Hach Water Information
Management SolutionTM (WIMSTM)
Overview
October 2010
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Buried in Data?
Don’t get slowed down by:
• Piles of paperwork
• Time-consuming reports
• Mind-numbing calculations
Make it Meaningful!
Hach Water Information
Management Solution
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Hach WIMS Allows You to
Make Performance Decisions Confidently
Hach WIMS provides a comprehensive view of your
entire water and wastewater operations
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Tailor outputs to meet your specific needs
Ensure accurate and secure data
Review easy-to-understand dashboards
Utilize trend analyses charts
Conduct what-if models
Develop internal and regulatory reports
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Organize Data for
Immediate Access and Analysis
Manual Data Entry:
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Built-in templates for data entry
Screens that match spreadsheet ,
daily log and benchsheet formats
Automated Data Entry:
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SCADA
Dataloggers
LIMS
Commercial Laboratory
Reports
Download data from
portable field devices
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Ensure Informed Decisions with
Accurate Information
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Collects data in a
central database
Access to data
provided locally or
over secure Web
Guarantees safe and
secure historical
records
Eliminates multiple
data entries
Tracks inputs through
audit trails
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Monitor Organization Performance
• Personalized dashboards allow you to:
– Track the information specific to your use
– Obtain quick retrieval of reports, graphs, and entry forms
– Access shortcuts to other areas of the software
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Chart Data for Comprehensive Analysis
• Integrated reporting and graphing tools allow you to:
– Simplify report generation and data analysis
– Configure graphs for trend analysis, correlations, and control charting
– Easily compare various sets of data to identify cost reduction opportunities
Ex. Raw Turbidity
Daily Avg, Daily Min,
Daily Max
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Turn Raw Data into Actionable Information
• Create business and regulatory
reports instantly
• Schedule automatic report output to
the screen, print or email
• Utilize built-in EPA and state report
templates (SWTR, DBR, NPDES,
DMR, eDMR, MOR, SDWA, CCR,
industrial pretreatment compliance,
and more)
• Quickly configure standard reports
using templates and wizards
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Case Studies
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Case Study 1: Provide Data Consistency
Throughout Organization
• Challenge
– In 2006, United Water purchased an
enterprise license for OPS SQL™ to use
as its data management tool for 335 of
its facilities
– In 2007, United Water purchased the
water activities of 225 additional facilities
– All facilities used an OPS product,
though different versions and in varying
degrees
– The variation of captured data made it
difficult to effectively compare the
performance of the facilities
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Case Study 1: Provide Data Consistency
Throughout Organization
• Solution
– All facilities migrated to the comprehensive Hach WIMSTM system
(successor to the OPS versions)
– The use of Hach WIMS became a corporate initiative, which allowed
the organization to
• evaluate the performance of each operation using consistent
metrics
• automatically consolidate data from all facilities
• produce regulatory and internal compliance and key performance
indicator reports.
– United Water deployed a customized training curriculum to ensure all
entities utilized the product consistently
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Case Study 2: Maintain Process Control
• Challenge:
– The LEWWTP required a data
management tool to provide critical
operational reports on an hourly,
weekly, monthly, and quarterly
basis
– As a recipient of an EPA Excellence
in Wastewater Management award,
LEWWTP desired an industryleading software product to fulfill
their extensive data management
and reporting needs
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Case 2: Maintain Process Control
• Solution:
– The Hach WIMS system informs the
executive management team on the
progress of the plant and provides reports
to enable each of LEWWTP’s departments
to gauge their daily, weekly, monthly, and
quarterly performance
– The system has been used as a project
management tool to assist in the
monitoring of the facility expansion,
maintaining statistics throughout the
construction, testing, and transition of the
plant
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Case Study 3: Conduct ‘Green’ Initiative
• Challenge:
– The City of Salem embarked on a multi-year pilot project to determine if a
Natural Reclamation System (constructed wetland) could treat
wastewater by using natural systems to polish the effluent
– The project demanded data to qualify the use of full-scale wetlands and
illustrate the benefit of the NRS to both the community and the
environment
– A data management product was required that could capture data from
multiple sources, store the significant amount of data, and report the data
in a format that could be easily used for numerous analyses
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Case Study 3: Conduct ‘Green’ Initiative
• Solution:
– The City of Salem previously utilized Hach WIMS to
collect existing operations and treatment process
information to ensure compliance with federal and
state regulations
– With minimal modifications, Hach WIMS captured
the necessary wetlands data to allow complete
analysis and preparation of required reports (e.g.
Water Pollution Control Federation permits)
– Data collected included the amount of ammonia
entering and exiting the wetlands; the levels of
phosphorous, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD),
metals, e-coli and annual sediment sampling; as
well as many others including monitoring well data
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Case Study 4: Integrate Multiple Systems
• Challenge:
– The City of Columbus stored
laboratory and operations data in
multiple locations and in various
electronic formats
– Staff dedicated numerous labor
hours to manually prepare state
regulatory compliance reports
– Data was cumbersome to trend and use for predictive analysis
– The City sought to improve data usage and operational efficiency and
provide greater access of environmental data by other entities within the
entire Department
– A data management solution was required that satisfied the technical and
informational objectives, as well as the stakeholders from the eight entities
(laboratories, plants, and IT department)
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Case Study 4: Integrate Multiple Systems
• Solution:
– The City of Columbus purchased Hach WIMS to integrate SCADA and
laboratory data to automate the regulatory reporting process
– Regulatory reporting time has been
reduced by almost twelve (12) days
through data provided via the Hach
WIMS interface and its access to the
Ohio EPA online report
– Additionally, the system has enhanced
the relationship between the entities and
their stakeholders
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Case Study 5: Utilize Commercial Product
• Challenge:
– MSD desired to replace their manual
entry system with an automated
system to collect data from all of the
wastewater treatment plants, the
associated SCADA and control
systems, and their central
Laboratory Information Management
System to produce their federal and
state regulatory reports
– MSD contemplated paying for custom development, but needed an
automated system immediately and without the burden of long-term
maintenance of the software code
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Case Study 5: Utilize Commercial Product
• Solution:
– After an extensive procurement
process, MSD selected Hach WIMS
based on its substantial reporting
capabilities and its ability to
interface with multiple systems
– Complementing the system is the
access to both online and personal
customer support services,
providing the ability to address
issues in a timely manner
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Summary of Hach WIMS Key Features
System Designed for Ease of Use
• Data entry forms created to look just like your organization’s paper forms
• Templates provided for regulatory reports (SWTR, NPDES, DMRs, etc.)
• Wizards available to generate additional reports, forms and graphs
Data Available at your Fingertips
• Readily accessible data for reports and analysis
• Automatically transferred data from SCADA and LIMS systems
• No more unsecured spreadsheets, islands of data, duplicate entries, etc.
Access to Powerful Business Information
• Operations easily monitored with dashboards and other analysis tools
• Relevant data managed by set up of ‘exception’ reports
• Operations optimized with accurate historical and short-term data
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Hach WIMS is the Foundation of a
Comprehensive Suite of Products
Hach LAB Cal
Hach JOB Cal
Lab data sample
scheduling
and tracking
Maintenance
scheduling
and tracking
Hach
WIMS
Accurate Information
Informed Decisions
Data from automated
and manual sources
in a central, secure
repository providing easy
regulatory and ad hoc reporting,
analysis and monitoring
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