Session 2.3
Steps towards Digital Asset Management at a 45-Year-old Waste Water Treatment Plant
Synopsis:
The multi-award winning Pukete Wastewater Treatment Plant Asset Information Model project takes the complex and very relevant problem of collecting, integrating and maintaining information about existing asset stock. It breaks this problem down into smaller, palatable chunks and addresses each component of the problem though the implementation of several technologies.
Learning Objectives:
1. An understanding of the benefits and value that digital asset management can bring to a client organisation that places an importance on operating and maintaining its assets.
2. An understanding of the importance of clearly defined and structured asset data requirements.
3. An understanding of the Scan to BIM to Digital Asset Management process applied to existing asset stock and how this approach can apply to other asset types.
Body:
The multi-award winning Pukete Wastewater Treatment Plant Asset Information Model project takes the complex and very relevant problem of collecting, integrating and maintaining information about existing asset stock. It breaks this problem down into smaller, palatable chunks and addresses each component of the problem though the implementation of several technologies. This is underpinned by trust and true collaboration between Beca (the consulting team) and Hamilton City Council (the client).
Hamilton City Council’s challenge centred on the accessibility, reliability and completeness of asset information and as-built records. The solution proposed involved implementing several technologies that were appropriate to each component of the challenge. This included the use of; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to capture site-wide geometry, laser scanners to capture building and asset geometry, 3D modelling tools to develop Building Information Models, a web-based integration tool to create the asset information model and mobile devices to link the digital assets to barcodes on their physical asset counterparts.
At the broadest level, this project provides the functionality to visualise and interrogate more detailed, centralised information about the assets.
Managing contractors will soon be recast as an exact science, with the 3D model confirming the identity of equipment, its location, and important asset data – before works commence. The model also serves as a tool to run contractor safety inductions.
“To say that we’ve got these assets, with these attributes, and all the information is linked to the correct asset onsite, is great – it removes confusion” – Parvati Patel, Asset Engineer, Hamilton City Council.
“Aggregating this kind of information in a visual format makes it easy to access and cross reference – and much simpler for people to find what they need when performing asset management and maintenance activities.”
This presentation will cover each component of the approach, the final solution and appropriate live demonstrations including:
– The client’s back story – how did we get here?
– The client’s drivers for Digital Asset Management – why digital and why now?
– Data capture using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles – including additional benefits and value realised
– Data capture using Laser Scanners
– The Scan to BIM processes – including managing an international scan to BIM team
– Asset Information Model integration – integrating the 3D model with data and documents in the cloud
– Existing asset tag and barcode integration – linking the graphical world to the real world
– Live demonstrations of the final functionality including:
o Accessing asset data via the model
o Accessing documentation and photographs via the model
o Accessing the model via P&ID’s and 2D documentation
o Mobile access and barcode scanning
o Raising and managing work orders
o Accessing and viewing SCADA (sensor) information
o Challenges and lessons learned
o Next steps for the client