How to Create a Collaborative Model Using ETAP NETPM

ETAP is quite literally a database of information, OK, we can store information, whether that's maintenance data, system documentation, or even user to find things, if we want to track the asset color, right, we can all within the same system model.
By Carter Sanders, Engineering Software and Services Manager, Schneider Electric

This presentation explores ETAP's Network Project Manager (NETPM) 's critical role in creating collaborative power systems models. It addresses the industry-wide challenge of maintaining accurate, up-to-date electrical system data, highlighting the risks associated with outdated or inaccessible information. The speaker introduces NETPM as a solution, demonstrating how it facilitates the creation of "living models" that evolve with the system. Key topics include the implementation of NETPM, focusing on user roles, permissions, and effective workflows. A customer success story illustrates the tangible benefits of NETPM, including reduced man-hours, faster information transfer, and improved risk mitigation. The presentation also covers important considerations for model management, data access, and adapting service models to incorporate NETPM effectively. This talk showcases how NETPM can enhance safety, reliability, and efficiency in power system management by emphasizing the shift from static diagrams to dynamic, collaborative models. It concludes by encouraging audiences to explore NETPM's potential in their operations, positioning it as a crucial tool for navigating the complexities of modern electrical systems.

Schneider Electric is a global industrial technology leader bringing world-leading expertise in electrification, automation, and digitization to smart industries, resilient infrastructure, future-proof data centers, intelligent buildings, and intuitive homes. Anchored by deep domain expertise, they provide integrated end-to-end lifecycle AI-enabled Industrial IoT solutions with connected products, automation, software, and services, delivering digital twins to enable profitable growth for customers. A company with an ecosystem of 168,000 employees and more than a million partners operating in over 100 countries ensures proximity to its customers and stakeholders.

Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Year: 2025

Creating an up-to-date electrical system model

Challenges

  • Identifying the appropriate tool to read and register information about power systems in the cloud, with a high level of communication between stakeholders.
  • Creating collaborative models for electrical power systems based on multi-user access, high-security standards, and permissions.
  • Maintaining accurate, up-to-date electrical system data in an understandable, clear workflow. 
  • Coordinating different stages of the issues, events, and roles definition.
  • Highlighting the risks associated with outdated or inaccessible information.

Which solutions do they choose?

Selected applications

They utilize ETAP Network Model Management NetPM to maintain a high standard of real-time information management for the electrical power system. This includes synchronization, data integration, model coordination, validation, and information transfer.

They use ETAP digital twin.

Why do they use ETAP?

Main Customer Benefits

  • Single source of truth for electrical system data in the cloud model, with a highly reduced number of errors.
  • Shorten the time for power system modeling and studies.
  • Easy cooperation with stakeholders from multiple internal and external teams, with appropriate network access.
  • Clear workflow of changes and synchronizations. Clear roles and permissions can be assigned, depending on responsibilities.
  • NetPM enhances safety, reliability, and efficiency in power system management.
  • Effects of infrastructure upgrades and changes in the production process are accessible in the electrical model, with high-quality visualization, and communication.

What do they think about ETAP?

Opinions

Part of the toolset to make that continuous management possible is Net PM. So, this module can help facilitate collaboration. It focuses on maintaining data integrity by giving you a revision control system and then streamlines the process of communicating these changes with multiple stakeholders.

By Carter Sanders, Engineering Software and Services Manager, Schneider Electric

NetPM is the tool that ETAP has provided that enables us to collaborate with multiple stakeholders, ensuring the model remains a single source of truth. In conclusion, NetPM is essential for effectively managing electrical system information.
By Carter Sanders, Engineering Software and Services Manager, Schneider Electric



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Electrical Power System Analysis