can easily be defined or modified. Sections common to multiple forms, such as logos, headers and footers, can be defined once and included in many forms. One change updates all forms where it is used. NERC Compliance PowerDB Pro Test Data Management Software can help with your compliance to NERC PRC-005-2. When the time comes for your NERC audit, will you be prepared to produce the evidence that confirms your maintenance and testing plan? PowerDB’s asset organization, test forms, and reporting capabilities can provide the information you need, when you need it. Organizing all your critical assets is made simple when using the tools provided by PowerDB. Add new apparatus into the database using our “entry wizard” and you instantly create the locations and designations that identify your equipment. PowerDB’s test form library includes forms for a wide variety of equipment types from relays to batteries, transformers and many more. The test forms provide a user interface for both data entry and reporting, helping to provide consistency in your test and maintenance procedures. And customizing forms or creating new ones can be done in-house even with the most basic installation. PowerDB’s forms also have the built-in capability of communicating with many different test instruments, enabling automated data entry. This can speed up your data handling and eliminate many of the errors associated with manual keyboard entry. It doesn’t matter if you have multiple locations feeding data into the system. Each user can work remotely, then connect to a “master” database to upload all information into one file. This is key to keeping all your test data up-to-date and available for everyone at a moment’s notice. PowerDB also contains a maintenance scheduler, which you configure, that will let you enter default maintenance periods for any asset. This can be customized for particular assets, if desired, based on your own assessment of its condition. Use this feature not only to keep up with critical maintenance, but plan for upcoming outages and resource requirements. Compliance report needed? No problem. A simple summary report shows each asset and its location, including the previous two test dates, the defined maintenance period and next scheduled test date in an easy to read format. A compliance scheduler option is available that allows directly viewing a list of all assets that fall under NERC compliance requirements. The compliance ‘view’ includes a calendar lined up with the asset list to show each asset’s current compliance status. The calendar can be adjusted to any date in the past or future to show status at any desired time. The asset list can be filtered by category or subcategory, location, status, equipment ID, and in many other ways so that you can find one particular asset or a group of assets. Assets coming due can be located easily and selected for inclusion in a job or work order. The compliance option allows categories and subcategories to be set up and assigned to assets on either an individual asset-by-asset basis or to groups of assets. With features like this, PowerDB will provide you with a cost-effective solution for not only complying with NERC and other regulatory requirements, but also managing all your maintenance and testing data. View Image Full Screen Customer Testimonial Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District PowerDB was an answer to a growing set of records that occupied a small room of paper files. Back in 2004 when we visited the NETA Conference in San Antonio, we were introduced to this option of electronic records. At the time this database approach sounded good and we started to enter the last 20 years of data in the electronic format provided by PowerDB. It has been over 8 years now and a SQL conversion of the master helped with the growing size of the database structure. The yearly support that we get in the way of updates, improvements and customer support is essential in this operation. Overall, this was a good investment into our preventive maintenance program and we are looking forward to future enhancements! - Emanuel Blagaila, Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District Sign Up For Training Sign up now for upcoming PowerDB Pro training classes. We offer a two-day basic class, beneficial for both new and experienced users. Learn how to get the most out of the software and its many features. A separate two-day form editing class is also available, where you will learn how to edit forms and create your own custom test forms. Click HERE for schedules and location information or to register . Want to learn more? Click This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for a free PowerDB Pro demonstration via an online webinar and conference call. Contact Details PowerDB, Inc. 3011 Earl Rudder Freeway Suite 200 College Station, TX 77845 Tel: 979.690.7925 Fax: 979.690.0276 Questions: This email address is bein...