the 2005 FORUM Sessions, on invitation of NOK Switzerland, are organised in Baden at the offices of NOK. The near-by situated hotel is pre-booked because of other events and has to be confirmed (with 90% certainty) before June 1 (only via AMforum organization). You will find the program, the expected participating companies, the time-table and the information of the location on this page.
   

BADEN FORUM  - final program

 
please note the interactive discussion on data warehousing, organised on September 7th, from 14.00 - 18.00 hours in the same location. See for detailed info >>>>>>
 
Introduction: learning from each others organizations and relation structures
1 Asset management organization: Each participant presents his/hers organization, details with company structure; no more than 1-3 slides, covering relation with work executing departments, insourcing/outsourcing, relation owner – manager – provider, size of organization, etc.

 2

Regulator affairs: each participant describes actual questions his company faces with (and these are how dealt with): regulators+ environment + safety, bring up their answers/solutions, communication structure to regulator, possible intercommunication with other asset managers, possible support for idea to set up discussion group "regulator affairs".
3 AMforum organizers will report on contacts with other organizations dealing with AM
 
Strategy: learning from some strategies designed and applied
1 Emergency management - main thoughts: catastrophic events, relation to spare supplies, and possible collaboration in spare supplies availability, relation to substation/network design and possible mobile solutions, procedure handbooks, support and information to fire brigades, regulator requirements restoring energy etc.  
2 KPI/Balanced Score Card management: Each participant gives the approach and KPI/BSC design as applied in the company, explain the context and (if possible) the results
  Cigre progress report on the subject to be presented by PW
     
Assets: learning from experience, discussing asset performance, AMforum data base
1 Replacement strategy for relatively good population of assets - replace or refurbish ? maximum usage of assets, risk assessment:  Each participant presents their refurbishment policy, more specifically the following will address oil filled cable (ELIA), circuit breaker/lab accelerated ageing experiment (RTE), instrument transformers (Fingrid), transformers (RTE) + general policy of everyone, exchange of experience , know-how, use of statistical info + need to increase by collaboration (exchange at data level), etc...
2 Communication networks / new standards (Fingrid)
3 Discussion based on internet questions (will be based on actual situation at the AMforum data base, to be dealt with by AMforum organization)
4 Re-investment in de-centralized dispatching and local control
5 Cables and GIS - predictive maintenance (or, as Europeans say: condition assessment based preventive maintenance): Participants are invited to present their relevant approach, results from both application (utility) as providing (provider) view, used approaches as risk management, failure mode analysis, designed and applied measurements, built-up data bases,
6 SF6 book-keeping and presentation of questionnaire results: Participants are asked to report on the local situation with respect to SF6 application on HV and MV level and with regard to book keeping regulations.
     

participating member companies

country - company country - company

Austria Salzburg AG

Belgium ELIA

Bosnia Elektroprivreda BiH

Cyprus Electricity Authority

Czech Republic CEPS

Finland Fingrid

France RTE

Iceland Landsnet

Ireland ESBI

Norway Statnett

Romania Transelectrica

Slovenia ELES

Spain Union Fenosa Distribucion

Switzerland NOK

Switzerland EGL

Switzerland BKW

Switzerland CKW

Switzerland Atel

The Netherlands NUON 

The Netherlands KEMA T&D

The Netherlands Continuon

The Netherlands Essent

United Kingdom EDF Energy

United Kingdom EA Technology

USA Davies Consulting

 

timetable of the FORUM session

8. September 2005:

9. September 2005:

 

 

9.00 - 10.30

morning session I

10.00 - 11.00

arrival/welcome

10.30 - 11.00

coffee break

11.00 - 13.00

morning session

11.00 - 13.00

morning session II

13.15 - 14.30

networking lunch

13.15 - 14.30

networking lunch

14.30 - 16.00

afternoon session I

14.30 - 16.00

afternoon session I

16.00 - 16.30

coffee break

16.00 - 16.30

coffee break

16.30 - 17.30

afternoon session II

16.30 - 17.30

afternoon session II

 

 

 

 

18.30

"meeting at NOK building

17.30

end of FORUM session

18.45

guided tour "Altstadt Baden"

 

 

20.00 - late

dinner on invitation NOK "Villa Boveri"

 

 

hotel (pre)reservations with 90% certainty to be made before June 1

Hotel du Parc

 reservations through AMforum only, thanks to NOK organization

Location: 

Römerstrasse 24, CH-5401 Baden, Phone: +41 (0)56 203 15 15, Fax: +41 (0)56 222 07 93
http://www.bestwestern.ch/duparc/eng/ 

 

from Zürich Airport to Baden

by train : http://fahrplan.sbb.ch/bin/query.exe/en?

- if arriving September 8th in the morning:

 
8:04   25 min   direct
  -13   34 min  change at Zurich main station [HB]
  -32   40 min  change at  Zürich Hardbrücke
  -47   34 min  change at Zurich main station [HB]
  identical scheme for all other hours

how to get there from the train station?

From the train station follow this map, that shows the station as well as the location of NOK building (our meeting). It's just a 5-10 minutes walk, taking the "Bahnhofstrasse" and "Parkstrasse" straight ahead.
 

click to enlarge and print the map