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Making a Business Case for Data Management
Author(s) -
Miles Gabi
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2011.tb11462.x
Subject(s) - standardization , certification , division (mathematics) , business , data management , process management , engineering management , data collection , computer science , environmental resource management , database , operations management , environmental science , management , engineering , statistics , arithmetic , mathematics , economics , operating system
This article discusses the experience that the city of Gastonia (North Carolina) Water Supply and Treatment Division (WSTD) had when it started using Hach's Water Information Management Solution (WIMS) to save energy and run the plant more efficiently. In addition, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has designated the plant as ISO 14001‐certified, a classification that addresses various aspects of environmental management and requires additional data collection and reporting. The new information management program has helped operators, division managers, and even city council members ‐ all of whom depend on easily accessible data to make budgets and predict the availability of resources.