Sweetwater Authority (SWA) is a publicly owned water agency providing water treatment and distribution to over 200,000 San Diego County residents. Since 1977, Sweetwater Authority has provided its customers with water from three primary sources: freshwater ground wells, reservoirs, and San Diego Formation wells. As a partner to Sweetwater Authority, Enterprise Automation has provided automation consulting and systems integration services since 2005.
Sweetwater Authority runs a bi-annual report containing data on facility metrics, water values, and budgets, and 20+ additional items from several operation areas and departments. Prior to starting this project, the report would take several weeks to prepare and would involve many SWA staff members. We were tasked to accelerate this process by building a system to consolidate disparate data silos and enhance data management. The data management system streamlined access to operational insights. The primary technologies used in this project were Plant SCADA (formerly Citect SCADA) and AVEVA Production Management (formerly Ampla), a robust reporting tool traditionally utilized in the mining industry.
Sweetwater Authority significantly reduced the time spent on manual data consolidation and manipulation and gained control over data presentation by implementing AVEVA Production Management’s data aggregation and analysis platform.
AVEVA Production Management delivered comprehensive insights and a holistic perspective on operational data by bringing together vital metrics such as flow values, run values, and power totals from siloed sources. For example, EA developed a water balancing report to enable swift detection and resolution of water leaks, thereby delivering substantial savings for SWA.
While in this case AVEVA Production Management was the ideal solution for our client, the success of this project highlights the potential of data management technology (including Power BI and other tools) have in enhancing the data analytics capabilities of organizations across various sectors.
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