INFRA 2015
Titre anglais : Making Work Management Systems Work for You: The City of Bend Water Reclamation Facility Expansion Story (La conférence est en anglais).
Monsieur Kurt Vause a près de 17 ans d’expérience comme directeur de l’ingénierie de l’Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility (AWWU), où il est responsable du programme des immobilisations du service Strategic Asset Services and Planning. De plus, M. Vause est le cofondateur de StreamlineAM, LLC, une firme de consultant en services publics située en Alaska. Il a également déjà occupé les postes suivants :
- membre du conseil d’administration de la WEF;
- directeur de la section Alaska de l’AWWA;
- membre du Water Utility Council (WUC) de l’AWWA;
- vice-président du comité de gestion des actifs de l’AWWA.
Résumé de la conférence
The City of Bend, Oregon, USA undertook a Water Reclamation Facility Expansion. The project expands the existing facility with new secondary treatment, disinfection, and water reclamation process upgrades. The facility is a 15 MGD tertiary treatment facility that includes pumping facilities to enable water reuse of tertiary treated wastewater. This project created new assets which were loaded into the City’s INFOR work management system. This work was performed in conjunction with an Electronic Facility Management Information System (EFMIS) implementation.
The purpose of the project was :
- Validate applicable business objectives of City staff
- Validate business practices and workflow for Work Order processing
- Validate business practices and workflow for data maintenance & stewardship Create a new data structure – new and existing plant asset inventory Produce documentation – new and existing plant inventory
- Validate data structure
- Compile, load and validate data from that furnished staff or consultant
The work involved consolidation of field asset inventory efforts, SCADA system information, and current work management system assets into a new treatment unit process-based asset hierarchy. The system hierarchy was designed so data structure enabled future asset management analysis as well as ease of use by operations and maintenance staff. Integration points between systems were re-designed in order to have a logical, systematic hierarchy that provided Operations staff with a workable method to manage vital information about plant assets and their performance. The solution was tested with Operations staff, then placed into production. The project also included developing processes for automated loading of data into the work management system to populate asset-specific data related to plant maintenance procedures. It also was used as part of developing practical business processes for long-term data management purposes. The project also provides techniques to apply for other City assets to be incorporated in City-wide initiatives to improve asset management practices.