Engineering Services:
Applied Technology For Bottom Line Results

Technology is a wonderful tool to leverage a utility’s existing resources and produce significant business improvements – if you choose the right technology. But how? How do you make the right technology decisions to meet regulatory requirements, reduce the cost of chemicals and energy, minimize the number of staff needed to operate while serving your customers better?

The answer lies in learning from the experience of other utilities, knowing what works and what doesn’t, and designing a solution tailored to your specific needs. EMA knows the utility business thanks to successful engineering projects completed at hundreds of North American utilities. From planning through design, implementation, optimization, and monitoring, that experience ensures your utility will reach its bottom-line objectives.

A Comprehensive Approach

Using a comprehensive, long-term approach to your utility’s engineering challenges, EMA combines over 30 years of experience with a thorough understanding of analysis and implementation, proven business process models, best work practices, subject matter expertise, and the best available technologies. The results can be revolutionary – increased revenues, reduced costs, improved productivity and customer satisfaction, better leveraging of information assets and technology, and maximizing of available resources.

As the capabilities and complexities of technology expand, utilities need to rely on specialized expertise to take advantage of open systems, advanced software applications, all types of telemetry and telecommunications, and instrumentation analysis and design. To leverage emerging technology, EMA evaluates the effectiveness of current utility operational practices and the skill levels of the staff involved. By comparing the current situation with opportunities offered by new technology, you’ll have confidence in the decisions you make.

Best practices are crucial to achieve your operational goals. Together, we’ll create a staff development plan to provide the training and education needed to succeed once new systems are in place. EMA will help you plan, design, implement, and optimize automated control and monitoring technology to accomplish that goal.

You will also be able to make the most of the technology investments you have already made – installed control systems that are underutilized because of insufficient training, lack of understanding of system potential, or misapplication of technology.

Principles For Success

EMA’s design and implementation of successful systems is based on three principles. First, designs are built according to specific client needs resulting in true custom solutions. Second, EMA uses standards-based, detailed engineering for supportable systems. Third, EMA does continual research on emerging technologies – mobile wireless for example – and their application to practical business operations. It’s a philosophy that produces results.