Connect asset data across your grid so you can predict, prevent, and perform with confidence
Cascade is a utility asset management software that helps utilities take control of asset performance, risk, and reliability every step of the way. From real-time health insights to automated risk assessments, our data-driven tools empower your team to prevent outages, reduce maintenance costs, and extend asset life.
By centralizing asset lifecycle data, Cascade simplifies operations and provides a clear, accurate view for all stakeholders. No more chasing information across disconnected systems. Built-in compliance support and seamless integration with your enterprise platforms ensure you're always audit-ready and operating efficiently.
Whether you're managing transformers, breakers, batteries, or T&D line assets, facilities and beyond, Cascade turns complexity into clarity so you can deliver safe, reliable power, day after day.
Improve reliability and reduce unplanned outages
Make smarter, data-driven asset decisions
Streamline compliance and simplify operations
Cascade consistently automates monitoring your maintenance and testing program to help you focus on the activities that drive reliability and prevent costly unplanned outages due to asset failures
Boost reliability. Control costs. Deliver uninterrupted service
Keep your assets running smoothly with data-driven insights that help prevent unplanned outages and manage maintenance costs so you can ensure consistent, reliable power for your customers.
Automatically calculate and assess your asset risk, based on standardized and user-configurable formulas for asset Criticality, Health and Risk (CHR)
Automate health and risk insights to stay ahead of issues
Our built-in calculation engine automates asset health and risk assessments, helping you detect problems early and boost grid reliability before small issues become big ones.
User-configurable validation rules and calculations ensure recording of accurate data to drive regulatory compliance and confident maintenance and asset management decisions
Confident decisions start with better data
Improve utility maintenance planning and asset performance with high-quality, reliable data. Our tools help you prevent unplanned outages, optimize asset life, and make smarter, data-driven decisions.
Cascade is specifically designed for utilities operating electric grids while also supporting user-configuration of additional assets, providing a single source of truth for maintenance, compliance and asset management across departments
Simplify operations with a single source of truth
Eliminate the hassle of managing multiple data sources. Our centralized system brings all asset lifecycle data together reducing complexity, saving time, and ensuring clear, consistent access for your entire team.
Managing regulatory compliance with Cascade ensures utilities are audit-ready with greater confidence and lower cost. Flexible configuration allows users to adapt to changing regulatory standards, greatly reduces the effort to manage compliance evidence, helping avoid costly penalties and mitigation plans
Stay compliant with less effort
Meet regulatory standards with ease using streamlined tools for managing compliance activities and documenting evidence. Reduce risk, avoid penalties, and focus on delivering reliable, high-quality service to your customers.
Cascade integrates with leading EAM/ERP, work management, and GIS systems, to reduce information silos, while providing best-in-class asset, maintenance, work and inspection functionality and workflows for users in the office and the field
Seamless integration for smarter operations
Connect asset lifecycle data with your enterprise systems for a real-time, accurate view of your assets. Eliminate manual processes, improve efficiency, and empower stakeholders with the information they need. Our solutions offer turnkey integration with leading diagnostic, monitoring, EAM, ERP, FSM, and GIS systems plus support for custom connections.
Cascade consistently automates monitoring your maintenance and testing program to help you focus on the activities that drive reliability and prevent costly unplanned outages due to asset failures
Automatically calculate and assess your asset risk, based on standardized and user-configurable formulas for asset Criticality, Health and Risk (CHR)
User-configurable validation rules and calculations ensure recording of accurate data to drive regulatory compliance and confident maintenance and asset management decisions
Cascade is specifically designed for utilities operating electric grids while also supporting user-configuration of additional assets, providing a single source of truth for maintenance, compliance and asset management across departments
Managing regulatory compliance with Cascade ensures utilities are audit-ready with greater confidence and lower cost. Flexible configuration allows users to adapt to changing regulatory standards, greatly reduces the effort to manage compliance evidence, helping avoid costly penalties and mitigation plans
Cascade integrates with leading EAM/ERP, work management, and GIS systems, to reduce information silos, while providing best-in-class asset, maintenance, work and inspection functionality and workflows for users in the office and the field
Not a large utility? Cascade is built for you too
Cascade isn’t just for large utilities. Our platform is designed to meet the unique needs of member-owned and public utilities. From fast setup to secure, scalable asset management, Cascade helps you stay efficient, compliant, and in control.
FAQs on Cascade software for technical asset management and predictive maintenance:
Cascade is a technical utility asset management software solution. Designed as a system solely for electric utilities, Cascade provides Asset Health Index, Criticality Indexing and maintenance prioritization for substation, transmission and distribution system management.
Cascade acts as the single utility asset management system of record for all technical asset data, including nameplate, diagnostics, maintenance (including predictive maintenance and preventive maintenance), and operational stress.
Yes. We have customers that use Cascade for some aspects of the CIP standards (there are several). We are in active discussions with customers to understand how we can improve how Cascade can be more effective and efficient at contributing to your CIP compliance.
The Cascade software solution for electric utility asset management will interface with nearly all diagnostic systems available, including:
TOA Online
DTA Field
PowerBase
PI System
Using the Cascade Connect module, you can easily integrate real time operational stress and other tag data to Cascade from your SCADA historian.
The Cascade Connect module acts as an intelligent filter, bringing into Cascade only the monitoring information you deem critical to your utility asset management activities. This data is then analyzed in Cascade to create more accurate health and risk scores for your equipment fleet, as well as alerts, and maintenance triggers.
Cascade Connect supports AVEVA PI System.
Users of the Cascade software solution for utility asset management can work with DNV to create custom reports from any data available in the Cascade database. You can extend the value of Cascade data with Cascade Intelligence which allows you to process, analyse and visualize data from supplemental sources.
Cascade utility asset management software will integrate to any other enterprise systems.
The Cascade team has extensive experience integrating Cascade to other systems, including:
SAP
Oracle
Maximo
GIS
and others
Our Cascade Integration Architecture allows easy integration through ETL staging tables and future APIs.
The Cascade software solution for electric utility asset management is fully configurable.
Its flexible architecture allows power users to add triggers, plan preventive maintenance, create maintenance orders and alerts and define the parameters of any piece of equipment in the system.
Cascade utility asset management software has context sensitive help and user tutorials, along with user manuals.
SLA
With an annual Software License Agreement (SLA), we provide an online customer portal for users to submit questions and access other resources. Phone and email support is also provided as part of the SLA. You will also have access to the latest version of the software while on SLA.
Training
Additionally, we have private and public trainings on the application and technical domain specialist support services, and maintenance program configuration and process review.
