Managing Vendor Issues on AMI Design

This document contains slides from a presentation on managing vendor issues in AMI design. It discusses the growing capabilities and stakeholders involved in metering technologies, from traditional meters to first generation smart meters. It emphasizes the importance of change management in AMI deployment to mitigate risks from new features, bugs, and constant improvements. Specifically, it recommends utilities take an active role in vendor qualification, certification testing, acceptance testing, and contract management to establish checks and balances as the industry rapidly advances metering technologies.