City of Corvallis, Oregon
The City of Corvallis (City) is actively trying to move away from a reactive to a proactive state of management. To do this, they have incorporated the concept of asset management to not only identify assets currently needing maintenance and repair, but also to project their future rehabilitation and replacement needs. The City started out by establishing an asset database foundation (i.e., asset register), assessing the current condition, documenting immediate and future needs, and performing life cycle analysis. Asset inventory and condition assessment were performed for all pump stations, lift stations, reservoirs, and water and wastewater treatment plants. For life cycle cost and risk analysis, the City utilized Kayuga’s IRIS. For each asset management system, IRIS was able to highlight the assets presenting the greatest risk to the City and the estimated budget required to address it.
Risk analysis for the City’s water and wastewater treatment plants presented a particular challenge. Through an interconnected network of processes and assets, treatment plants have redundancy engineered into the design. Redundancy helps to reduce the overall risk exposure for each asset, and it is very difficult to calculate how much redundancy is available at the asset level for a treatment plant. In order to properly account for the level of redundancy, Kayuga utilized IViewOps (Intelligent View of Operations) to model the treatment process and calculate the availability of redundancy at the asset level. Use of IViewOps greatly increased the confidence of risk assessment at the treatment plant.
Using the results of IRIS, the City was able to educate, document, and justify the infrastructure needs to the public and the decision makers. With justification, the managers were able to receive greater funding through the Council to help address the infrastructure needs.
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Risk analysis for the City’s water and wastewater treatment plants presented a particular challenge. Through an interconnected network of processes and assets, treatment plants have redundancy engineered into the design. Redundancy helps to reduce the overall risk exposure for each asset, and it is very difficult to calculate how much redundancy is available at the asset level for a treatment plant. In order to properly account for the level of redundancy, Kayuga utilized IViewOps (Intelligent View of Operations) to model the treatment process and calculate the availability of redundancy at the asset level. Use of IViewOps greatly increased the confidence of risk assessment at the treatment plant.
Using the results of IRIS, the City was able to educate, document, and justify the infrastructure needs to the public and the decision makers. With justification, the managers were able to receive greater funding through the Council to help address the infrastructure needs.
See a list of all of our clients here.