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AWWA ACE58173
- EAM Software Solutions for Optimization of Operations and Maintenance Activities
- Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 06/15/2003
- Publisher: AWWA
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Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solutions offer tremendous business benefits in theirability to help organizations drive maximum value out of their assets. This entails maintaining alevel of reliability that will enhance company operations, decreasing downtime, optimizingand reducing inventory levels, taking advantage of the latest purchasing and accountingpractices to minimize costs and processing time and other benefits designed to enhanceoperation.The EAM solution not only organizes maintenance-related activities and manages costsbut also provides a valuable reporting tool that is used to answer queries and requirements fromthe various governing and regulatory institutions. Preventive and corrective maintenance actionscan be easily retrieved to support compliance to the Clean Water Act, the various US Environmental Protection Agencystandards and even GASB 34 requirements.This paper presents some major benefits to be derived through the use of anEAM solution. Plant management, regulatory organizations and key plant personnel will all haveaccess to information which is presented in a more orderly and accurate manner. Some keyfeatures of EAM applications are also discussed to give the audience some benchmarks tomeasure against when shopping for the system that they will utilize.