Hach Water Information
Management Solution (WIMS)
Overview
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Use Data to Reduce Costs
Overview
Troubleshoot Issues
Compile Data
Easily
Monitor & Improve
Performance
Automate Complex
Calculations
Prepare Regulatory &
Internal Reports
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Hach: Water Quality Experts
Flow & Sampling Homeland Security Technology
Information Management Laboratory Field Process
• 75+ years of water analytics expertise
• Industry innovator: 500+ patents over 130 patent families
• Local service, online chat, life-time technical support
On-line instrumentation
High-quality prepared reagents
Information management software
Accurate laboratory & portable devices
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Hach Integrates Information Management
Hach LAB Cal
Hach JOB Cal
Affordable, Effective Lab
Data Management
Easy to set up
Easy to learn
Easy to use
Lab data sample
scheduling
and tracking
Hach
WIMS
Accurate Information
Informed Decisions
Maintenance
scheduling
and tracking
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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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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“The system has resolved our key issues of data
consolidation and integrity. It is currently used by all
treatment plant managers in their daily analysis of plant
operations and produces all required federal and state
regulatory reports.”
Bob Zinkl
Information Systems
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, MO
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Make Performance Decisions Confidently
See the complete picture of your water and / or waste water system
Hach Water Information Management Solution (Hach WIMS)
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Tailor-made for the water industry
Data is accurate & secure
Easy-to-understand dashboards
Trends analysis charts
What-if models
Internal and regulatory reports
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Water Industry Data Management
Current Solutions – LIMS & SCADA
LIMS
• First created for
pharmaceutical industry
• Used by Labs, not
generally tied to data
outside the Lab
• Used to organize and
analyze data from a
wide number of lab
data sources
• Reports can be highly
customized
LIMS & SCADA are the most
common Data Management
systems in the Water industry
• Each is designed to manage
different aspects of the
operation
• Neither can easily provide the
overall view of the Water
operation
Plus – not all facilities need or
can afford either solution
SCADA
• Designed for process
control & data
acquisition
• Controls processes &
provides excellent
overview of data
acquired from the
processes
• Not designed to acquire
and track data that is
not part of the process
(ex. Lab or Field data)
• Requires programming
to create reports
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Water Industry Data Management
Current Solutions - Excel
LIMS
Excel
• First created for
pharmaceutical industry
• Commonly available software program
• Used by Labs, not
generally tied to data
outside the Lab
• Used to organize and
analyze data from a
wide number of lab
data sources
• Easy to manually enter data from
different sources (lab, field, &
sometimes SCADA)
• Easy for standard formats that can be
shared with others
• Can graph data without separate
programming
• Reports can be highly
customized
Many facilities try to fill data
management gaps with Excel, but
this has issues too…
SCADA
• Designed for process
control & data
acquisition
• Controls processes &
provides excellent
overview of data
acquired from the
processes
• Not designed to acquire
and track data that is
not part of the process
(ex. Lab or Field data)
• Requires programming
to create reports
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Why Excel is not Good Enough
Some things to consider
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It’s easy to overwrite cells in Excel:
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Excel has limitations on the amount of data it can hold:
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How is your data added to your Excel file and how long does it take?
If the data being imported needed to change, who will be able to make the change?
Manipulating and reorganizing data once it is loaded into Excel can be difficult:
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Do you have different files for your current and historical data?
Excel can import data but requires advanced programming to format it:
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How are you protecting your data and formulas to prevent an accidental change?
Do you have any audit trails on the data to indicate when and why a cell had been changed?
How long does it take to pull together your data when you need a non-standard report?
Are you able to get all the value from your data because it’s too difficult to further analyze?
How often do you want to look at the same data in different ways (e.g. different time frames, different comparisons)?
Excel does not automatically back up data or provide version control:
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What would happen if someone accidently deleted your file?
How do you assure revision control?
How do you make sure that you have and are using accurate information?
How do you manage changes to the file or files?
How much effort is needed to do a non-standard analysis or report?
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Water Industry Data Management
The “Right” Solution
Hach Water Information Management Solution™
• Designed specifically for water management with 100+ common Drinking Water and Wastewater calculations and report
templates for the most common regulatory reports such as SWTR, NPDES, DMRs…
• Data captured from all types of data sources including SCADA, Lab, Field
• Data secured in a centralized database that can be accessed locally or via a web interface
• Audit trails and historical records are safe and available for easy viewing
• Custom dashboards display your key information with shortcuts to the data and reports you need.
• Easily configure graphs for trend analysis, correlations, and control charting.
LIMS
SCADA
Excel
• First created for pharmaceutical
industry
• Designed for process control &
data acquisition
• Commonly available software
program
• Used by Labs, not generally
tied to data outside the Lab
• Controls processes & provides
excellent overview of data
acquired from the processes
• Easy to manually enter data from
different sources (lab, field, &
sometimes SCADA)
• Not designed to acquire and track
data that is not part of the
process (ex. Lab or Field data)
• Easy for standard formats that
can be shared with others
• Used to organize and analyze
data from a wide number of lab
data sources
• Reports can be highly
customized
• Requires programming to create
reports
• Can graph data without separate
programming
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Looking to the Next Few Years…
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45% utilities report 60% workforce retirement over next 5 years
Increasing desire to optimize operations, not just meet regulatory compliance
Mandates for integrated water information management
– Already a mandate by CH2MHill/OMI, United Water & Veolia
– Engineering firms have engineers focused exclusively on data management
– Excel will not be acceptable as a primary data repository
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Growing need to have information (rather than just data) to make decisions
and be proactive and predictive
Instruments connected directly to PCs or web-hosted software to provide bidirectional control, data visualization, process optimization and reporting
Increasing importance of water distribution system quality and growing
prevalence of smart water grid
Data information management systems are better
equipped to handle these new requirements
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Key Features Summary
Designed to be Easy to Use
• Data entry forms designed to look just like your paper forms
• Templates for regulatory reports such as SWTR, NPDES, DMRs…
• Wizards help easily design additional reports, forms and graphs
Data at your fingertips
• Data readily available for reports and analysis
• No more unsecured spreadsheets, islands of data, duplicate entries
• WIMS automatically transfers data from SCADA and LIMS systems
Powerful Business Information
• Easily monitor operations with dashboards and other analysis tools
• Optimize Operations with accurate historical and short term data
• Manage with relevant data by setting up “exception” reports
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Integrated with Water Market Leaders
• Aligned with Leading SCADA manufacturers
– Electronic data transfers from GE, Wonderware, Rockwell, etc.
• Partnership with ATL Sample Master
– 30% of US LIMS water market
• Integrated with Hach Process and Lab Instrumentation
– Industry leader for water quality instrumentation
• Recommended and sold by E&C’s and SCADA Integrators
– Includes CDM, HDR, CH2M Hill, and IPS
• Contracts with major water companies
– Veolia, United Water, American Water, etc.
Water market leaders value comprehensive data information
management systems for comprehensive analysis and data security
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Hach Integrated Information Management
has a strong foundation
• Based on OPS Systems 30 years of experience developing software
for the water industry
• The only patented web-based delivery of water focused information
management solutions
(based on patents acquired from WaterEye)
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• Hach’s wide array of instruments, water analysis expertise, and
commitment to customer service
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Hach Integrates Information Management
Hach LAB Cal
Hach JOB Cal
Affordable, Effective Lab
Data Management
Easy to set up
Easy to learn
Easy to use
Lab data sample
scheduling
and tracking
Hach
WIMS
Accurate Information
Informed Decisions
Maintenance
scheduling
and tracking
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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Hach LAB Cal – Lab Data Management
• Schedule and track lab
samples with a visual calendar
• Enter data with electronic
benchsheets
• Use built-in standard methods
libraries
• Assure data security and
secure data access
• Use Reporting & analysis tools
• Get simplicity for managing lab
tasks
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LAB Cal Regulatory & Laboratory Reports
Available Reports:
 Chain of Custody
 Certificate of Analysis
 Quality Analysis/Control
 Missing Sample
 Exception Reports
Reporting made easy
only a mouse click away
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Hach Integrates Information Management
Hach LAB Cal
Hach JOB Cal
Affordable, Effective Lab
Data Management
Easy to set up
Easy to learn
Easy to use
Lab data sample
scheduling
and tracking
Hach
WIMS
Accurate Information
Informed Decisions
Maintenance
scheduling
and tracking
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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Hach JOB Cal – Maintenance Scheduling &
Tracking
Designed for maintenance people
• Easy to set up
• Easy to learn
• Easy to use
• Status at a glance
• Familiar format and process
JOB Cal Basic
JOB Cal Plus
• Automatically builds an interactive, colorcoded calendar for easy management of job
activities
• Tracks just the basics of work order
• Allows you to track more detail
– Inventory, vendors and purchasing
– Who did the work and how long did it take
• Display equipment drawings or pictures.
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JOB Cal: At a Glance Calendar Shows…
Easy to understand color codes
What’s due:
What’s done:
What’s late:
What’s really late:
Skip it:
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Compile Data Easily
More data is not better unless
you can do something with it
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“The Hach WIMS product has been instrumental in the
collection of relevant data. Its data capture and
reporting capabilities have provided us a
comprehensive analysis of our wetlands pilot project.”
Stephanie Eisner
Natural Reclamation System Proj. Coordinator
City of Salem, WA
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See Your Whole Operation: Combine Data
From Field, Lab & Operations
• Instant access to data, reports, entry forms, audit information
• Data organized for easy interpretation
• Track dosages, flows, concentration, summarized data like daily
average flow, 15 minute turbidity maxi, hourly DO min
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Easy Data Entry Organizes Information for
Fast 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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Accurate Information - Securely Stored
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Data comes together in
a central database
– Easy access, local or
over secure Web
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Safe and secure storage
of historical records
Data entered one time,
minimizing errors
Audit trails maintained
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Automate Complex Calculations
With 100+ built-in formulas, you can stop worrying
about making mistakes in complex calculations
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“We love this software. I have the time to
give this reference because I have the
software!”
James Grandstaff
Division Director
Henrico County Water Reclamation Facility, VA
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You Don’t Need to Be a Statistician
• Built-in equations and
verification engines
• Easily add additional
formulas
• Calculate and track
just about anything
• Error and worry free
• Get consistent results
based on EPA
requirements
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Troubleshoot system
upsetscommon
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Analyze cost overruns
water/ waste
Check compliance issues
Identify opportunities
for costindustryreduction
water
specific
formulas
Error and worry free built-in calculations provide data consistency
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Example of Built-in Complex F-to-M Ratio
This cell result based
on this formula
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Impact of Quick & Accurate Calculations
 Trust that data is
accurate and
consistent.
 Decisions are based
on accurate data
Find errors in
formulas
Troubleshoot system
upsets
Analyze cost
overruns
Check compliance
issues
Identify opportunities
for cost reduction
Edit or alter formulas
if needed or required
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Troubleshoot Issues
Intelligent alerts, modeling tools and
audit trails all help you resolve,
predict and prevent disruptions
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“Hach WIMS is central to everything that the
LEWWTP does. Each system that the LEWWTP
has provides data into Hach WIMS. It is essential
to our process decisions.”
Brenna Durkin
DBA Specialist
Littleton/Englewood Wastewater Treatment Plant
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Let Software do the Detective Work
• Assimilate information and find answers to:
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System upsets
Cost overruns
Compliance issues
Customer complaints
• Use predictive modeling tools to prevent future issues from occurring
– Develop "what if" scenarios
• Perform simple or complex search queries
– Find the exact information you need
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Automatically Compare & Verify All Info
Flags problems
so you know
exactly where
they occurred
Immediately
identifies change
in the system
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Maintain Accurate Records with Audit Trails
Audit trails show
who touched the
data
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Data Exception Reports Help Manage
Anomalies
Run report for
data outside:
• Entry limits
• Daily limits
• QC limits
• Forced entries
Output to Screen,
Excel, HTML or Email
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Sample
report output
to screen
quickly helps
identify
issues
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Event Reports Provide Highlight Key
Information
Generated automatically:
• Monthly report for all violations
• QC control limit flags
• Entry limit flags
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Monitor & Improve Performance
Get the data you need instantly in
easy-to-read formats so you can
make decisions quickly
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“Hach WIMS has fostered analysis beyond regulatory
data. Information on pumping stations, energy usage,
material usage, and cost analysis are just a few of the
trends performed to enhance ‘optimization.’ The new
question is not ‘Can we analyze the data?’ but ‘Which
data do you want to analyze?’”
Gwinnett County, GA
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Get Your Data Fast for Faster Decisions
• Personalized dashboards let you monitor key data
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Immediately shows the information you need to know
Provides shortcuts to other parts of the software
Allows quick access to reports, graphs, entry forms
Can be customized to the user
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Graph Pac Provides Visual System-wide
Overview
Multiple
graphs for
your key
performance
indicators
generated
with a click of
a button
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Chart Data Points for Easy Analysis
• Reporting and graphing tools
– Configure graphs for trend analysis, correlations, and control charting
– Easily compare different sets of data to identify cost reduction
opportunities
– Use preprogrammed templates, wizards, and built-in calculation tools
– Simplify report generation
and data analysis
Ex. Raw Turbidity
Daily Avg, Daily Min,
Daily Max
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Example Monthly
Average Report for
Specified Variable
Automatically
calculates for
specified
variable for fast
analysis
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Data Views Provide Easiest Visualization
Easy visualization of
data against daily
limits
Formats that best aid
in understanding the
data
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Prepare Regulatory & Internal Reports
Create reports in seconds and then
schedule them to print or email
automatically
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“The biggest advantage in our implementation of Hach
WIMS is the automation of our reports. Reports that
typically would take weeks at a time to prepare, now only
take us a matter of a few hours. Additionally Hach WIMS
fills a much needed gap. Our Operations Department now
has access to data that allows them to make
adjustments within their operational parameters in hours
– instead of days.”
Peter Chang, System Engineer III
King County, WA
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Turn Raw Data into Actionable Information
• Eliminate reams of paper
• Create business and regulatory
reports in seconds
• Schedule automatic report output to
the screen, printed or by email
• Utilize EPA and state report
templates: SWTR, DBR, NPDES,
DMR, eDMR, MOR, SDWA, CCR,
industrial pretreatment compliance,
and more
• Configure standard reports with a
few keystrokes using templates and
wizards
• Develop ad-hoc reports in minutes
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Accurate Regulatory & Process
Reports & Graphs
Drinking Water
Create paper and electronic
reports for Waste Water and
Drinking Water for each state
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Powerful Information at your Fingertips
Waste Water
Example Discharge
Monitoring Report
Example Inflow/
Infiltration Study
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Case Studies
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Case 1: Improving Aeration Efficiency
Oxygen transfer efficiency is a function of bubble size. The smaller the bubble, the
higher the efficiency. Ceramic or membrane diffusers will foul in time, causing the
bubble size to increase. To minimize energy used and reduce downtime, it is important
to determine when diffusers need to be cleaned.
Clients use WIMS™ to determine cleaning cycle by benchmarking pounds of
BOD removed per KW of electricity used.
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Case 2: Lowering Chemical Costs
In the chart of raw and settled water turbidity against alum dosage (obtained by using
graphing tools in WIMS™), the client recognized that increased alum dosing (circled) did
not improve settled water turbidity. This led to an opportunity to save up to 10 percent
in alum dosage.
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Case 3: Real-time estimation of BOD
The time-lag in obtaining BOD results, a 5-day lab test, make it challenging for plant
operations to adjust treatment processes to adverse levels of BOD. By using powerful
statistical tools built into WIMS™, a site-specific correlation between on-line UV
absorbance against lab BOD measurements was obtained. The client can now estimate
BOD in real-time, allowing for the optimization for treatment processes and avoid
potential violations.
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