October 2, 2009
It happened again, summer is over and the 2009 CYME Users Group in Montreal was a tremendous success. Participants from around the world spent a week learning, networking, sharing information with other CYME users, and providing us the suggestions and feedback we need to continue charting our future direction.
This busy week started with discussions and presentations about the impact that the smart grid initiatives have on distribution system planning. Among the great technical presentations: distributed generation penetration and impact on losses, and improving network efficiency with capacitor banks. One-on-one meetings were held with attendees and the CYME engineering staff to discuss individual issues and workshops for small groups organized to go in depth on a variety of topics. As always, the open forum was lively with attendees directing their individual issues and concerns to a panel of CYME engineers and developers as well as the entire group.
“Another excellent conference that continues to show CYME’s commitment to the development of its product,” commented Peter Allen, a long time users group attendee from Georgia Power Company. “The one on one interaction with CYME’s personnel enhances the understanding and benefits you receive from their products.”
Many of the new features and enhancements now available in CYMDIST 5.0 and CYMTCC 5.0 were demonstrated. These major releases are intended to make the tools easier and more efficient to use than ever while adding functionality to meet some additional as well as emerging needs of distribution engineers.
Dave Dewulf from Hydro One commented on the CYMDIST 5.0 release, “Hydro One will be looking into upgrading to CYMDIST 5.0 for the transient stability analysis module. We feel that the ability to have dynamic analysis of wind turbines and generators will allow us to have greater confidence in the monitoring of our results.”
We are especially grateful that so many of our customers spent this week with us. We are truly excited about the future and looking forward to the 2010 CYME Users Group! Look for details early next year.
Some comments from our customers:
Matthew Pedley, BC Hydro:
“A well organized week of learning and networking in a great city; you will not want to go home.”
Michael Born, ComEd/Exelon:
“It was assuring to hear the Cooper Power view of the role for CYME International in the future and that the primary mission to provide quality analysis software and customer support will not change.”
“The focus on features and enhancement for Cymdist 5.0 will be useful to plan for the transition at my company.”
Herb Wagner, FortisAlberta:
“Another excellent conference this year. It was obvious that the CYME Team is committed to continual improvement and customer satisfaction.”
Robert Eastham, National Grid:
“Good format and good participant input. That's what makes this Users Group Conference stand out from others I've attended.”
“It's always good to see how others are handling the software tools as they deal with their own particular problems.”
Pam Allen, Green Mountain Power:
“Great job! I learned a lot more than I did 2 years ago and I'm really anticipating the release of 5.0.03!”
Dave Dewulf, Hydro One:
“Great conference and good experience for both beginner and advanced Cymdist and CymTCC users. The information presented by CYME experts is always useful.”
“Hydro One will be looking into upgrading to Cymdist 5.0 for the transient stability analysis module. We feel that the ability to have dynamic analysis of Wind Turbines and Generators will allow us to have greater confidence in the monitoring of our results.”
“The hosted social events are always an excellent time!”
Gregory Price, National Grid:
“The User Group conference was overall excellent. The Cyme staff is top notch and Cyme has just the right culture, very customer-oriented, helpful, and friendly. I also like the consistency of the agenda. My participation this year was very productive and I look forward to returning next year.”
Ledum Nordee, National Grid:
“Great improvements and excellent job in address all preexisting limitations experienced in the older modules.”
Peter Allen, Georgia Power:
“Another excellent conference that continues to show CYME's commitment to the development of its product. The one on one interaction with CYME's personnel enhances the understanding and benefits you receive from their products.”
About the Open Forum: “Usually the best part of the conference. Thanks for being open-minded about all the requests we make. The result is that it helps CYME and its users have a top notch Distribution analysis software product that keeps on getting better and better.”
