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Optimizing Distribution Pipe Integrity and Risk

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

Decision support 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. Optimain DS helps you:

	Analyze your entire distribution system and quickly identify risk and integrity issues
	Identify optimal strategies for system-wide risk reduction through replacement, refurbishment, repair and increased monitoring programs
	Monitor the effectiveness of your distribution integrity program

Complete asset management solution that manages all distribution assets and relationships (via the Enterprise Asset Register and the Relationship Manager), and supports all regulatory compliance and maintenance programs associated with those assets. Optimain ACM helps you:

	Manage your entire distribution network
	Identify and manage key asset relationships within your distribution system
	Track all historical events on every asset within your system
	Monitor and automatically schedule all of your inspection, repair and compliance work requirements
	Optimize your maintenance program strategies

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