Hey, you got your AMP in my CMMS! - Two great programs that work great together.

A sanitary district in Northern California's East Bay area provides wastewater collection and treatment services to approximately 471,000 people. The utility collects and treats an average of 45 million gallons of wastewater per day and produces nearly 600 million gallons of recycled water annually with a budget of $124 million (FY15-16). Their most recent biennial Strategic Plan for 2014-2016 introduced a new initiative to facilitate achieving their goal to “Maintain a Reliable Wastewater Infrastructure.” The primary strategy for this goal is to establish an Asset Management Program (AMP). This involved first developing an Asset Management Policy followed by enhancing their Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) to support their AMP needs.Carollo Engineers worked closely with this utility to develop an Asset Management Implementation Plan. This plan identified their areas of strength and areas for improvement along with a five-year plan for implementing the asset management program. “Knowledge of assets” was identified as one of the key improvement areas for the utility. This was due in particular to 1) the current software covering the collection system assets no longer being supported, and 2) the variability in applied data standards for the plant assets. Moving forward, the utility desired a single CMMS that would cover both plant and collection system assets while being flexible enough to accommodate the data needed for the AMP.This paper describes this utility's three-fold effort to simultaneously implement a comprehensive asset management program and launch a new “all-assets” computerized maintenance management system all while being engaged in producing integrated Wastewater Treatment Plant and Collection System Master Plans.