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Three-Day Power System Reliability Seminar

Available upon request General Reliability offers a customizable three-day power system reliability seminar covering reliability foundations, transmission and substation reliability, distribution reliability, SUBREL, DISREL, TRANSREL, practical case studies, and a Day 1 session on AI, reliability, secure local/on-premise workflows, and automating the automation.

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The seminar combines classical reliability concepts, practical utility case studies, and hands-on discussion of GR reliability programs:

Day 1 — Reliability Foundations and AI-Assisted Workflows

Reliability, availability, adequacy, security, and resiliency
Probability of events
Failure and repair models
Network modeling
Complex networks
Fault trees
Markov modeling
Computation of frequency and duration

One-hour special session — AI, Reliability, and Automating the Automation

What AI can and cannot do in engineering studies
Secure local/on-premise AI workflows for utilities
Private document search
Reliability-study review
Report preparation
SUBREL / DISREL / TRANSREL result interpretation
Connecting Excel, models, reports, files, and human engineering judgment
Privacy, security, reliability, and human oversight

Day 2 — Transmission and Substation Reliability

Transmission system reliability methodology
Reliability indices
Outage data
Reliability criteria
Outage cost
Utility transmission case studies
TRANSREL concepts and applications
Substation reliability methodology
SUBREL concepts and applications
Switching/restoration actions
Stuck breaker/device events
Common-mode outages
Load point and system indices
Utility substation case studies

Day 3 — Distribution Reliability and Practical Implementation

Distribution system reliability methodology
Historical and predictive reliability indices
Outage data
Customer impact
DISREL concepts and applications
Utility distribution case studies
Simple exercises and test problems
Organizing input data
Validating assumptions
Interpreting results
Identifying bad actors
Comparing improvement options
Preparing management summaries
Building repeatable reliability workflows

Customization

The seminar can be customized for utilities, consultants, infrastructure customers, software users, managers, or engineering teams. Hands-on training can be added for SUBREL, DISREL, and TRANSREL.

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