Water utilities consulting services | Assetivity

Ensure maximum value for your assets.

Water utilities are typically subject to pricing regulation and have to meet the expectations of their regulator in this area. All asset-related expenditure has to be justified, and penalties typically apply if customer service obligations aren’t met. Water utilities are also facing longer-term challenges relating to climate change, which impacts on their water supply, and community and government desire to reduce water usage, which in turn reduces revenues.

The reliability and availability of critical equipment is vitally important within the water utilities sector in order to ensure that customer supply and water quality obligations are met. The sector also faces unique challenges in that almost all pipework is buried underground which makes assessing its condition more difficult, and this in turn impacts on the accuracy of forecasts for maintenance and replacement of those assets. And sewerage treatment plants have their own unique environmental risks.

Asset management, maintenance and reliability are all vitally important to the water utilities sector, and the work that we have done for clients in this sector includes all of these subjects.

We have also delivered training in asset management, maintenance and reliability improvement to the water utilities sector.

Our clients

Some of our past and present clients within the water utilities sector include:

  • Aroona Alliance
  • Gladstone Area Water Board
  • Goulburn Valley Water
  • Greater Western Water
  • Queensland Urban Utilities
  • South Gippsland Water
  • Sunwater
  • Sydney Water
  • Unity Water
  • Water NSW
  • Water Corporation

Water utilities articles

Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Asset Performance Management (APM)…

Can you make sense of your asset related data? Can you use this data to optimise your business? Integrating data from the EAM system is not always smooth sailing.

Asset Performance Management (APM) – Key implementation issues and…

Let’s discuss the challenges that we have observed our clients struggle with as they have implemented their APM solutions, and how to avoid falling for these same traps.

What is an Asset Performance Management (APM) system?

What is an APM system, where does it fit in the Asset Management information system landscape, and what you should hope to achieve through implementation?

5 questions to ask before you adjust the frequency…

It can often appear that there is significant money to be saved by increasing the interval between shutdowns. Here are 5 key questions you should ask first.

Why should you use a Reliability Block Diagram during…

A Reliability Block Model (RBD) is a proactive tool that bridges engineering design with operational reality and which ensures that new plants are equipped to meet performance goals from…

How good is your materials catalogue?

To do maintenance effectively, we need to make sure we have the right quantities of the right spare parts and materials in the right place at the right time.

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