How To Right-Size Your Lift Station Without The 6-Month Wait

In Part 3 of the Get Pumped Up series, the spotlight is on speed: how utilities can identify and solve lift station inefficiencies without waiting six months for a redesign study. Many lift stations appear to be working fine—until real SCADA data is overlaid with pump curves. That’s when hidden inefficiencies become visible: oversized pumps running outside their optimal range, undersized wet wells triggering frequent cycles, and skyrocketing OpEx from energy overuse.

Traditionally, addressing these issues meant a lengthy, expensive process involving RFPs, consultants, and months of waiting. But with Autodesk’s Info360 analytics and Transcend’s generative design tools, utilities can now move from problem identification to conceptual redesign in a single day.

This new workflow enables teams to quantify inefficiencies, model multiple right-sized design options in minutes, and validate them against system models—without vendor delays or placeholder estimates. The result? Better performance, lower costs, longer equipment life, and faster decision-making.

Design is no longer a bottleneck. It’s a diagnostic tool—helping utilities prioritize upgrades, align capital spending, and act immediately on what the data already shows.