Asset Management - Beginning with Accurate Registries and Identifying Asset Criticality

Presentation Description: The Inland Empire Utilities Agency’s (IEUA) Asset Management (AM) Strategy includes implementation of leading industry best practices for asset renewal, condition assessment, and asset reliability. Key components of implementing these practices began with knowing the current state of our assets. To understand the current state of our assets, we easily turned to our computerized maintenance management system’s (CMMS) asset inventory; however like most agency’s inventories, IEUA’s was developed decades ago when the CMMS was first implemented and gradually the inventory has been updated, modified, and changed by its stakeholders. IEUA conducted a thorough review and assessment of its asset inventory compared to leading industry best practices as applicable to its CMMS. Findings from this assessment resulted in the implementation of a new asset hierarchy, updated asset register, and application of criticality at a full-scale level and laying the foundation for successfully asset reliability.

The journey towards asset reliability can be a monumental and complicated undertaking. IEUA’s AM Strategy and its understanding of the value of asset management have resulted in the implementation of key AM Initiatives that have also sparked and built motivation and gain buy-in from its key asset stakeholders – O&M who led the effort to support the development of an accurate asset registry and determining asset criticality – both starting points to asset management and asset reliability.

This presentation will discuss how the IEUA tackled the starting point of their asset management journey. The steps taken, including lesson learned. This presentation will detail the process from asset definition to assigning asset criticality and use for O&M strategies to test driving the new asset register in its CMMS.

The Inland Empire Utilities Agency, formed in 1950, is a municipal water district located in western San Bernardino County, California. IEUA’s mission is to supply imported drinking water, collect and treat wastewater, produce beneficially reusable compost, and high-quality recycled water to the 850,000 residents living within its 242-square mile service area.