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Municipal Utilities
13069 Orono Parkway
Elk River, MN 55330
763.441.2020
Education / Seminar Report
Name: Troy Adams
Dates Attended: July 29, 2008
Date: August 5, 2008
Location: Brooklyn Park, MN
Title of education / seminar: Itron Metering and Automation Seminar
Organization Sponsoring Education / Seminar: Border States Electric / Itron
Why did the employee choose to attend?:
This was an excellent opportunity to keep current with ever changing metering
technology. Also, it was a chance to bring questions and comments to an open discussion
with other meter technicians and factory representatives.
What information was learned by attending?:
The Itron factory representative presented and took questions regarding their single-phase
and their new polyphase meters. Software limitations related to the new polyphase meter
were discussed and brought to the factory rep's attention. There was an overview of
Itron's Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) including the Mobile Collector add-on to the
new meter reading handheld ERMU purchased earlier this year. Also, the seminar
included a hands-on meter programming workshop with software updates.
Was information conveyed to supervisor and co-workers ant to who?:
Information from the seminar was discussed with Bryan Adams, Glenn Sundeen, as well
as continued discussion in the Meter Shop.
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Municipal Utilities
13069 Orono Parkway
Elk River, MN 55330
763.441.2020
Education / Seminar Report
Name: Adam Freiberg
Dates Attended: July 29, 2008
Date: August 5, 2008
Location: Brooklyn Park, MN
Title of education / seminar:_ Itron Metering and Automation Seminar
Organization Sponsoring Education / Seminar: Border States Electric / Itron
Why did the employee choose to attend?:
Keeping current with change's metering technology. Questions and comments were
discussed with other meter technicians and factory representatives.
What information was learned by attending?:
The Itron factory representative presented and took questions regarding their single-phase
and their new polyphase meters. Software limitations related to the new polyphase meter
were discussed and brought to the factory rep's attention. There was an overview of
Itron's Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) including the Mobile Collector add-on to the
new meter reading handheld and meter programming workshop with software updates.
Was information conveyed to supervisor and co-workers ant to who?:
The seminar was discussed with Bryan Adams, Glenn Sundeen, as well as continued
discussion in the Meter Shop.
Employee
Elk River, MN 55330
763.441.2020
Name: Michael Price
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Education / Seminar Report
Dates Attended: July 29, 2008
Date: August 5, 2008
Location: Brooklyn Park, MN
Title of education / seminar: Itron Metering and Automation Seminar
Organization Sponsoring Education / Seminar: Border States Electric / Itron
Why did the employee choose to attend?:
This was an opportunity to keep up with technology and discuss meter issues with other
meter technicians. It also was a chance to talk to factory reps.
What information was learned by attending?
We were able to find out about the new Centron polyphase meter, that we will be using.
We also learned more about our AMR metering.
Was information conveyed to supervisor and co-workers ant to who?:
Information from the seminar was discussed with Bryan Adams, Glenn Sundeen, as well
as continued discussion in the Meter Shop.
Employee