Northern Water Authority Strive Excellence with Command Centre Solution
Water
Managing water supply is a critical responsibility, water is a resource that is needed all the time by everyone on daily necessities. Every day, our client has to make sure the water extraction, treatment & distribution are running in good condition and to ensure water supply has to be readily available.
While minimizing service interruptions and development, the Northern Malaysia water authority must consistently plan and implement strategies and upgrades to ensure the sustainability of water supply in the future.
Challenge
With geographical limitation and population growth, it is obvious industrial water demand is increasing. The water authority realized to herald the beginning of the new era for sustainable, innovative, and professional water supply management. As they realized, they do not have a centralized SCADA system to visualize and monitor the overview of the water supply scheme.
- No water demand data indicates either oversupply / lack of supply water in the region.
- No clear information about water network behaviour in terms of water pressure and water flow to consumers.
- Lack of real-time simulation for planning maintenance work or unplanned maintenance that raise.
- Lack of information and awareness to trigger the operator to act before any issue raised.
Solutions
As part of the water authority’s commitment for continuous improvement in water supply, we have converted the problems into solutions with AVEVA System Platform solution under two phases.
- Provide a proactive and predictive system to monitor and analyze accurate measurement of water production input & output
- Provide forecasting system tracking to monitor and ensure speedy pipe repair, manage any active leakage control
- Increase visibility and control with an overview on reading accuracy, reading & calibration
- Increase coordination and communication between departments & operators with digitalize workflow software
- Implement the water network diagram – to give consumers a full illustration of the trunk main network
- Provide forecasting dashboard of water demand and to track aging of water network in the whole main network
- Provide validation and field test for the trunk main network.
Result
The real-time and historical systems now allow our client to control and monitor their water treatment plant production effectively. The allocation would be utilized to improve assets’ reliability and resilience, as well as operational efficiency. The system brings them operational efficiency:
- Aware of the any issue /problem is raised.
- More effective on coordination & communication when issues are raised.
- Effective decision-making with accurate data to support.
- Maintenance and scenario planning efficiently.
- Dashboard for asset performance and availability.
