The goal
Reduce asset acquisition, operations and maintenance costs
The pressure is on to improve the return on your assets and defer capital spending. The asset lifecycle management solution from IBM can help you more intelligently assess your asset portfolio and investment programs. Decrease operations and maintenance costs with improved network reliability. And identify security risks, assist with fault diagnosis and enable superior collaboration with personnel.
The advantage
Keep a finger on the pulse of your infrastructure
The asset lifecycle management solution helps field technicians proactively monitor and collect information from assets located across your infrastructure to prevent outages before they happen, extend asset life and gather important data to support new investments. Network devices monitor the status and performance of network assets and relay the information back to your enterprise. Ultimately, the solution works to extend equipment life, prioritize the replacement of assets and defer costly network upgrades.
The benefits
Optimize capital expenditures
To improve utility network availability, security and asset management, this solution can dramatically improve asset reliability, network utilization and resource predictability. This means your company can help:
- Maximize asset performance and asset life.
- Anticipate asset faults before they happen.
- Improve infrastructure security and reliability.
- Meet and retain supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) compliance.
- Integrate with data mining and analytics tools to help prioritize asset replacement.
- Use video surveillance of substations to identify security risks, assist with fault diagnosis and enable superior collaboration with personnel.
- Provide data required to support network upgrade requests.
