RESEARCH ARTICLE
Doing More with Less: Application to Transmission Structures
Marlon W. Vogt*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2017Volume: 11
Issue: Suppl-2, M5
First Page: 768
Last Page: 777
Publisher ID: TOCIEJ-11-768
DOI: 10.2174/1874149501711010768
Article History:
Received Date: 6/04/2017Revision Received Date: 10/03/2017
Acceptance Date: 1/06/2017
Electronic publication date: 15/10/2017
Collection year: 2017
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Introduction:
Common theme within the electric utility industry is doing more work with fewer resources. Shrinking staff resources and budgets create challenges in light of the continuing strong investment required for national lifeline infrastructure projects.
Methods:
The presentation will define and address one traditional type of waste – overproduction, particularly applied to the design of electric utility transmission structures.
Results and Conclusion:
It will illustrate a variety of typical design choices and the risks in making design decisions that result in larger than necessary, and thus more expensive, structures.