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Work Optimization
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Work Optimization
By using IBM? Work Optimization for Water Utilitiesa water utility can optimize and more efficiently manage work associatedwith water management across a geographically dispersed infrastructure.
A significant part of a utilities operational expense is allocatedto maintaining and upgrading the infrastructure from responding toemergency situations to preventive maintenance and inspections.Each work item involves the dispatch of a crew from a central depotto the location of the work. In addition in many cases each workitem is composed of a set of dependent subtasks where each subtaskmight require a specific skill or equipment.
Water utilities can significantly benefit from analytics whichcan assign work to maximize utilization of crews and equipment whileminimizing unproductive driving time.
| Capabilities | What does this do? |
|---|---|
| Interactive work order reporting | Provides spatial and report-based visualizationof work orders by type season and problem codes based on the selectasset the start/end time analysis frequency (daily/monthly/weekly/yearly). |
| Manual spatial-temporal scheduling | Is an interactive spatial-temporal schedulingtool that allows you to manually create a work management schedulebased on the selected asset time interval crew and work orders.Allows a water agency scheduler to manually select a task based ona map location and build a schedule which leverages the spatial proximityof resources tools and tasks. |
| Semi-automated spatial-temporal scheduling | Is an interactive semi-automated spatial-temporalscheduling tool that creates a work management schedule. The scheduleis based on the selected asset time interval crew and work ordersand interleaves manual and automated schedule creation. This approachis a valuable transition route to fully automated scheduling and youcan adapt your business practices. |
| Automated spatial-temporal scheduling | Provides fully automated spatial-temporal workmanagement scheduling based on the specification of asset time intervalwork order selection (including polygon selection) and crew. Theanalytics use a broad range of inputs including location of worktype of work job plan skill set equipment and priority to computeschedules that optimize utilization and minimize driving. |
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08 December 2018
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