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So You Have A SCADA System. What Is Next?
April 26, 2011
•Article: So You Have A SCADA System. What Is Next?
By: Grant Van Hemert, P.E., Schneider Electric Water Wastewater Competency Center
The term "green" has been used to refer to environmentally friendly products and procedures. Overall, we all know there are environmental and operational benefits to being green, but it can be difficult to figure out how to be green. To be truly green, a water and wastewater utility needs to figure out how to quantify current operations and provide a tool for projecting improvements. This, in a nutshell, is efficiency and effectiveness. Efficiency and effectiveness will tell a utility how much good water it is getting for its efforts and expenses.
Efficiency takes many forms – chemical efficiency, energy efficiency, and maintenance efficiency to name a few. Each type of efficiency, however, is interrelate, thus, adjusting for one type of efficiency could impact another type.
Effectiveness is the ability to quantify how you are doing compared to how you could be doing. Like efficiency, many interrelated activities can impact this factor.
By managing efficiency and effectiveness, all aspects of operations can be optimized to be as lean, and green, as possible. As costs for chemicals, energy, staff, and parts climb, optimizing will be critical.
So how is this done? Many facilities have a SCADA system, or an ODMS system as their highest level software. Neither of these is designed to find an operation's most efficient and effective operating point.
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