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Utilities face aging infrastructure, declining revenues, increasing regulations, and retiring workers—challenges that require them to plan and work smarter than ever before. But it’s a struggle because information and systems are disconnected.
At GE, we understand your challenges. Combining advanced technologies and deep industry know-how, our proven water-wastewater solutions drive greater efficiency, consistency and accountability throughout your operations. That's why thousands of utilities rely on us to help them drive intelligent water operations.
OF TAP WATER IS LOST IN DISTRIBUTION
UTILITIES FACE EVER-INCREASING STRINGENT REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
OF ALL ALARMS ARE NOISE
GLOBAL WATER USAGE HAS INCREASED SIX-FOLD SINCE THE LAST CENTURY
WATER-WASTEWATER UTILITY WORKERS ARE WITHIN RETIREMENT AGE
WATER-WASTEWATER UTILITIES SPEND MORE THAN $1B ON CONTROLS AND IT EVERY YEAR
Enter the world of water utilities: aging infrastructure, declining revenues, increasing service level expectations, and regulations. What's more, resources for water and wastewater capital programs are limited, making it difficult to carry out infrastructure modernization, expansion, and technology upgrades.
A modern control infrastructure is critical to drive information, uptime, flexibility and long equipment life throughout your operations. Our powerful lineup of high performance PACSystems controllers is rugged and reliable, featuring:
-High availability redundancy
-Expandable open architectures -Upgradeable CPU
And our distributed I/O utilizes PROFINET to maximize efficiency and data dissemination. It's designed to be ultra-fast and easy to set up. With this type of I/O flexibility, you can connect to a full range of I/O, from simple discrete to safety and process I/O to meet your needs.
Better visibility leads to better decisions. Our Proficy Historian is a powerful enterprise-wide data historian that collects, archives, and distributes tremendous volumes of data at extremely high speeds. It contains extensive security capability and reporting tools for better monitoring, control and regulatory compliance.
Historian and real-time data can be presented graphically with our Proficy HMI/SCADA – iFIX software so operators can visually monitor and control treatment processes and equipment. They can also trend operational and process data and monitor alarms for quick identification and resolution of issues. Like a window into your operations, it enables you to clearly see what's going on.
To truly understand your operations, you need to dig deeper into your data. Our Proficy Monitoring & Analysis software collects and analyzes data from water-wastewater treatment, pumping and other process and equipment. It helps make sense of the data, turning it into insight. You can optimize processes, troubleshoot process problems and monitor process health with our solution’s predictive analytics.
Plus, with Proficy Mobile, you can extend your control room with real-time operational intelligence (RtOI) on mobile devices. Operational data everywhere can be securely transformed into actionable knowledge, anywhere anytime. Imagine the information you need delivered intelligently to you in the right context, by role and location. That’s the power of Proficy Mobile.
Consistent and efficient operations are critical. As experienced operators continue to retire, you’ve got to mitigate the loss of institutional knowledge. You need to guide operators with information-rich, circumstance-based tools to ensure tasks are completed on time and the right way every time.
Our Proficy Workflow software enables every operator to be an expert. It captures and digitizes your work processes. It guides your operators with step-by-step instructions for each task and automatically walks them through corrective action. And it creates electronic standard operating procedures (eSOPs) to reduce variation in performance, cost, and quality.
How can you ensure timely and consistent problem resolution? How can you capture labor, equipment and material needed to complete the work? With our Proficy Workflow solution, you can connect your business platforms such as Computer Maintenance Management (CMMS) to automatically deliver eSOPs and Work Orders to operators.
GE solutions enable you to integrate your business and automation platforms to leverage their capability, lower operating costs, respond more quickly to changing needs, and ease training. You can empower operators to create solutions, without demands on IT. And replicate systems faster across your utility—lowering implementation costs, decreasing risk, and speeding completion time.
Improve your consistency, efficiency and accountability with GE solutions for water—enabling collaborative information with a holistic approach.
The Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association (PNCWA) is the preeminent state association dedicated to education, dissemination of technical and scientific information, increased public understanding, and promotion of sound public laws and programs in the water resources and related environmental fields in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
At WWAC2014, over 150 instrumentation, automation and SCADA professionals came to a packed house to share ideas, learn, and network.
40+ professionals from water/wastewater utilities attended full-day cyber security and hands-on instrumentation and control troubleshooting course
Over 30 technical presentations and speakers. CEUs and PDHs certificates for all attendees.
Save the date for next year: August 4-6, 2016 at the Wyndham Lake Buena Vista Resort in Orlando, Florida
Conference Information
Cincinnati, Ohio will host a joint IWA International Conference on "Water Efficiency and Performance Improvement: Smart Strategies for the 21st Century".
Cincinnati, Ohio will host a joint IWA International Conference on the topics of Water Efficiency and Performance Assessment of Water Services. We invite you today to mark your calendars and visit one of the most wonderful cities in the United States of America.
Control and monitoring solution saves time and money for rural wastewater utility.
