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Asset management

Sewer inspection

The need for a clear strategy of managing assets is becoming more important as the drive to reduce costs of ownership and increase reliability gain pace.  OS digital data provides much of the necessary geographic information to exploit location as the basis of an asset management process. 

It contains many of the features that are considered to be assets, along with their addresses, how to access them and the kind of land use activities that occur around them.  Associating your own data to OS MasterMap also enables the planning of optimal inspection or maintenance intervals, therefore minimising cost and mitigating risk.

OS MasterMap

OS MasterMap data has a unique reference that links address, road networks and topography. It enables you to accurately identify and link together your assets, your risks and your customers, turning your data into operational knowledge. You can also associate your own information to an asset such as their function, history, setting, usage, interaction with other structures and customer information providing the framework for integrating business processes, thereby increasing efficiencies.

Benefits

  • Identify the precise location of all your assets.
  • Associate your own data to enable proactive asset maintenance and replacement strategies.
  • Identify an asset in relation to risk.
  • Provide an accurate and reliable referencing platform for third party enquiries.
  • Identify the location and status of customers in relation to operational assets.
  • Enables the visualisation of issues otherwise impossible to deduce from fragmented sets of  information…
  • Fast and accurate identification of the scale of a problem, allows the prioritisation of work to meet regulatory requirements and minimise customer impact
  • Measure consequence of loss and model re routing of alternative supplies.
    Manage impact of service provision down to single household level
  • Evidence based investment strategies

‘We use OS MasterMap to determine the replacement value of our assets. We look at the length of pipe and number of manholes and valves and we attribute with type of surface – A road, B road and so on, footpath, verge etc all of which carry different excavation costs. From this we can calculate the asset replacement costs for the business’s cost model. OS MasterMap makes this process possible and importantly auditable.’

Peter Mahon, United Utilities

‘Having web-based map access across the business ties in with our goal of achieving the highest standards and the lowest possible charges, with technology as a key enabler. Putting all our critical information in a single place means that we always have accurate data which is constantly online for the business user to access and is continually being updated. This allows us to operate efficiently and effectively. Our aim now is to continue improving the value of our data by putting more business data into the Central spatial repository’

Maurice Smith, Severn Trent Water

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