Welcome to the Siemens EMA Customer Association (SECA) User Group page. Siemens EMA is proud to sponsor SECA and provide this forum for user group news.
About SECA
Mission
The mission of SECA, as stated in the SECA Association by-laws, is to provide a communication vehicle between Siemens Energy Management & Automation(EMA), their customers, and third-party vendors with a Siemens EMA business relationship to benefit the membership and to improve EMA related product lines. This forum provides for requirements definition, problem solving, planning, and information sharing.
Goals
The goals of the SECA user group, as stated in the SECA Association by-laws, are to work with Siemens EMA to:
Promote establishment of user long-range energy management objectives
Resolve current hardware, software, and technical support problems
Recommend new hardware and software development
Promote future availability of upward-compatible state-of-the-art technology for (electric utility) energy management applications
Promote the exchange of ideas and user developed software/hardware among users
Support the promotion and implementation of Siemens EMA related systems
Membership
Who can belong to SECA? Membership is open to any Siemens EMA customer who has ordered or installed at least one Siemens EMA related product.
Attendance
Each SECA Conference is attended by eighty to ninety delegates representing electric utilities. Recent conference attendees represented utilities from:
Canada
Chile
Hong Kong
Hungary
Israel
Mexico
The Netherlands
Poland
Spain
United States
In addition, Siemens EMA personnel attend each conference, representing the following EMA organizations:
What Takes Place at a SECA Conference?
The conference is informal. Questions may be asked at any time. Problems for Siemens EMA are presented and openly discussed.
An opening and welcome session allows time to conduct business of the organization. New members and visitors are also welcomed and introduced.
The Siemens EMA update covers support issues, action items from the previous conference, new business, new products, and other Siemens EMA topics that do not require a full session.
At each conference, Siemens EMA will make one or two technical presentations. Technical presentations are also presented by various member utilities.
Joint presentations (Siemens EMA and a customer) are appropriate when the discussion requires the perspective of both Siemens EMA and the customer.
Site updates call for each utility to summarize their activities within the last six months. Problems, accomplishments, projects, questions for other members or Siemens EMA and other issues are highlighted. Note: Each utility is asked to bring a written site update to the conference that follows a SECA outline. Copies of these updates are available for all delegates. The verbal site update sessions are a summary of these written updates.
Depending on location of the conference, a site tour of a member utility's control center is offered.
A future conference planning session asks for session suggestions: - What can you as a Siemens EMA customer offer to present at the next conference? - What would you like to hear about from Siemens EMA?
Sometimes a roundtable discussion is scheduled. Several members and sometimes Siemens EMA get the discussion going on a topic of interest to electric utilities.
Standing Working Groups may be established to deal with a subject over a period of years. An example is the Advanced Applications Working Group. Working committees may be established to deal with a subject that generally lasts less than one year.
For more information on SECA and upcoming conferences, please contact Marketing at