CYMDIST-ASP is a module that directs fast and optimized electrical switching procedures to support your Outage or Distribution Management System (OMS/DMS) in restoring the service to affected customers.

This innovative software application creates automatically an advanced switching plan to restore electrical service following an outage event of virtually any size. CYMDIST/ASP can be integrated with your Distribution Management System (DMS/NMS/OMS). It is based on restoration "best practices", assisting the Distribution Control Center Operators to build up the "best restoration" scenario directly from their Console.

CYMDIST-ASP runs transparently in the background, keeping into computer memory the dynamic status of the actual network model to isolate affected zones and transfer priority customers to energized circuits. It can make provision for capacity on the available circuits to pickup the load. It displays the switching plan on the maps, and provides switching orders to reenergize affected zones and establish the best strategy to bring the network back to its normal operating conditions.

CYMDIST-ASP uses a real-time electrical model and a multi-objective function to find the single, best restoration plan, not a long list of options. The electrical model is shared with the popular CYMDIST distribution planning software. The shared model contains normal loadflow model components, actual switching equipment status, customer counts, and priority customer locations.

Considerable cost savings can be achieved when CYMDIST-ASP is used to support real-time operations in their efforts to bring the service back as quickly as possible, still maintaining the electrical network within acceptable operating conditions and avoiding permanent damage to the equipment.

CYMDIST-ASP integrated solutions solve multiple problems that are essential to build a responsive and dependable switching/load restoration plan:

1. Automates "Best Practices" restoration methods

• ASP creates optimum switching plan within minutes ready for review.
• Outages are displayed graphically to ease referencing by operators.
• ASP recommendations guide switching of customers to working circuits.
• Gets customers online quicker.
• Plans load transfer switching on circuits very remote from the outages.

2. Advanced Switching Plan provides fastest restoration

• Restoration is based on highest priority customers.
• ASP assists operators in connecting available facilities.
• Isolates zones affected by outages using switching.
• Calculates load on new circuits and prevents overload on circuit or substation.
• Transfers load to available circuits to unload circuits in outage areas.
• Reserves circuit capacity in order to pickup highest priority customers as switching is taking place.

CYMDIST/ASP inherits its remarkable functionality from CYME's power engineering Distribution Analysis program CYMDIST that is used on a daily basis by thousands of electrical engineers and planners worldwide.

The ASP functions are accessed through libraries adhering to the MS Windows standard Component Object Model (COM) interface. It offers great scalability perspectives to address present and future needs.

CYME's dedicated team of professionals is ready to assist your company in integrating its field proven power engineering Components and Modules into your specific environment to leverage your business processes. From the early stage of specification down to the roll out of the system, CYME provides the support and the software services, as required, partnering with your technical staff to implement solutions that will meet your expectations.