DRˣ: Distribution Reliability Excellence
Deep Insights and Actionable Strategies for Reliability Improvement and Savings in Our Changing World
DRˣ integrates outage event information, circuit / segment / asset data, and cost and work data from your enterprise systems with UMS Group’s proprietary databases and machine learning statistical models. It delivers deep analyses for insights across any combination of time, organizations, geographies, assets, weather, and new load profiles (i.e. due to electric vehicle expansion) to develop targeted improvement programs and plans.
DRˣ is a sophisticated analytic platform that helps executives, managers, and reliability engineers to manage key metrics reported to management and mandated by regulators. These capabilities enable more effective and timely decision making, improved reliability metrics, reduced O&M costs, as well as ensure of optimal allocation of spend and maximum value from investment.

DRˣ in a nutshell: Acquaint yourself with DRˣ with this short (1 minute) introductory video.
DRˣ – Taking You to the Next Level of Data-Driven Insights
The entire DRˣ platform is a highly flexible/configurable operational analytics tool suite built around pre-structured analytics based on industry best practices and benchmarks.
Reliability optimization functionality combined with AI and ML support predictive analytics in:
- Weather Vulnerability
- Storm Hardening Priorities
- Outage Forecasting
- Optimum Budget Allocation Across Reliability Improvement Programs
- Risk-based Allocation of Funding for VM, Inspections, and Other PM Work
Benefits of DRˣ
Examples of Value Achieved By DRˣ Users
DRˣ is Modular – Learn More About the Areas Most Relevant to You With a Use Case Available for Download

EXECUTIVE DECISION SUPPORT
DRˣ for Executive Decision Support
Critical Insights at Your Fingertips
Common Challenges
- Inaccessible, missing, and siloed data
- Data errors and gaps
- Custom queries and reports required from IT to compile data
- Significant effort and time to answer questions and calculate results
- Impatient executives and stakeholders who want answers yesterday
- As a result, decisions are often driven more by historical experience and anecdotes than by data

RELIABILITY OPTIMIZATION
DRˣ for Reliability Optimization
Target Each Dollar for Maximum Reliability and Customer Benefit
Common Challenges
- Utilities are under pressure to meet constant or tightening targets under changing conditions and don’t have the tools to prove how regulatory framework changes would be mutually beneficial to the company, regulator, customers, etc.
- It’s difficult to pinpoint the specific circuits and segments for specialty programs and how much to spend
- Complex questions take a long time to answer, for example around forecasting to annual reliability targets and necessary reallocation of spend/resources and costs

SYSTEM RESILIENCY AND STORM HARDENING EFFECTIVENESS
DRˣ for System Resiliency and Storm Hardening Effectiveness
System Resiliency and Storm Hardening Effectiveness
Common Challenges
- Companies often aren’t sure what metrics to use to measure resiliency and storm hardening effectiveness
- Even with existing data sources, many companies struggle to determine how to use their internal data, ideally combined with external benchmarks, to calculate, model, and compare resiliency in a robust, defensible manner
- Given changing regulatory expectations, leading companies are looking for support from third party experts and/or other utilities in helping justify current performance and/or hardening investments, via data-driven resiliency reports and plans

WEATHER VULNERABILITY
DRˣ for Weather Vulnerability
Network Weather Vulnerability and Emergency Response
Common Challenges
- Utilities have been trying for years to harness weather and reliability data to predict outages and damage levels for storm preparation. Results using average weather data and simple outage statistics, even at the circuit level, are inadequate for the level of accuracy needed for solid predictions and improved response times
- Most companies plan conservatively, incurring higher costs, and then react post-storm to identified damage sites, rather than mobilizing crews and materials to the right locations pre-storm

ELECTRIC VEHICLE SYSTEM IMPACTS
DRˣ for Grid Mod/System Planning: Electric Vehicle (EV) Prophet
System Planning for Your Grid of the Future
Common Challenges
- Utilities are under pressure to develop integrated Distribution plans that enable constraint-free distribution networks with the ability to host an almost unlimited amount of DERs. This includes solar, and storage, wind, electric vehicles, etc.
- EVs, in particular, worry some utility executives because they know so little about where on their system these sources of significant incremental load are likely to appear, and when

ENHANCED CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
DRˣ for Enhanced Customer Experience
The Data You Need to Make an Impact
Common Challenges
- Valuable reliability data resources are inaccessible and siloed
- Reliability data can be utilized for so much more than reporting and compliance from a Customer Experience perspective
- Customer perception differs from fact (actual reliability)
- Customers are unaware of company initiatives and work to improve their reliability
- Lack of customer touchpoints
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