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Optimain® DS
Decision Support
Optimain DS has been tackling the challenges posed by forthcoming federal Distribution Integrity regulations since the early 1990s. With over 12 years of production use at some of the industry’s leading LDCs, Optimain DS provides the tools and technology for gas utilities to meet evolving Distribution Integrity challenges. Optimain DS is a comprehensive decision-support solution that enables system-wide pipe network risk and repair/replace assessment and prioritization. Opvantek and BGE have
finished development of the Service Pipe Integrity Program module for Optimain DS. This exciting development further enhances Optimain DS capabilities for supporting LDC
efforts to meet all evolving
Distribution Integrity
requirements, and is now
available for all other Optimain DS customers.
Opvantek has a significant track record of successfully working with LDCs to implement industry best practices and assist engineers, managers, and operators to identify utility specific factors that affect distribution integrity, risk and economics. Optimain DS incorporates these factors, and helps utility personnel analyze and prioritize distribution pipe network expenditures systematically across their entire distribution network. This approach has been the foundation of many customer success stories, which include reductions in system-wide risk and O&M expenditures that surpass associated infrastructure capital investments within very short periods of time.
Optimain DS supports integration with all major GIS and relational database systems to collect main and service pipe attributes, leak and pipe condition reports, plus location specific information, such as cover type, building usage, population density and other relevant factors. Users are able to define discrete project "envelopes" based on various criteria, including: default main configuration, leak concentrations, address ranges or user defined spatial envelopes.
Optimain DS evaluates all Main and Service Pipe material types, including:
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Cast Iron
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Unprotected Steel
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Protected Steel
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Plastic
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Optimain DS provides powerful tools for system-wide analysis, including:
Pipe Analysis Wizard – monitors all pipes in a LDCs system; auto-generates projects based on leak and condition criteria to facilitate system-wide pipe assessment
Multi-Project Analyzer – provides automated refresh, recalculation and re-ranking of projects based on the latest leak, inspection and environmental information
Dynamic Project Builder – provides LDCs that do not have a GIS with a powerful tool for readily identifying areas where leak history and/or risk conditions require focused analysis, triggering automated creation of Optimain DS projects for ongoing monitoring of future leaks and pipe condition deterioration
Optimain DS goes well beyond traditional repair/replace analysis by using customer specific business rules, statistics, and algorithms that assess the cost and risk reduction potential of various alternatives, including increased surveillance, rehabilitation, repair or replacement.
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