Cityworks
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Vol. 6, Issue 2, Fall 2007
Delivering Innovative GIS-Centric Maintenance Management Tools for Your Organization City of Woodland, CA, Increases Productivity and Asset Maintenance Management Utilizing Cityworks, ArcGIS, and GO! Sync Mobile GIS
Waterford Township, MI: Leveraging Cityworks Maintenance Data with RIVA Online Planning Software
by Shane Ring, TC Technology & Lindsay Ferguson, Azteca Systems
by David Woodbury, RIVA Online
The situation: 355 miles of sanitary sewers, 2 jetting crews, and a bunch of problem pipe that needs to be cleaned once, twice, or three times per year. The goal: Create a prioritized plan to jet every foot of sanitary main over a threeyear span, while maintaining the regular scheduling of problem main jetting. The solution: Use maintenance history from Cityworks to drive prioritization and RIVA Online software to create a complete schedule by month for a three-year cleaning cycle. After seeing the RIVA Online software at last year’s Cityworks conference, Waterford Township offered to provide a pilot site to prove that the Cityworks, ESRI, and RIVA Online applications could work together to create strategic plans. In initial discussions about what would provide the most “bang for the buck,” Waterford staff pointed to the ongoing sanitary mains jetting program as an area that could use improvement. cont. on page 24
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Introduction The City of Woodland, located about 20 miles northwest of Sacramento in California’s Central Valley, is the county seat of Yolo County. With a growing population of 52,000, the local economy is rooted in agriculture but increasing in manufacturing and distribution. The City has realized gains in productivity for field crews and more accurate recordkeeping through the use of Azteca Systems’ Cityworks Desktop, ESRI’s ArcGIS, and TC Technology’s GO! Sync Mobile GIS. Problem In early 2002, the City’s Public Works Department was looking for a way to manage their capital assets and infrastructure. They needed to manage and track costs, supplies, and materials associated with maintenance of assets to improve the efficiency of the department.
was also experiencing loss of asset information from employee retirement and turnover. They needed a way to retain and efficiently organize asset data and maintenance work being completed on their assets. Furthermore, GIS alone provided little information about an asset other than its location and characteristics, so the City needed a way of empowering their field crews to track work and relay asset data recorded in the field back to the office. Once information could be handled in this manner, decision makers would have a better understanding of both the costs associated with field work being performed and the condition of the capital assets they were charged with maintaining.
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In the past, asset information was stored on paper, Excel spreadsheets, and paper map books, which was a time-consuming and difficult way to organize and manage data. The City
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