Accela GIS Version 7.0, showcasing “map bubbles” containing detailed asset management data and tasks.
Click here to enlarge imageThe specific solutions that the company will demonstrate at WEFTEC ‘09 include Accela Asset Management, a preview of Accela GIS Version 7.0, and the first public preview of the forthcoming Accela Mobile Office.
Accela Asset Management is an automated, Web-based, integrated asset and work management system that has been developed to provide water-distribution, wastewater-collection, and storm water management agencies with functionality for a range of tasks such as: tracking of work order history and costs; inventory and spare parts management; preventative maintenance schedules; inspections and investigations; and current and historical condition ratings.
Municipal water staff can track these same facets to assist with regulatory reporting and perform more intelligent maintenance analysis, whether on site or via CCTV. This ability leads to better scheduling of preventative maintenance. It also allows repair work and preventative maintenance to be combined into one work order or schedule in conjunction with labor and equipment availability.
Asset management software of this kind permits agencies to leverage any pre-defined asset inventories they may already have in place, without the need to build new categorizations from scratch. This means that current and future workers can find and access the same data how and when they need it.
The software also allows staff to monitor key performance indicators and real-time statistics for their water assets, providing more rapid and knowledgeable decision making and the ability to track each request for service through completion. For example, a water-related service request can be associated to one or many work orders, allowing for the full life cycle and cost of that request to be captured.
Accela GIS is designed to provide staff with direct access to geographic representations (via either agency- or Internet-based maps) of all infrastructure, land-use, zoning, work order, service request and inspection information. This augments efficiency by allowing staff to better understand their own location and those of nearby assets. Built-in routing capability allows maintenance crews to plot the shortest time or distance between their stops – saving fuel and improving response time. Accela GIS Version 7.0 is targeted for availability in early 2010 and will let users access all of their asset management data from within the Accela GIS map viewer.