Optimizing Distribution Pipe Integrity & Strategic Asset Management

The primary concerns of distribution utilities continue to be network integrity and asset optimization. Customers and regulators stress the need for quality service, while investors demand the greatest possible returns from your assets. The Optimain® Suite focuses on the core business function of gas and water distribution utilities, providing safe, reliable, and high-quality services to customers. Optimain offers a fully integrated approach to distribution network asset management and decision support, including:



A decision support / risk analysis solution that helps managers, engineers, and operators identify optimal strategies for maintaining and improving distribution network integrity while decreasing risk by maximizing the effectiveness of infrastructure capital and operating expenditures.



The Service Pipe Integrity Program module extends the Optimain DS capabilities to individual service pipes, covering virtually “every inch” of your distribution system, providing a total, comprehensive approach to system risk and distribution integrity.



Asset and Compliance Management software that provides a complete asset lifecycle management solution featuring an Asset Register, an Event History Register, and a Relationship Manager that tracks all distribution assets and supports regulatory compliance and maintenance programs associated with those assets.

Third party excavation damage is the #1 threat to distribution pipelines. Optimain xDR supports and enhances continuous, proactive monitoring of third party excavation activity to help reduce the probability and consequences of an occurrence. When coupled with your enterprise GIS, it provides updated views of excavation risk areas and adds significant support to your damage prevention initiatives.

An innovative software tool kit that geo-codes both historic and new records and events (leaks, services, third party strikes, outages, etc.) and places them on the GIS facility with the greatest match confidence. The software features a Web / Windows service for automatic placement and a graphical user interface that permits manual placements as well.

An enterprise solution that models third-party paving and construction projects affecting distribution network assets, and analyzes the impacts and cost benefits of aligning various asset rehabilitation projects with third-party construction.