
Goulburn Valley Water (GVW) operates 37 water treatment plants and 26 wastewater management facilities providing water and wastewater services to more than 130,000 people in 54 towns. Our operators use a couple of different work management systems (Focus and Aquantify) to capture the work done. These systems are being replaced by an Asset Management solution, Maximo.
To replace these systems with Maximo required two significant parcels of work. The first was to create the locations of all our assets in Maximo. The second was to copy the tasks that needed to be done from the old systems to the newly created locations in Maximo.
The GVW Assets team undertook the creation of the locations and within a couple of months had imported the almost 150,000 locations into Maximo. Where these locations related to treatment plants, workshops were held with operators to ensure the accuracy of the data and to begin the process of upskilling the operators in getting to know how Maximo would be structured. The input from the operators at this stage was invaluable and made the second stage of allocating tasks much more efficient.
Transferring the planned work from Focus and Aquantify to Maximo was done predominantly by the Service Delivery team. Once the tasks were in Maximo, operators played an important role in validating that the tasks were set up correctly and could actually be completed. They made sure the data could be entered, pre-set responses were appropriate and the locations were correct for the task. Their knowledge of the tasks they currently do was instrumental in helping shape what the Maximo solution should look like.
The aim is to also include as much safety information as possible into the Maximo environment so the operators can complete the data capture on a single device.
Author
- Daryl Bennett, Regional Operations Manager, Goulburn Valley Water