The main components of the Municipal Assistant™ include sofar a series of modules that are generically developed based on the needs on the ground in the water sector, as well as a set of operations management reports.
Published on: 08/04/2011
The main components of the Municipal Assistant™ include a series of modules that are generically developed based on the needs on the ground in the water sector, as well as a set of operations management reports.
The modules are:
There are various operation and management reports generated by the eWISA Municipal Assistant™ to help in the day-to-day management of water and wastewater treatment facilities. These reports have been developed at the request of the operational people to help them to motivate for their fair share of the municipal budget and to help in the day-to-day management of water and wastewater treatment facilities. These reports have also been developed at the request of the operational people who have seen the system and who have worked with the system over the last years.
1. Inventory Report
This is a list of all the items that have been entered into the system and identifies their location, the date of purchase, the age and their cost. The cost of each item is also updated by using the Consumer Price Index which automatically adjusts the price to reflect a probable updated price.
2. Life Span Report
The system will generate a list of all items at the water care works and records the age of each item and whether it has reached a stage where it should be replaced or at least critically evaluated for replacement. This allows the manager to inform the municipal manager that a plant needs to be replaced and the costs can be timeously placed on the budget.
3. Equipment Assessment Report
This is a most useful report which can be generated at any interval to inform the water care plant manager of the items that are “in use”, “spare”, “on-loan”, or “not applicable”. It also gives information about the condition as being “OK”, “Out of Order”, “Requires service”, or “not applicable”.
4. Budget Report
The system also has the ability to produce a Budget for the Water Care Plant. The projected costs of any maintenance that has been specified can be transferred to a budget period which has been included to help the water care manager set out the operational costs of managing the plant over that specified budget period. All items that are required for the operation of the Works are added to the budget and not only the maintenance items, for example the costs of administration, spares, equipment, consumable stores, chemicals and instrumentation
5. Job Cards
The system will generate a job card based on the requirements that have been loaded. The information on the job card will include the item, where it is situated, who is responsible, the work that needs to be done and the projected cost of the maintenance. Once the job has been completed, the job card is signed off, the actual cost is recorded and the information is recorded on the system.
6. Compliance Reports
They are set up to report the effluent analyses in the format required by the DWA Regional offices. The report effectively takes the waste discharge analyses information collected in a monthly period, averages the results and sets this all out in a format which can be emailed of faxed.
7. Inspection Reports
There are various process inspection reports that have been designed for various generic processes. Examples are the Weekly WWTW Inspection, Monthly WWTW Inspection, Oxidation Ponds Inspection and the Water Treatment Works Inspection Reports. These are all automatically filed on the system so that reference can be made to them at any time.
8. Incident Reports
These are in a simplified generic format which helps the process controllers identify the real issues surrounding an incident and the actions that need to be taken to rectify the situation.
9. A check list and full report
These can now be produced to support the DWA’s Blue Drop –Green Drop initiative.
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