Operational extensions to a power distribution design workstation for enhanced emergency restoration

A power distribution design engineering workstation is used as the basis for a restoration management system. The complete system contains three separate programs. The three programs are the Telephone Operator program, the additions to the design workstation, and the statistical collection program. The use of graphical interaction as a method of improving the restoration process will be presented. A method of contextual based editing is presented as an aid to the workstation based program. Records of the outages are kept by the system. The outage records are used to create statistical tables for the representation of each set of stored data.