Water asset management

You are highly dependent on the performance of your physical assets. They must be maintained to improve their longevity, meet appropriate levels of safety and ensure you comply with regulatory pressures. Your challenge is to maintain suitable performance levels from your assets while optimising the balance between capital and operational expenditure. Having the right data to allow you to make risk-based decisions and ensure that time and money are not wasted is crucial. We can help you.

MARKET CHALLENGES

  • Targeted capex and opex spending: With limited capital (capex) and operational (opex) expenditure budgets, water companies need to make hard decisions about where to spend their money. You need information on the performance of assets, their condition and the likelihood of failure. Only then can risk-based decisions be made to allow limited funds to be targeted effectively.
  • Repair and maintenance on distributed assets: With miles of pipes, and thousands of assets spread across remote locations and sometimes hostile environments, managing the repair and maintenance of your infrastructure is a complex task. You must co-ordinate the efforts of multi-party field teams, and other resources, across a large region so that they all come together and complete the job on time, at the lowest cost and with minimal disruption to customers.
  • Data management: Accurate data is the lifeblood of asset management. High quality data needs to be collected from remote locations and stored in an asset repository to allow asset managers to make the right decisions. Similarly, appropriate data must be made available to the field staff that work on your infrastructure.
  • Safety considerations: This is a health and safety conscious industry; lone workers operating in difficult environments have to be protected. You should know exactly what type of environment your staff are operating in so they can work safely and cost effectively. Mistakes are not an option.
  • Operational challenges: Your SCADA system can keep your water plants running efficiently, monitor your operational status, control your processes remotely and feed information back to the main systems. The challenge is to get the most out of this very valuable data source. Many water companies are continuing to use SCADA for the tasks for which the systems were originally designed, without realising that the data can be used to inform and improve other business processes.

Targeted capex and opex spending: With limited capital (capex) and operational (opex) expenditure budgets, water companies need to make hard decisions about where to spend their money. You need information on the performance of assets, their condition and the likelihood of failure. Only then can risk-based decisions be made to allow limited funds to be targeted effectively.

THE LOGICA SOLUTION

Logica has extensive asset management skills and over 25 years of specific water industry expertise to offer you. We can extend the life of your infrastructure and save you money by providing consultancy and systems which allow you to manage your assets more effectively. We are also leading the field with our work in smart metering, the use of GIS and geospatial technology, and SAP integration – meaning you can partner with a team who are at the forefront of their game.

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