Operations Reporting Applications
A component of the OPERA Framework

Outage Reporting
The ORA Service Indices Form displays Industry-Standard
Statistical Reporting: CAIDI, SAIDI, SAIFI and ASAI




The Outage Archive Form references ORA’s
Feeder Inventory, to show number of
residential and commercial customers attached to any feeder.



Maintain equipment lists, and other system data
that appears in dropdown lists throughout the system.
ORA Users
DisCo Managers, Dispatch Supervisor Dispatchers, Distribution Engineering

ORA Functionality
ORA replaces manually-created spreadsheets or text documents and provides the added advantages of a database for long-term data storage and use. This can be especially helpful in the event of an audit or high-level request for outage information or analysis. ORA records all line and feeder outages, and is used to prepare individual outage profile or summary reports for selected periods, typically by month, or year. ORA is used to maintain a database of equipment outages. Flexible query and reporting capability makes this database useful for both engineering analysis and year-end reporting.

Application Architecture
ORA contains an equipment database that maintains standardized definitions of lines and feeders, and other relevant data used to log an outage. Lines are defined either by voltage levels (e.g. 69kV, 34kV) or by Feeder number. ORA’s Equipment Inventory enables reports that include the number and type of customers served by any feeder.

Ready to Grow
ORA is a subset of the functionality included in ASCE’s Device Management Application (DMA). DMA includes all the functionality and reporting for Outage archiving and analysis that ORA contains, but DMA goes on to include an ODBC link to the SCADA history database which enables advanced analysis of device loading throughout the system. DMA also includes additional equipment inventory, such as bus ties. See the DMA datasheet for more information.