SCADA and Automation Solutions and Insight For Utility Managers

1. The Best Tool For Training Junior Wastewater Engineers 4/12/2022

   Hiring, onboarding, and training new employees can be a daunting undertaking, especially when it comes to junior engineers. Now there is a tool to improve outcomes, reducing the learning curve, and assist in junior engineer development.

2. How To Leverage Water Data To 'Make Your Case' 5/24/2019

   Efficiently managing potable water treatment and distribution or wastewater collection and treatment involves many moving components, not the least of which are cost implications. If only there was a way to quantify and analyze those factors to leverage them for better decision-making. There are, and they reach far beyond tactical treatment plant adjustments, all the way up to strategic decisions as well.

3. Keys To Mastering Pump System Maintenance 9/11/2018

   It has long been established that predictive maintenance of existing equipment will reduce operating costs and help ensure safe operation.

4. 'Smart Water' Benefits Without 'Big Data' Intimidation 3/31/2020

   For water treatment plants (WTPs) and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) pressured to do more with their data despite being pinched by a tight budget and a need to retrain employees, a new strategy can make all the difference. Here is how one such approach makes ‘smart water’ analytics less intimidating and how it has helped one utility make more cost-effective decisions while saving precious time and money.

5. Combining Spatially Contextualized Assets And Real-World Building Spaces Enables A Vertical Asset Management Program 11/2/2020

   Raleigh Water provides water and sanitary sewer services to about 198,000 metered customers and a service population of about 600,000 across a service area of 277 square miles. Raleigh Water's mission is to provide safe, sustainable water services for its customers while protecting public health and contributing to the economic, environmental, and social vitality of the utility's communities. Raleigh Water's system is made up of over 2,500 miles of sewer mains and over 2,350 miles of water mains. Raleigh Water operates two water treatment facilities with a maximum capacity to treat 106 million gallons per day, and three wastewater treatment facilities with a maximum capacity to treat 80.2 million gallons per day.

6. A Family-Owned Company Changes The Lives Of Communities In Need Using OpenFlows 3/30/2023

   Learn about the father-son owned firm, TSA, that designed a modern sewage network to help address water quality issues. 

7. AEGEA Improves Water Quality And Asset Management Decisions With Digital Twins 8/24/2022

   Read how OpenFlows WaterSight helped a Brazilian utility improve leak detection and optimize operational workflows. 

8. Arcadis Completes Hong Kong MTR Extreme Weather & Climate Change Impact Study With InfoWorks ICM 4/8/2021

   Arcadis was commissioned to support this client’s long-term resilience investment strategy by using catchment-level hydraulic modeling and holistic risk assessment. The work assessed flood risks arising from extreme weather events.

9. What Pumps Tell Us About Water, Power, And The Worker 10/10/2017

   High up in the Tehachapi Mountains of California’s Central Valley lies the largest consumer of the state’s electricity, driving 14 centrifugal pumps, each rated at 80,000 hp.

10. Sticking With Innovation That Works: Steinbach, Manitoba's Plant Upgrade 2/16/2017

    Steinbach is the third largest city in Manitoba and one of the fastest growing census agglomeration areas in Canada with a population of about 50,000 people. Though Steinbach is primarily an agricultural community, it is also the regional economic hub of southeastern Manitoba. Due to the age of the wastewater control system, the city decided it was time for some new technology. This profile will describe the process of that upgrade and why they chose VTScada.