tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363416592009-11-12T04:52:22.534-08:00Electric Utility Management Systems will help companies to improve its efficiency and productivity. However, the key point of successful system is to have solid definitions of business processes involved.Aschodenoreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36341659.post-16905644760901782792009-03-30T15:29:00.000-07:002009-03-30T15:36:53.868-07:00

One of the practical way to reduce your electric bill is by modifying a little bit your overhead garage door opener. By default, there are connected 24 hours a day to stand by waiting signal from your remote control. With a little modification mentioned in this ebook, you can have additional switch to have them turn off while you are at home. This could cut the cost by 50% alone. More tips can

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Project Management Office (PMO) exists in the central organization to monitor all the running projects in the company. PMO controls the management of the projects, programs or the combination of both.Thus, in a nutshell, PMO support and control Project Manager (PM). In details, the difference of PM and PMO are below:PM controls the resources achieve the project objectives, while PMO optimizes

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With the increase of electricity rates, our electricity bills are increasing even if you usage/consumption remains the same. There are several ways to reduce the cost of your electricity bill. From illegal by doing meter by pass to legal ways.The legal ways can be done just by reducing the electric consumption. It can be done by choosing lights or appliances that consume less energy. Another

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With the increase of oil price in the world, people have been looking to create their own small bio diesel production at home. Is it difficult? If you follow the step by step of making bio diesel at home ebook, it would be very easy. You can start saving hundred or even thousand of dollar every month. See it your self this ebook about making bio diesel at home.

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Many electric companies install meter inside customer's property for the following reasons:1. To avoid that the meter is being stolen.2. To avoid weather conditions like rain, hot temperature, etc.3. To avoid people vandalism.These type of strategy does not seem to be very strategic in today life. Especially in the big cities where are most couples are working and do not have somebody in the

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Previous post was discussing about paying the electric bill with credit card. The idea is to make a payment before due date to avoid the hassle of disconnection done by the electricity company. Recent movement of electricity companies is to shorten the due date to collect money faster. It is a strategy to reduce the commercial cycle (reading-billing-collection). Aside from collecting money

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Paying electric bill is something routine that we need to do it every month. Well, it depends on your electric provider whether they are issuing the bill monthly or quarterly. If you noticed, every years, the electric company becomes more strict in deadline of payments. If you pass the deadline without paying the bill on time, in 1 or 2 days, you will get a notice of disconnection right away.

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In my previous post, I wast posting about how to by pass meter (electricity meter). The commonly done is by tampering electric meter. Tampering does not always mean to open the meter and manipulate the internal process of the meter. The common meter tampering is just by use magnet to slow down or to stop completely the disc rotation.I was looking at this video that I found. The author of

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One of the first things that you should do when looking at your ability to make your home more cost efficient is to know just what you are currently paying. By taking the time to determine what you are currently spending on energy, you can better determine which areas you have the potential to save with. In each area of the country, there are different rates, different co ops and a wide range

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In most countries, the tariff of electricity keeps on increasing. One of the reasons is because the raw material to make to energy arises for the past years. Limitation of energy pushes government to regulate tariff with higher prices with the objective that customer will use electricity wisely. In this post and the following posts, I would try to discuss the method you can follow to case

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Electricity Digital Panel Meter or for short Digital Meter has been available in the market by different vendors. The question arises for Electricity or other utility companies in general if they need to invest in digital meters.Digital meters are NOT all Automatic Meter Reading (AMR). Digital meter is just like analog meters but displaying measures in digital, while AMR is sending the meter

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The term project becomes so familiar in our every day work. The successful projects running in companies often tempt to have more projects to be launched simultaneously. Upper management could easily forget the important of solid project team member to drive the projects to be successful. As defined in "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) Third Edition", the

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In some utility company, the meter information stored in billing system is not reliable. This situation could happen when utility company pays too much attention of customer ID or service ID or property ID or other ID to locate and identify the service. It means that when doing meter reading, the readers tends to look for those IDs instead of meter information. If your company is guilty of

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As project manager, you tend to be invited to some informal meetings. These informal meetings could take place in restaurants, golf courts, or even casinos. That it why as a project manager, one should as well enhance his or her social knowledges for other sports and/or activities during leisure time. A common interest could make an informal meeting more relax. Imagine a situation where you

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"Analysis and Design" Phase is a phase in Project Management for Application or Software. During this process, a consultant or analyst will do depth analysis on the current situation and relate them with the application, software, or system that are going to be implemented or enhanced. Though it is one of very important phase in the project management, there seem to be ignored or not paid

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Working in the project requires me to travel into some countries. Calling to my family or offices abroad becoming my daily routines. To reduce the cost of calling abroad, I make use of Internet Phone Service. There are many providers out there that can give you good rate for Long Distance Phone Rates. However, make sure that you have good internet connection. Otherwise, your calls will be

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Recently, I was sending the meter readers to the field to obtain some of the meter brands and model in customers' properties. To my surprise, they returned with different lists on the same area. Even though meter readers always going to the field to read meters, it is NOT necessarily mean that they know the meter brand and models. Why?1. When they read the meters, they only read the meter

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As mentioned in my previous post regarding the importance of external communications in implementing new billing system, project management should take the campaigns of external communications seriously.One way to launch external communication campaigns is through website. Project management should choose the web hosting company to put all web sites files. Sounds difficult to choice a right

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Communication in project management are mostly relied on email exchanges. Data are passed as well trough email communications. Email accounts should be able to be accessed and downloaded using Email application in laptop so that the emails can be read even though the project team members are off line.To minimize the cost of having reliable email server, project management can look for hosted

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When implementing new system, conversion was done during cut off period. When all data have been converted from old system into new system, the back up data of this starting data for new system should be backup and stored into separate dB that can be accessible easily.Even thought that the data should undergone validations process and approval, it is common that after the new system go live,

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Many utility companies are still applying monthly charges for customers. Let us say: monthly meter rent, or monthly fixed charged. Why? Mainly because the companies implemented monthly billing and the system is not able to compute daily.Monthly charges seem to be simple and easily understand by customers, but it is NOT fair to both company and customers. Imagine that the electricity is

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Christmas is coming next month we need to buy some gifts for our loved ones. It is becoming a tradition in my family to exchange gifts in during Christmas eve. We need to email our wish list to family to make sure that the gifts are usable. I like to do shopping a month before Christmas to avoid hassle and crowd places in shopping centers. Anyway, most stores already started their SALE signs

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Online payment for billing system in general or utility billing system in specific requires a defined business process to ensure all financial statements are correct and good data integrity.Online payment could be handled in several ways, namely:- Online payment through website. This requires coordination for any payment gateways or banks to receive payments using credit card and/or bank

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In Customer Management System, especially in utility companies, the process of cashier closing is important. At the end of the day, all cashier (whether online of offline) should be closed and do not receive any payment anymore. A good customer management system could detect any unbalance money movement when the cashier is closed. How?Let say that there are 3 cashiers: cashier A, B, and C.

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Why do people like to personalize their plate numbers? One common reason is to have it personalized with the owner personality or name. They tend to buy private plate numbers with their initial name on it. However, most companies nowadays are buying personal plate numbers for their cars as part of marketing strategies to promote their company or products. Northumbria Numbers is a company that

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