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Columbus, Ohio – August 28, 2017

ARCOS® LLC has implemented its Software-as-a-Service ARCOS CallOut® and Scheduling solution at the Oakdale, N.Y.-headquartered Suffolk County Water Authority to automate how the utility deploys its staff when responding to customer emergencies.

“Until recently it took a significant amount of time to manually call union employees when responding to customer calls, taxing supervisors who made calls from paper lists while juggling other duties,” says Jeffrey Szabo, chief executive officer for the Suffolk County Water Authority. “Manual callouts delayed assembling crews, lengthening emergency response time.”

SCWA, which supplies safe, potable drinking water to 1.2 million residents on Long Island, has implemented an automated callout system for its Customer Service personnel as well as Construction Maintenance and Production Control departments that enables the water authority to expeditiously respond to, restore and report on water service interruptions. With a few keystrokes, the system automatically mirrors union agreements dictating the order of callouts and finds and confirms available crews in minutes.

When using the callout system after business hours, Szabo says the utility mobilizes crews and responds to work up to 40 minutes faster than the prior manual process. With the automated system, supervisors can now have paperwork ready, a “mark out” called in and be on site when crews arrive. SCWA has also used the ARCOS callout system to reach 800 customers who were without water for several hours, reducing its Customer Service workload from hours to minutes.

“Automated callout has also improved our reporting and analytics for callouts and overtime,” adds Szabo. “The automated callout system has eliminated union grievances on callouts and reduced legal expenses, along with improving our customer service.”

About ARCOS LLC

ARCOS is the North American leader in delivering resource management SaaS solutions to the utility industry. ARCOS automates crew assembly and resource management daily and during emergencies, ultimately helping to restore energy faster, yet safely, to communities. The award-winning solution helps utilities save time and money, while improving customer satisfaction. Learn more about ARCOS resource management software at www.arcos-inc.com. ARCOS CallOut® and ARCOS Crew Manager® are registered trademarks of ARCOS LLC.

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Columbus, Ohio – June 8, 2017

ARCOS^® LLC has implemented its Software-as-a-Service  ARCOS^® Callout and Scheduling solution at Missouri-based City Utilities of Springfield’s John Twitty Energy Center, James River Power Station, Noble Hill Landfill Renewable Energy Center and McCartney Generation Station to automate the forecasting, planning and call out of electrical, mechanical and operations personnel. The four plants (a mix of coal-fired and gas turbines) produce nearly 800 MW of power.

The ARCOS solution standardizes the way utilities respond, restore and report, while taking into account bargaining unit agreements, so shift supervisors can automatically fill and re-arrange schedules as conditions warrant. City Utilities of Springfield (CU) has used the ARCOS Callout and Scheduling solution for its electric transmission and distribution workers since 2008. Due to the success of ARCOS for CU’s electric T&D operations, CU generation station managers bought the solution to help the four plants, which employ almost 120 workers – 70 of whom belong to IBEW Local 753 – meet staffing levels for emergency work, job continuation, and unloading coal trains. The ARCOS solution will serve as the labor system of record for the James Twitty Energy Center, which is where CU’s workers report before supervisors dispatch them to the other generation stations.

“We’ll use the ARCOS solution like our electric distribution system does:  hit a button, let the ARCOS software takeover by getting personnel on site based on their qualifications, so supervisors can go back to overseeing our plants,” said David Nelson, outage planner for City Utilities of Springfield. “We easily tailored ARCOS to the Statement of Intent for our union so callout rules are fair and equitable.”

Before implementing ARCOS, it could take CU supervisors up to an hour to find an electrician to rack out a breaker and then locate a mechanic and support staff to perform repairs. While a supervisor was manually dialing workers for emergent work, he couldn’t address other problems that required his presence.

“If needed, our supervisors can even launch a callout from home with ARCOS, which speeds up the process of getting workers into the plant for emergency or routine work,” adds Nelson. “If we have an environmental issue and need all-hands on deck, or have to relay critical information, the ARCOS emergency notification feature lets us fire off a news bulletin to everyone.”

“Whether the employer is a muni or a co-op – whether it delivers electricity, gas or water – we have a solution that mirrors the way utility professionals safely go about their jobs,” says Ted Schneider, chief technology officer for ARCOS.

About ARCOS LLC

ARCOS is the North American leader in delivering crew callout and crew management SaaS solutions to the utility industry. ARCOS automates crew assembly and management daily and during emergencies, ultimately helping to restore energy faster, yet safely, to communities. The award-winning solution helps utilities save time and money, while improving customer satisfaction. Learn more about ARCOS emergency resource management software at www.arcos-inc.com.  ARCOS and Crew Manager are registered trademarks of ARCOS LLC.

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Duke Energy keynote to show how technology aided response to Hurricane Matthew

Columbus, Ohio – February 21, 2017

ARCOS^® LLC, the North American leader in utility resource management software, will host nearly 60 electric, gas and power plant utilities at its 14th-annual ARCOS Conference in St. Petersburg, Fla., from February 26 – March 1, 2017, to present cutting-edge strategies and technologies for responding to outages, restoring service and reporting on the restoration process.

Duke Energy Vice President of Engineering and Storm Director Luis Ordaz will deliver a keynote address giving attendees an insider’s look at how one of America’s largest utilities grappled with preparing for and restoring service after Category 5 Hurricane Matthew.

The conference agenda also includes Duke Energy Vice President of Construction & Maintenance Dave Maxon presenting highlights from a pre-conference ARCOS Executive Summit of international and U.S. utilities. Maxon will report on trends and technologies discussed in the summit, which focuses on successfully operating the utility company of the future.

ARCOS and its utility partners will run nearly 40 sessions including:

• exploring mobile damage assessment with ARCOS’s solution;
• automatically building crews for blue-sky and emergency response via Crew Manager, which a utility can use to increase its adherence rate for planned work by more than 10 percent;
• improving communication with customers and contractors via the ARCOS SIREN^® Mass Calling solution; and
• using callout and event management software to safely speed up service restoration.

Sessions will be led by expert ARCOS users from Eversource, NiSource, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Southern Company, Tampa Electric Company, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation and more.

“At the conference, we share the hard-won know-how to get faster, sharper and safer about service restoration,” said Bruce Duff, chief executive of ARCOS. “Discussions happen in presentations, over meals and in the hallways. Attendees are laser-beam focused on imparting what they know. We also get incredible user input for designing ARCOS’s technologies now and into the future.”

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About ARCOS LLC

ARCOS is the North American leader in delivering crew callout and crew resource management SaaS solutions to the utility industry. ARCOS automates damage assessment and inspection, crew assembly daily and during emergencies, ultimately helping to restore energy faster, yet safely, to communities. The award-winning solutions help utilities save time and money, while improving customer satisfaction. Learn more about ARCOS emergency resource management software at www.arcos-inc.com.  ARCOS and Crew Manager are registered trademarks of ARCOS LLC.

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Columbus, Ohio – August 16, 2016

ARCOS LLC, the North American leader in emergency resource management software for utilities, has acquired SAMsix, an innovator in utility mobile software. The acquisition combines ARCOS’ industry leading abilities to quickly activate and manage personnel and equipment with SAMsix’s mobile damage assessment and crew location services. The purchase fulfills ARCOS customer demand for automated mobile damage assessment and location services as part of the ARCOS platform and strategically supports ARCOS’ mission to help utilities improve operational efficiency, restoration time, and service reliability for their customers.

The ARCOS enterprise solution enables utilities to automate callouts, manage crews for daily work, and mobilize emergency response logistics and personnel (i.e., internal support staff, mutual assistance crews and contractors) during a large outage or catastrophic event. The SAMsix products help utilities quickly document damage to infrastructure in hours versus days. The SAMsix solution also supports routine field inspections in addition to providing crew location services that enable comprehensive situational awareness during an emergency.

“When combined with SAMsix, the ARCOS platform will be the first in the utility industry to integrate damage assessment, crew resource management, and the logistics support needed for routine field inspections and to restore power and respond during emergency events,” said Bruce Duff, chief executive officer of ARCOS. “This will significantly improve a utility’s ability to accurately forecast the estimated time of restoration (ETR) for customers and regulators.”

As utilities use SAMsix to determine repairs and material needs, managers can quickly estimate whether they require mutual assistance and contractor crews to complete the work, getting the power on sooner at less cost to the utility. SAMsix crew tracking also monitors the movement of crews into or across a utility’s service territory, while ARCOS Crew Manager allows storm and incident commanders to manage today’s available crews and support resources along with planning tomorrow’s work based on the anticipated arrival time of crews at staging sites.

“With our mobile applications, front-line crews and contractor personnel have reduced the time required for damage assessment, daily inspection and other operational tasks from days to hours,” added Steve McMaster, SAMsix founder, now managing director of SAMsix products at ARCOS. “SAMsix apps are device agnostic, running on smartphones, tablets and PCs. They are 100% functional without connectivity, allowing uninterrupted reporting and navigation during storms. And they fully integrate with corporate OMS, WMS and GIS closing the loop from job assignment to completion.”

ARCOS will integrate the SAMsix products into the ARCOS platform. SAMsix customers will continue to be serviced by the same team members, and have the same high quality SAMsix products and service, plus have the option to access the ARCOS product suite. The combined company will maintain SAMsix’s New Paltz, NY office and all employees.

ABOUT ARCOS

ARCOS LLC is the North American leader in delivering SaaS emergency resource management solutions to help utilities respond, restore and report to daily and large scale emergency events. ARCOS software ultimately enables utilities to restore energy fast and safely to communities. Learn more about ARCOS emergency resource management software at www.arcos-inc.com.

Columbus, Ohio – June 7, 2016 

ARCOS, the North American leader in utility resource management software, has been recognized by United Way of Central Ohio with the “Best New Partner Award.” The award recognizes an organization that has incorporated model strategies into their new campaign and makes United Way a part of their organizational culture. The team at ARCOS met their goal of 100 percent employee participation through donation of time, goods or financial resources.

“Many of our customers partner with United Way in their communities. For example, AEP and Columbia Gas (NiSource) have been running United Way campaigns for quite some time. So when Ram Sastry, vice president – infrastructure & business continuity, at American Electric Power (AEP), reached out to me about United Way, I knew we wanted to get involved,” explained Bruce A. Duff, CEO, ARCOS.

“One of our core values is ‘We solve the industries toughest challenges.’ Working with United Way gave us the opportunity to help solve some of the community’s toughest challenges,” noted Duff.

Keys to a successful campaign included getting employees involved first-hand with volunteering at the Community Free Store and the deconstruction of a property for Habitat for Humanity. Other donation opportunities included contests at a local arcade, gathering personal items and Christmas gifts for the Free Store’s Christmas Shop and a generous matching program.

“Once our employees saw the need right here in our community, they came together with enthusiasm to give back. They are now volunteering year-round for United Way agencies,” said Duff.

ABOUT ARCOS LLC

ARCOS is the North American leader in delivering crew callout and crew management SaaS solutions to the utility industry. ARCOS automates crew assembly and management daily and during emergencies, ultimately helping to restore energy faster, yet safely, to communities. The award-winning solution helps utilities save time and money, while improving customer satisfaction. Learn more about ARCOS emergency resource management software at www.arcos-inc.com. ARCOS and Crew Manager are registered trademarks of ARCOS LLC

Media contact: Bill Perry Mobile: 614-975-7538

Columbus, Ohio – May 4, 2016

ARCOS has implemented its Crew Manager solution for Eversource Energy to increase completion rates for planned work. The resource management solution enables centralized crew planning that employees across the service territory can run during blue-sky days and major events. With centralized data about crews and resources, Eversource is able to operate more efficiently across 40 work centers in three states.

“Crew Manager gives Eversource a look at how much work gets done daily and whether there’s consistency in how crews approach work,” said Bill Brackett, vice president of Services and Support at ARCOS.

Crew Manager, an automated crew management solution, increases work schedule maximization rates. In a work center with 25 employees working a 40-hour week, there will be a maximum of 1,000 hours of work for planning purposes. Eversource planners input desired staff hours into the plan for each work center. Using the Crew Manager SaaS solution to schedule work and the make-up of crews, the utility’s adherence rates for planned work have climbed more than 10 percent company-wide.

To boost productivity, Eversource wanted every supervisor to know how his or her peers organized and dispatched crews. In the past, one work center might assign a three-person crew to a particular kind of job that another work center handled with two lineworkers. By displaying this information in Crew Manager for all crews and managers to see, supervisors can now collaborate on how to “right-size” crews for the job.

“We are constantly striving to operate more efficiently, so when trouble arises, customers see fewer and shorter outages,” said Steve Gilkey, vice president of Electric Field Operations for Eversource Energy in Connecticut. “We have had our share of storms over the past few years here in New England. Using Crew Manager has helped ensure that crews across our service territory can travel and assist those in other states using one consistent tool that maximizes productivity.”

Every crew member across Eversource’s system can now walk into a work center and see the same 80-inch smartboard broadcasting Crew Manager, which shows their truck, crew and work tasks for the day.

Crew Manager also shows Eversource the kind of trucks its crews use on certain jobs and if they are accomplishing jobs with, say, smaller vehicles. The information helps the company decide if some equipment on the property isn’t necessary, which can lead to retiring assets. In the wake of major outages, Crew Manager provides a look back at specific days, hours or minutes to see the location of crews and what they worked on. For any storm, managers can precisely determine how many crews were on the system, which increases confidence when presenting storm cost recovery information.

About ARCOS LLC

ARCOS is the North American leader in delivering crew callout and crew management SaaS solutions to the utility industry. ARCOS automates crew assembly and management daily and during emergencies, ultimately helping to restore energy faster, yet safely, to communities. The award-winning solution helps utilities save time and money, while improving customer satisfaction. Learn more about ARCOS emergency resource management software at www.arcos-inc.com.  ARCOS and Crew Manager are registered trademarks of ARCOS LLC.

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Columbus, Ohio – March 23, 2016

Turlock Irrigation District automates crew call out and scheduling with ARCOS Columbus, Ohio – March 23, 2016 – With the ARCOS® Callout and Scheduling solution, the 650-squaremile Turlock Irrigation District (TID), one of four California irrigation districts providing water and electricity, has reduced by up to 60 minutes the time it takes to identify and assemble crews for restoration work. The ARCOS technology replaced paper lists that the utility’s control center operators relied on to call out linemen available to return power after an outage.

Prior to implementing ARCOS, when a customer called about a power outage, TID would first send a troubleshooter to assess the situation. If the troubleshooter requested a crew to complete the restoration, then the utility’s control center operator would make the calls to build a line crew. Hand dialing to assemble a crew could take anywhere from 15 minutes to 1.5 hours depending on such factors as time and day of the week, weather and lineman availability.

According to TID managers, working from a paper list to find crew members could also lead to mistakes that spurred grievances about the equitable distribution of overtime hours for members of IBEW Local 1245. If an operator was working from a paper list to find linemen and looked away because a feeder tripped, he might skip a name on a call out list. While this was an honest mistake, it would lead to complaints.

“The cost of grievances and the fact that it was simply taking us too much time to put together a crew precipitated a move to an automated solution,” said James Ramos, Electrical Engineering and Operations Department manager for Power Operations, Turlock Irrigation District. “We have software for logging outages and outage coordination, but to turn something like that into an automated call out solution would require far too much customization if it could be done at all.

“We learned that ARCOS is widely used across the utility industry,” added Ramos. “It is the gold standard for callout systems.”

The TID ARCOS solution covers a combination of approximately 40 linemen along with control center operators and managers. Since putting the solution in place, TID control center operators now spend less time assembling line crews and the frustration felt by linemen for being skipped over as part of a call out for restoration work has been eliminated.

“We have not had a single grievance since implementing ARCOS,” remarked John Rover, Line Division manager for the Turlock Irrigation District.

About ARCOS, LLC

ARCOS® is the North American leader in delivering crew callout and crew management SaaS solutions to the utility industry. ARCOS automates crew assembly and management daily and during emergencies, ultimately helping to restore energy faster, yet safely, to communities. The award-winning solution helps utilities save time and money, while improving customer satisfaction. Learn more about ARCOS emergency resource management software at www.arcos-inc.com.

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Columbus, Ohio – February 29, 2016

ARCOS® LLC, a provider of crew callout and crew management solutions, will host 59 Canadian and U.S. electric, gas and power plant utilities at the 13th-annual ARCOS Conference in Chandler, Ariz., from March 6 – 9, 2016. Utility speakers from across North America will showcase how crew management technologies have evolved to enhance response time and performance metrics. Arizona Public Service will deliver the conference keynote session titled “Operating the grid like never before.”

The conference agenda includes roundtable discussions featuring emergency management experts from American Electric Power, Con Edison and Portland General Electric. Emergency management leaders from these utilities will facilitate an exchange of ideas on how to improve response time for gas leaks, emergent work and outages with ARCOS solution’s such as Crew Manager. Identifying efficiencies in the way utilities can manage resources and logistics during daily operations and major events is a focus of the sessions.

At the conference, ARCOS and its utility partners will present nearly 40 sessions including: what it takes to operate and maintain today’s changing electrical grid; improving response rates for first responders with the ARCOS Closest-to-the-Trouble solution; managing crew call outs from a mobile solution at Pacific Gas & Electric; and improving customer satisfaction with the ARCOS SIREN® Mass Calling solution.

“We’re again bringing together dozens of North America’s best utilities in a way that allows them to collaborate one-on-one, in small and large groups and via mobile technology; attendees will learn about and share the very best practices for managing emergencies, daily operations and crews,” said Bruce Duff, chief executive of ARCOS. “There are also numerous ad-hoc discussions and dedicated sessions for attendees to give input and recommendations that actually affect the design of ARCOS’s technologies.”

ARCOS will also provide conference participants an opportunity to attend ARCOS University, a line-up of how-to sessions offering benchmarks and case studies for getting the most out of ARCOS’s solutions. To review the conference agenda or register, visit http://bit.ly/1QA3Fvk.

About ARCOS LLC

ARCOS® is the North American leader in delivering crew callout and crew management SaaS solutions to the utility industry. ARCOS automates crew assembly and management daily and during emergencies, ultimately helping to restore energy faster, yet safely, to communities. The award-winning solution helps utilities save time and money, while improving customer satisfaction. Learn more about ARCOS emergency resource management software at www.arcos-inc.com.

Media contact: Bill Perry

Mobile: 614-975-7538

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With ARCOS Crew Manager, Central Hudson Gas & Electric looks to save on labor, mutual aid Columbus, Ohio – January 12, 2016 – ARCOS® LLC will implement its Software-as-a-Service Crew Manager® product at Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. (Central Hudson) later this year to improve the speed with which the utility mobilizes crews to restore gas and electric service. The implementation is part of the utility’s internal process improvement initiative. Central Hudson identified the largely manual crew logistics portion of its storm-response process as an area that Crew Manager could automate.

ARCOS Crew Manager creates a centralized database that Central Hudson will use to rapidly position crews, contractors and mutual aid workers during restoration efforts.

“Crew Manager streamlines the storm side of our operations and gives us a level of visibility that we never had before; and it will automate building and tracking gas and electric crews on blue-sky days,” said Ryan Hawthorne, director of Dispatch Operations for Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp.

The team behind the initiative found that during major events Central Hudson worked doubly hard to manage the logistics and lodging for foreign crews.

“Our team identified a potential savings of $100,000 per $1 million spent on mutual aid,” added Hawthorne. “Our current system for handling foreign crew lodging and meals, for example, can be cumbersome and during major events requires our team to manage a large, unwieldy spreadsheet.”

Crew Manager’s tracking features accurately account for the housing and feeding of hundreds (or thousands) of company, contract and mutual aid crews. With reports from Crew Manager, Central Hudson can compare invoices from foreign crews with the work these crews perform, minute by minute.

“There won’t be any questions about where foreign crews were, what they accomplished or how long it took them to restore service for our customers,” said Hawthorne. “Crew Manager is a transformational change in terms of work management and the ability to track internal and external crews.”

Central Hudson will use Crew Manager around the clock. So dispatchers, supervisors and crews will be familiar with the tool regardless of the conditions. According to Hawthorne, automating crew management will give supervisors more time in the field to: monitor safety; ensure efficient work practices; and direct crews. Currently, Central Hudson’s supervisors can spend up to an hour per day planning work for the following day or re-aligning resources if a crew member is ill, training or away. The Crew Manager solution will also provide supervisors and dispatchers with centralized, automated visibility of activities such as vehicle usage. This can prevent, for example, the over assignment of a truck.

“We estimate the efficiencies in labor costs from using Crew Manager on blue-sky days will be $100,000 per year, which can then be applied to higher-valued tasks,” remarked Hawthorne. “It eliminates manual tasks such as building daily work plans with spreadsheets, using paper notes to juggle crews and trucks, and refresher training on a storm system that dispatchers might use only a few times per year.”

Once implemented, Crew Manager will store contacts for approximately 200 to 300 Central Hudson linemen, first- and second-line supervisors and gas mechanics. Crew Manager will complement the ARCOS Callout solution, which Central Hudson installed in 2005 to automate the call out of its crews.

About ARCOS, LLC

Twenty-four of the top 25 U.S. utilities rely on the ARCOS® Callout and Scheduling Suite. When the power goes out, a gas leak is reported or another emergency occurs, the award-winning, SaaS-based ARCOS Suite instantaneously finds, assembles and tracks repair crews, reducing outage interruptions and improving restoration time for electric, gas and power plant utilities. For more information, visit www.arcos-inc.com or call 614-396-5500. # # # Media contact: Bill Perry Mobile: 614-975-7538

Columbus, Ohio – June 25, 2015

If an automobile collides with a power pole and knocks it down at midnight or lighting takes out a transformer over a holiday weekend, Grant Public Utility District can reach a small army of electric linemen and others in seconds to begin the process of restoration. Since May, Grant PUD, which serves 46,000 customers across Grant County, Wash., has launched more than 900 automated, outbound calls to assemble crews via the Saas-based ARCOS® Callout and Scheduling Suite.

Before May 2015, Grant PUD contacted crews via a manual process. When a power outage occurred after normal working hours, Grant PUD’s dispatchers would manually dial a list of workers to find available personnel to begin restoration work.

“Dialing each worker by hand for a callout could take as long as an hour,” says Chris Heimbigner, line superintendent for Grant PUD. “Dispatchers had to manually roll – or move people from the top to the bottom of a list – for each callout. With ARCOS, we took the manual process out of callouts.”

According to Heimbigner, Grant PUD learned about the ARCOS solution from Spokane, Wash.-based Avista Utilities, which uses the suite for assembling, managing and tracking electric and gas crews. The ARCOS solution automates the assembly of crews for emergency repair, filling a shift or special projects. And it strictly mirrors the work agreements in place between Grant PUD and IBEW Local 77 for callout and overtime rules.

“I do believe ARCOS has decreased outage duration and our response time,” adds Heimbigner. “We’re a huge county. And the system is new, and we’ve had to make adjustments moving from a manual process to an automated one, but we’ve had zero issues.”

After manual callouts, Heimbigner says he was regularly questioned about why one crew member was called before another or skipped over entirely. Digging into the reasons why manual calls were made in a particular order could take away hours each week from managing contracts and daily operations. With the automated system, Heimbigner now spends that previously lost time solving customer issues, ensuring safety and supporting engineering work. Heimbigner also sees the ARCOS solution’s reporting features helping Grant PUD with crew management. Being able to automatically review and confirm the outcome of each event and callout will give Grant PUD a view of where trouble areas are, who’s responding and how frequently crews respond. The ARCOS solution covers line workers; station operators; electricians; fiber technicians and fiber installers; customer service representatives; and transportation, facility and warehouse workers.

“The automated callout system removes the human element of calling people and saves hours of a dispatcher’s time,” says Grant PUD ARCOS Administrator Taffy Courteau. “The maintenance of our rosters and the sanctity of the order of calls is preserved.”

About ARCOS LLC

Twenty-four of the top 25 U.S. utilities rely on the ARCOS® Callout and Scheduling Suite. When the power goes out, a gas leak is reported or another emergency occurs, the award-winning, SaaS-based ARCOS Suite instantaneously finds, assembles and tracks repair crews, reducing outage interruptions and improving restoration time for electric, gas and power plant utilities. For more information, visit www.arcos-inc.com or call 614-396-5500.

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Even when utilities try their best to get word out about a planned outage or change in water flow level, customers often say they never received information. Door hangers left by utilities on front doors can easily fall off or go unnoticed by consumers using a different entry point. Manually dialing municipalities downstream from a hydroelectric power plant requires time away from other operations, sometimes up to an hour or more.

ARCOS® LLC, a provider of crew callout and crew management systems and services for 24 of the top 25 U.S. utilities, has launched new features for its ARCOS Mobile application, which speeds up the call out of utility crews for emergencies such as electric outages, gas leaks or a power plant boiler tube leak. ARCOS Mobile provides easier access to the ARCOS Callout and Scheduling Suite for utility managers and crews via a tablet, phablet or smartphone.

ARCOS® LLC, a provider of crew callout and crew management solutions, will host more than 50 of America’s electric, gas and power plant utilities at the 12th-annual ARCOS Conference at the Wild Dunes Resort in Charleston, S.C., from March 15 – 18, 2015. San Diego Gas & Electric – winner of the 2014 ReliabilityOne™ National Reliability Excellence Award – will deliver the conference keynote session titled “What does it take to become a reliable electric utility?”