IBM and SFPUC team to help reduce water pollution in the San Francisco Bay and Pacific Ocean

From The Examiner:

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is using IBM software to help reduce pollution in the water that surrounds the city on three sides — the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

The SFPUC, which treats an average of 80-90 million gallons of wastewater per day during dry weather and up to 370 million gallons of combined wastewater and storm runoff per day during the rainy season, is using the IBM software to develop smarter management of the city’s 1,000 miles of sewer system and three treatment facilities.

Already, in the last year, the IBM software has improved the organization’s ratio of preventive to corrective maintenance by approximately 11 percent, meaning that the organization has been doing more preventive and less corrective maintenance. This is how SFPUC is measured against industry standards.

The IBM Maximo Asset Management software gives the SFPUC greater visibility into their maintenance operations and physical infrastructure, with near real-time status of equipment and maintenance history. The software also integrates with the city’s 311 and 28-CLEAN Customer Service systems — dispatch centers that handle non-emergency problems, such as potholes, abandoned vehicles, loose manhole covers and overflowing storm drains.

“Using the IBM Maximo Asset Management software, problems are often solved within 24 hours,” said Tommy Moala, Assistant General Manager, SFPUC Wastewater Enterprise. “But the real value of the IBM software is the information it gathers so that we can help further reduce water pollution. For example, with some work order histories generated from the IBM software, we can see that we’ve rebuilt a pump, say, 10 times — maybe it’s time to replace it. The software also helps us to reduce the cost of managing the system down to the component level.”

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