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• Read The Machine Learning And Predictive Analytics Guidebook For Water Engineers

  Water utilities have no shortage of data – real time and historical. Learn how you can optimize your processes with analytics and turn raw data into real-time value with Digital Twin technology.

• Is Your Network Model Ready For Digital Transformation And Grid Modernization?

  Traditional ways of operating in siloed departments are no longer sufficient. If you lack a single, current network view and cannot integrate it across the organization--everything you do becomes more expensive and time-consuming.

• Greater Operator Efficiency In Water And Wastewater

  How can you address critical challenges in the world of water utilities while delivering the best return on investment to ratepayers or private sector investors? Chances are, you cannot easily raise water and sewer rates or purchase new equipment.

  The good news is the technology and solutions are here. They revolutionize what's possible for water and wastewater utilities.

• Cincinnati’s “Smart Sewer” Reduces Overflows And Cuts Costs

  The Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati needed to increase existing sewer system efficiency to address a federal mandate to keep raw sewage mixed with stormwater out of waterways when it rains. Here's how they did it.

• Customer Success Stories In Water & Wastewater

  Welcome to the modern HMI/SCADA system—where machines, data, insights, and people are connected. See how GE Digital customers have improved operator response, adhered to regulations, and reduced costs.

• Region Of Waterloo Streamlines Water System To Ensure Highest Quality

  The Regional Municipality of Waterloo’s Water Services department is working with GrayMatter, a GE Digital partner, to develop and implement an iFIX SCADA upgrade program designed to modernize the Region’s infrastructure and operating methods. In some cases, equipment manufacturers have phased out hardware or software. Other systems lacked industry-standard features or the ability to leverage best practices from industry standards bodies such as ISA. The Region pursued the project to maintain or improve regulatory compliance and provide water that meets the highest quality standards for its service area.

• Ensuring Water And Wastewater Resiliency During The Pandemic

  According to the American Water Works Association (AWWA), with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic impacting communities throughout the world, water professionals are working around the clock to ensure that safe, reliable water service continues to flow. But what if many of these essential employees now must work from home or only minimal crews are on-site at the plants?

• Enabling High Performance For Water/Wastewater Ops

  If you’re a utility operator, then you’ve probably been working with the same HMI screens for over a decade. However, you now have the opportunity to update the entire SCADA system, including all the screens based on the ISA 101 and high performance HMI standards. Are you scared of change and being phased out?

• The Fountain Of Youth For The Aging Industrial Infrastructure, Part 1

  Today’s plants face a multitude of challenges. With growing concern over the knowledge transfer as a generation of workers retire, there are also aging infrastructures, greater productivity challenges and tighter budgets to consider as profitability pressures rise. What’s more, with budget restrictions, resources for plant systems are often limited, making it difficult to carry out infrastructure modernization, expansion, and technology upgrades.

• The Fountain Of Youth For The Aging Industrial Infrastructure, Part 2

  With an aging industrial infrastructure, it’s difficult to meet your daily challenges. As Part 1 of this series reflected, it’s time to tap into the Fountain of Youth and cost effectively modernize. To get started, here are 10 tips for modernizing your HMI/SCADA.

• Busting Myths About High Performance HMI

  The human brain is remarkable. When we process visual information, our mind arranges what we are seeing for understanding, rather than offer a simple reflection of what is shown. However, our ability to do this breaks down when presented with imagery that is overly complex, uses too many different colors and provides no focal point or logical flow. 

• Sabesp Modernizes SCADA Using iFIX And Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)

  Sabesp is the fourth largest water and wastewater company in the world, responsible for assisting more than 27 million people in 373 cities in the state of São Paulo, the richest Brazilian state. Baixada Santista Business Unit is responsible for the services at 9 cities in the south coast of the state of São Paulo, assisting 1.8 million residents and up to 4 million people including tourists during summer season.

• High Performance HMI: Practical Lessons For Getting Started And Leveraging Data

   With so much money being spent on collecting data, why aren’t organizations better utilizing it?

• Smooth Sailing At Bloomington/Normal Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant

  When the Bloomington-Normal Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant won a 2018 Plant of the Year award from the Illinois Association of Water Pollution Control Operators, team members were ecstatic. Randy Stein, executive director and sports fan, likened it to winning the “Stanley Cup of wastewater.” On its way to the award (in Group 1 for plants larger than 7.5 mgd), the plant racked up 12 consecutive Gold Peak Performance Awards from the National Association of Clean Water Agencies. 

• High Availability, Connected Control Solution Virtually Eliminates Downtime

  Mekorot, Israel sought to reduce production costs through improved energy efficiency and tighter process control. They leveraged GE Digital's software and automation solutions to automatically monitor and control devices. 

• Sanasa Reduces Maintenance With 24/7 Remote Access To iFIX SCADA System

  Sanasa is the company responsible for water supply and sewage services in the municipality of Campinas in Brazil. Sanasa uses iFIX HMI/SCADA from GE Digital for supervisory control and works with GE Digital partner, Aquarius Software. For remote access, Sanasa employs iFIX in conjunction with Microsoft's remote access solution, Remote Desktop Services (RDS), formerly called Terminal Services (TS). This combination facilitated the use of the supervision system, from operators to system administrators.

• Too Many Alarms? It's Time For SuperSCADA!

  For operators, a SCADA is their Decision Support system. If viewed that way, your SCADA should be the foundation of an efficient operation.

• The Connected Worker: Solving Challenges In Water And Wastewater

  Learn how to improve operator efficiency and speed the right response with this 40-page HMI/SCADA guidebook for water and wastewater.