01.15.24 -- Asset Management Spotlight

ABB’s Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya explains how ABB’s digital suite connects the physical and digital worlds to help industrial players better manage their installed base of instrumentation devices and get better actionable insights that lead to increased efficiency and environmental benefits.

For water managers, getting visibility into their distribution system through historical data offers a better understanding of which pipes are most likely to break, thereby making it easier to plan to make repairs before they become emergencies.

The more a water distribution or wastewater collection operation knows about its infrastructure, the better equipped it is to optimize performance, maximize asset life, and prioritize long-term capital investment. Here is a breakdown of enterprise asset management (EAM) opportunities and the advantages they offer — from more timely data collection to more in-depth cost analysis and more cost-effective decision-making.

Properly executing pressure management can attack pipeline failures on two fronts by avoiding high pressures that exacerbate the problem and by providing the operational awareness needed for managing the most vulnerable spots. The insight provided by newer solutions helps accomplish this by going beyond advanced metering infrastructure as part of the building blocks for a smart utility network.

It appears that asset management and stormwater are two topics that rarely come together and yet they seem like they would be a natural fit. The ISO 55000 Asset Management Standard applies to both intangible and tangible assets, so why not natural and built? Can we apply asset management principles to Mother Nature? Yes, we can, through green infrastructure.