Emerson’s AspenTech Digital Grid Management products help utilities run safer and smarter transmission and distribution networks—spanning SCADA, EMS, ADMS, DERMS, and Cimphony Network Model Management. Their tools strengthen CIM-based interoperability by validating, synchronizing, and governing network models as a trusted “single source of truth” across planning and real-time operations. With open APIs and model-driven workflows, Digital Grid Management supports grid modernization and helps the industry turn complex grid data into consistent, actionable intelligence.
Operationalizing CIM for Utilities
Why Electrical Network Model Management is the Backbone of Digital Grid Operations
By Arnaud Gredin & Jim Whittle
Accurate electrical network data is the foundation of reliable grid operations—and even a single wrong connection or attribute can ripple into planning errors and real-time missteps. CIM improves interoperability and helps expose inconsistencies, but strong outcomes still depend on disciplined validation, governance, and publishing of trusted models through Network Model Management (NMM). By managing model types, lifecycle states (planned, under construction, as-built), and system hierarchies, NMM enables teams to work in parallel while ensuring only verified network models flow downstream into ADMS/DERMS and planning tools.
An Expert Interview with Alan McMorran: Network Model Management
Energy systems are changing fast, and utilities are being pushed to operate with far better visibility and control than ever before. In this Aberdeen episode, Ryan Duff speaks with Alan McMorran—Senior Director of Digital Grid Management at Emerson’s Aspen Technology business—about what the energy transition is demanding from the grid and the tools needed to keep pace.
They dig into network model management, why trusted network data matters, and how earlier work on outage-reporting technology for SSEN in northern Scotland showed the real value of real-time, crowdsourced insight. With generation and consumption shifting in every direction, the conversation points to one conclusion: tomorrow’s grid has to be built for adaptability and resilience.
Ameren's Distribution Grid of the Future Vision with Advanced Network Model Management
Ameren (serving 2.5M electric and 900k natural gas customers in Missouri and Illinois) shares how it’s advancing its “distribution grid of the future” by using AspenTech Cimphony Network Model Manager to create an enterprise-wide single source of truth for network data and better unlock the value of its ADMS. The on-demand webinar highlights Ameren’s strategy for managing growing distribution complexity as DER integration accelerates, and what’s next in their grid modernization roadmap.
Turning Grid Data Chaos into Clarity with Network Model Management
This on-demand AspenTech webinar explains how Network Model Management (NMM) helps utilities and grid operators replace inconsistent, siloed network models with a single source of truth across planning and operations. It covers what an NMM system is, key utility use cases, and why it’s essential for confident decision-making as grid complexity increases.
Enterprise Network Model Management: The Backbone of Transmission Grid Digital Transformation
By Arnaud Gredin & Jim Whittle
Transmission utilities can’t afford “model drift” across planning, SCADA/EMS, markets, and asset systems—because one inconsistency can cascade into reliability risk, compliance headaches, and slower response during abnormal conditions. Enterprise Network Model Management brings those models into a domain-aware, CIM-based system that validates changes before they’re committed, synchronizes updates across tools, and maintains traceability over time. With open APIs, version-controlled workflows, and built-in analytics/validation, utilities can move from fragmented data practices to a resilient foundation for digital operations, renewables integration, and what comes next.
About Digital Grid Management
Digital Grid Management (DGM) is part of Aspen Technology, the industrial software business within Emerson (NYSE:EMR). In Fall 2024, Aspen Technology acquired Open Grid Systems providing robust Network Model Management technology supporting the IEC CIM standard. With over 30 years of leadership in Operational Technology (OT) for the utilities industry, DGM’s transformative solutions, including SCADA, ADMS, OMS, DERMS, EMS, GMS, Gas Pipeline Management, Network Model Management, Microgrid Management, and CHRONUS Historian serve more than 450 Utilities worldwide. Digital Grid Management is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has a global team of over 1,100 employees.
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