Streamlining Business Practices in Treatment Plants with Nontraditional Uses of GIS

Author: Bryan William Dickerson
Organization: Idea Integration

4500 S. Monaco St. # 821
Denver, CO 80237
USA

Phone: 303-221-4211
Fax: 419-844-2290
bryandickerson@uswest.net

Idea Integration, in cooperation with its project team partners Brown and Caldwell and CFI, L.L.C, is making use of the Esri suite of tools to integrate GIS, document management, computerized maintenance management, and plant design software to streamline the business practices at wastewater treatment plants. By utilizing the entire suite of Esri software, Idea Integration is able to tackle unique problems associated with retrieving and displaying information for features that range from plant process systems to buildings to smaller pieces of equipment all in a single, easy-to-use, Web-based environment.
Some of the issues that arise from this nontraditional use of GIS are displaying the intricate piping and appurtenances of a treatment plant (pipe racks, valves, etc.); two-dimensional representation of three-dimensional structures; and integration with document management, CMMS, and an existing plant P&ID system.