Implementing Reliability Maintenance Programs to Optimize O&M

Learn key strategies and steps you can take to implement and sustain a successful reliability program from any stage of your reliability journey. This session includes a high-level overview of maintenance reliability; the journey and lessons learned from three utilities successfully implementing reliability maintenance projects; tips for developing strategies to sustain and improve asset reliability; and a panel discussion with audience engagement.

A key component of any Asset Management Program is the optimization of operations and maintenance practices. In 2023, an AWWA Asset Management Maintenance and Reliability Subcommittee was formed to promote an understanding of how maintenance and reliability practices support asset management and sustainable infrastructure. The subcommittee has been gathering and developing resources from utilities that have already embarked on maintenance reliability journeys. This session is to share case studies and best practices to support other organizations in their development and refinement of processes, tools, and systems that facilitate and uphold maintenance, reliability, and asset management best practices for vertical assets. Maintenance and reliability programs can help an organization advance its asset management program and implement sustainable business practices.

This session has been organized to provide utilities with insight into developing strategies to optimize operations maintenance and asset reliability. We have developed the following agenda to ensure applicability and value to organizations at any stage of their reliability journey:

High-level overview of maintenance reliability.

Portland Water, San Jose Water, and Tulsa Water and Sewer Utilities will share their experiences of successfully implementing maintenance and reliability practices. These overviews will include the overall processes, milestones, benefits, key takeaways, and lessons learned.

The session will finish with a panel discussion providing the audience with the opportunity to ask questions and gain further insight from the expert presenters. The longest phase of an asset’s life cycle is operations and maintenance. Many practices can be put in place to optimize this phase and improve asset reliability. Join us to learn strategies and steps that you can take to implement successful maintenance and reliability programs.

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