The utility industry provides electricity, gas and water services to residential, commercial and industrial customers – always with an eye toward the bottom-line. As competition increases, the industry must continually offer more customer-oriented services while still increasing productivity, reducing costs and responding to changing regulatory requirements.

InSource Solutions provides products and services that can help automate and integrate operations, processes and communications that support the specific needs of utility companies. InSource can help plan and implement a comprehensive technology solution to improve reliability, decrease downtime, optimize supply capacity, and meet regulatory requirements.

We’ve helped businesses — like yours – to:

• Efficiently use energy through power monitoring and optimization
• Meet compliance requirements through regulatory reporting
• Maximize production capacity through smart asset use

Efficiently use energy
Through careful monitoring of plant-wide power system and related processes, electric, water and gas companies can achieve significant operational control. We help empower your business to gain this control by applying best-of-breed products and professional services that:

• Increase yields and minimize costs through meticulous, real-time monitoring and quality controls
• Ensure that proper procedures are being followed
• Enable control functions to feed into a common platform that communicates with a plant-wide energy management system

Regulatory reporting
The utilities industry must meet regulatory reporting requirements quickly and cost-effectively to achieve operational compliance and control. InSource products and services enable utility companies and municipalities to:

• Efficiently manage organization’s data, business processes, forms, and records
• Improve collection and maintenance of plant data
• Meet reporting compliance through data capture, integration, analysis, and reporting

Maximize production
To stay successful, businesses must maximize production and output – without compromising quality or control. Our team can help you visualize and design a road map to streamline production and process. By applying data capture and analysis tools, your automation environment can achieve:

• Enhanced efficiency of production processes
• Maximize production capacity through efficient use of fuels and energy sources
• Better management of power and energy usage
• Enhanced plant-wide communications
• Reduced costs

Streamline Communications for Better Control
Through a real-time exchange of information between remote devices and business systems, utilities companies and municipalities can manage assets and network operations more efficiently, maximize their investments and increase their ROI on the regulated side of the business, while generating new revenues from deregulated, value-added services.

InSource can help you answer these critical questions, and more:

• How do you get your arms around what you really need, and evaluate your options for automation, performance monitoring and reporting?
• What new plant information solutions, features, benefits and options are available? Will they integrate and collaborate with my existing legacy systems?
• How can I obtain a roadmap for implementation and be assured of its execution?
• What software and hardware solutions are available to enhance my existing intelligence systems, while being flexible enough to respond to future needs?

InSource Solutions – Plant Intelligence Solutions
Thousands of software and hardware solutions exist on the market today to help utilities gain better control of their processes, infrastructure, information systems, environmental management, and remediation and assessment of existing resources.

InSource can guide your business to the right mix of products and services to help you achieve your short-term goals — without compromising your long-term objectives. Whether it’s a point solution aimed at better control for one aspect of your operation, or a series of controls that provide you better oversight enterprise-wide, we help companies and municipalities achieve functionality, reliability and scalability.