Massachusetts Town Selects Asset Management Solution

Jan. 21, 2015
The software will help plan & manage the town's sewer collection infrastructure improvement program

Innovyze announced that the town of Reading, Mass., has chosen InfoMaster Sewer software to help plan and manage its sewer collection infrastructure improvement program. The decision helps the utility leverage its investment in ArcGIS technology from Esri by enhancing it with a GIS-centric software platform for collection system capital planning and renewal.

Located 12 miles from the center of Boston, the town of Reading is responsible for maintaining and operating a municipal wastewater collection system comprising 100 miles of sewer mains and 12 pumping stations. It plans to use InfoMaster and InfoSWMM to create fully prioritized short- and long-term sewer main rehabilitation, replacement, maintenance and management plans and develop sound, cost-effective capital programs to support them.

“The combination of InfoMaster Sewer and InfoSWMM gives us a powerful risk-based asset management solution that will help us assess the condition and performance of our sewer assets more accurately than ever before,” said George J. Zambouras, P.E., town engineer. “It also gives us the critical information we need to prioritize and optimize our capital planning expenditures with a focus on solving our most critical sewer infrastructure problems, improving system performance, meeting regulatory compliance, and best serving our customers.”

Certified by NASSCO PACP, MACP and LACP V6.0, InfoMaster Sewer is the leading software choice for utilities faced with creating such plans, optimizing their infrastructures, and keeping them operating well into the future. It allows utilities to plan system improvements by scoring both the probability and consequence of failure for each underground asset. The assets that have the greatest likelihood of failure and the greatest consequences associated with the failure will be the most critical. Probability of failure is determined based on the pipe’s physical condition and location as well as its hydraulic performance characteristics. Consequence of failure ranking draws on such data as service to critical facilities, total flow carried, population served, adjacent vehicular traffic and other related geospatial factors. Assets that affect system operation normally rate high on the consequence scale, while assets in poor condition have a high probability of failure.

With InfoMaster Sewer, a utility can manage its entire underground infrastructure directly from the Esri geodatabase to deliver engineering productivity and network performance. InfoMaster Sewer includes direct support for gravity pipes, force mains, manholes, laterals, pump stations, closed circuit television (CCTV) inspections, manhole inspections, smoke testing, customer incidents and other field activities. Data can be read directly from an enterprise geodatabase; imported or linked to third-party ERP systems; or entered directly through the desktop, Web, or companion smartphone or tablet applications.

“Strong asset performance modeling and capital planning capabilities are critical components of a smart enterprise asset management strategy,” said Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D., BCEEM, NAE, Hon.D.WRE, Dist.D.NE, F.ASCE, president, COO and chief technical officer of Innovyze. “InfoMaster delivers detailed and accurate analyses and reports that help utility managers make better decisions on when to repair, replace, or rehabilitate their critical assets. It also supports them in developing reliable long-term funding strategies for such projects. These advantages help utilities ensure the long-term sustainability of their infrastructures and their ongoing ability to deliver the required level of service at the lowest lifecycle cost. Innovyze is proud to be a part of Reading’s success as a key component of this complex synthesis.”

Source: Innovyze

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