About Miner & Miner

Miner & Miner, Consulting Engineers, Inc. is a rapidly growing software development and engineering consulting firm that has become a major force in the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) industry. Miner & Miner has provided engineering services for the utility industry since 1946, and has been an ArcInfo, AM/FM/GIS (Automated Mapping/Facilities Management/Geographic Information Systems) implementor since 1986. Over the years, Miner & Miner has become an industry leader in AM/FM/GIS applications technology and is proud to supply superior software applications and services to energy utilities and municipalities around the world.

Within the industry, Miner & Miner has adopted the following philosophies for doing business:

In 1978, Miner & Miner recognized the need for Automated Mapping/Facilities Management (AM/FM) software applications and formed a Computer Products and Services Group. This group offered expanded services and products to meet clients' needs in the implementation and application of software, internal engineering support, and computer products and services development.

To further facilitate distribution of GIS solutions to utility industries nationally and internationally, in 1987 Miner & Miner formed a business partnership with ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute). Aided by this partnership, Miner & Miner has implemented AM/FM/GIS at numerous utilities in North America and in various countries world-wide. This experience places the Miner & Miner and ESRI team in a position to provide clients with well-planned, reliable, and cost-effective solutions to their business problems.

Today, Miner & Miner has a staff of over one hundred professionals who are dedicated to the design and implementation of ArcInfo-based solutions in the utility industry. This makes Miner & Miner's staff one of the largest application development staffs of its kind. Our professional team brings an unparalleled depth of expertise to the utility industry customer.

From high-end, integrated engineering design stations to small footprint, fast data browsers for the desktop, Miner & Miner applications have been designed and built to drive down business costs and improve organizational customer service. Taking advantage of the full extent of ESRI base GIS products, Miner & Miner applications offer a complete range of products from basic high-quality cartography to network analysis, allowing the operating utility to meet an increasing need for spatial information. Based upon Miner & Miner's depth of engineering and GIS experience, this offering is unique to the industry. It provides the foundation for AM/FM/GIS applications that can help a utility become competitive in today's marketplace, and allow it to maintain a leadership position in the marketplace of tomorrow.

Our Business Partner, ESRI

Beginning with a joint development relationship with ESRI in 1986, Miner & Miner has brought considerable expertise to the development and implementation of utility industry AM/FM/GIS applications. Miner & Miner is an equity partner with ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute). ESRI was founded in 1969 by Jack and Laura Dangermond, and is known as the leading GIS software developer in the world.

As a privately held consulting group in the '70s, ESRI focused on the development of fundamental GIS concepts and their application to real world problems. During the '80s, ESRI shifted its focus to building software tools and products, which resulted in the 1981 release of the first commercial GIS product, ArcInfo. When computer technology began to shift to UNIX, ESRI followed suit. ESRI developed formal ties throughout the '80s with many outstanding application developers and value-added resellers who created new applications, or combined ESRI technology with their data, hardware, and consulting services.

During the '90s ESRI firmly established itself as a market leader with the 1991 release of ArcView GIS, and successive releases of ArcData, ArcCAD, ArcSDE, ArcInfo for Windows NT, MapObjects, and Data Automation Kit. In 1997, ESRI embarked on an ambitious research project to reengineer all of its GIS software as a series of COM (Component Object Model) objects. Many years after its conception, ESRI realized the most significant GIS software product release to date: the December 1999 release of ArcInfo 8. This product family now provides users with a comprehensive set of GIS and mapping software options.

Miner and Miner Applications

The model and the application form a template that is modified and enhanced to provide a rapid and simple implementation for the client. This technique has been used by the Miner & Miner/ESRI team at major utilities in North America and throughout the world.

ArcInfo, AM/FM/GIS technology has grown and changed over the last two decades, driven by the needs and ideas of literally thousands of users. This experience has validated the idea that AM/FM/GIS technology can provide substantial benefits in an enterprise-wide solution.

Working together, Miner & Miner and ESRI have been responsible for a number of innovations directly related to the application of ArcInfo at utilities:

Miner & Miner and ESRI have dedicated themselves to continued development of ArcInfo to maintain its role as the world's leading AM/FM/GIS platform. The Miner & Miner staff of specialists provide system planning and automated systems experience, as well as offering expertise in a wide range of services and products. Miner & Miner is dedicated to the design, piloting, and implementation of AM/FM/GIS solutions based on ArcInfo technology.