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Every day The Team Thar operates and maintains rhe 330 mgd Union Park pump station in South Boston, Massachusetts, uses mobile technology in the form of hand-held tablets to enter data on checklist forms. This allows them to store runtimes and retrieve data for monthly reports.

The team members, who service nine other sanitary, stormwater and water pumping stations in the area ranging from 1.5 to 6.5 mgd, also enter corrective maintenance work orders through a mobile application on

The Fayette County Water System is an expansive one, providing service to Tyrone, Pcachtree City, Woolsey, Brooks, part of Fayetteville, and part of the unincorporated County, with its two plants, which have a total production capacity of 20.525 million gallons per day (MGD). So when Lee Pope, Water System Director, discovered that several of the System`s eight pumps were not operating as efficiently as needed, he decided the time was right to institute an asset management program that could

Brad Macek, assistant utilities director for the Port St. Lucie Utilities I >cpurlmcnt, recognized it was time to streamline a dated, paper-based work order system when their current system, built in the early 1990s, was showing its age. Macek and his colleagues began researching computerized maintenance management system (CMMSl options that might help them run their utility more efficiently.

"The old system wasn`t able to support the amount of assets we cur rently have," said M

The City of Hillsboro, Kansas has taken the jump into the 21st century utilizing tablets. As you know most utilities continue to use pen and paper to track work orders; from the assignment to the cataloging, creating a time consuming process that is less than appealing. Every so often someone introduces technology that truly fits into the day to day processes we utilize and does not require a computer science degree to learn.

The below article explains how Hillsboro’s field staf