Utility Management
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Predicting Asset Failure And Process Changes With Self-Serve Analytics
5/25/2021
Watch this AWWA webinar to see how water engineers can use self-serve analytics to solve their toughest challenges. Our hero of the show is a mid-sized water utility, that partnered with GE Digital to predict pump failure up to 16 days in advance, using Proficy CSense.
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GE Digital And AWWA: Creating Your Digital Plant
5/25/2021
Realize continuous improvement with centralized visualization, contextual data analysis, and modern HMI/SCADA. Learn how today’s digital plant and its connected workforce accelerate and sustain continuous improvement to drive greater productivity and efficiency, lower cost of ownership, and increase profitability.
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Busting Myths About High Performance HMI - It's More Than Grayscale
5/25/2021
Join the Region of Waterloo to learn how they unlocked significant value from High Performance HMI, and bust myths that this standard is limited to applying grayscale to screens. Explore how High Performance HMI drove meaningful improvements across their organization including reducing training time for new operators, standardizing high-performance graphics across multiple divisions, and empowering operators with contextual information to act quickly, whether in the operations center or in the field.
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The Fountain Of Youth For The Aging Industrial Infrastructure, Part 2
5/25/2021
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.
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The Fountain Of Youth For The Aging Industrial Infrastructure, Part 1
5/25/2021
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.
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High Performance HMI: Practical Lessons For Getting Started And Leveraging Data
5/25/2021
With so much money being spent on collecting data, why aren’t organizations better utilizing it?
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Busting Myths About High Performance HMI
5/25/2021
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.
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Enabling High Performance For Water/Wastewater Ops
5/25/2021
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?
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Cincinnati’s “Smart Sewer” Reduces Overflows And Cuts Costs
5/25/2021
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.
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Smooth Sailing At Bloomington/Normal Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant
5/24/2021
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.