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IBM has snared a $14.5 million agreement with the Northern Territory's multi-utility provider, Power and Water Corporation, to design and implement an asset management system aimed at delivering electricity, water and sewerage services to the corporation’s 80,000 customers across more than 1.3 million kilometres of the Top End territory more efficiently.
Under the agreement, Power and Water will tap
IBM's expertise and technology for its Asset Management Capability
(AMC) Project, which is a four-year program to improve asset management
practices across the corporation.
Power and Water Corporation AMC program director, Sharon McAnelly, said
today the organisation needs an enterprise-wide system to streamline
processes and report real performance, and she said "better asset
management systems capability means better information on asset
performance and condition. This will bring clarity to investment
decisions, maintenance planning and delivery, and ultimately better
customer services.”
McAnelly said a key component in the delivery of the AMC Project lies
in the implementation of IBM Maximo Spatial Asset Management, a
geospatially enabled asset management solution integrated with the
latest Geographic Information System (GIS) technology from IBM Business
Partner ESRI.
IBM Australia and New Zealand general manager public sector, Steve
Bond, said today that the company’s Maximo Spatial Asset Management
solution is designed to enable users to visualise all assets and work
in a geospatial context to help optimise resources and decisions.
"The solution enables users to capture, analyse, and display assets,
locations, and work orders. For example, asset managers will not only
know that an asset exists, but can also see information about its
condition, cost, maintenance history and exactly where it is on a map,
in relationship to other assets of various types.”
According to Bond, Power and Water will also be using IBM Cognos TM1 to
consolidate and analyse maintenance and capital works planning, which
he said “will help Power and Water to meet the future needs of the
growing Northern Territory population and meet the goals of its
recently increased capital maintenance plan allocated across power
generation, power networks, water, sewerage and business services.
"We are delighted to be helping Power and Water Corporation lay down
the groundwork for smarter energy and water management. Power and Water
Corporation joins the ranks of businesses and governments around the
world working with IBM on smart technology systems to help manage and
optimize the use of finite resources."
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