Power system data base management

In futurist Alvin Toffler's book PowerShift-Knowledge Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century, he describes the global shift in economic power that will favor those who successfully manage the information in the Information Age". Information management is a key to success in power syste ms asset management just as it is in all other economic endeavors. Much of the information which can be used to manage these assets is "tied up" in va rious applications software and unavailable to the asset manager as a manag ement tool. Other system information is available through the newest techno logies in microprocessor-based relays and meters, A data base management so ftware package can be developed which can capture this "tied-up" data and o rganize it for economic life analysis, market analysis, inventory control, planning and scheduling maintenance, and energy analysis. This paper descri bes a power systems data base management software package that can capture "tied-up" data in various applications packages and microprocessor-based me ters and protective relays.