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Project No.: 2017-178-00
Date: August 1, 2018
Prepared For: City of Coppell
Mike Garza, P.E.
Prepared By: Alan Plummer Associates, Inc.
Ellen McDonald, Ph.D., P.E.
Taylor Baird, E.I.T.
cc: Jaime Ordonez, P.E., Alan Plummer Associates, Inc.
Alan Tucker, P.E., Alan Plummer Associates, Inc.
I. INTRODUCTION
The City of Coppell (City) is investing in an asset management program to meet the growing demands of
the City while maintaining its existing infrastructure. This program will include an asset management plan
for its water distribution system and wastewater collection system. Alan Plummer Associates, Inc. (APAI)
has provided the City a proposal to assist with development of an asset management plan for these
systems. It is intended that the results of these respective projects be integrated with the City's existing
management software which is provided by Tyler Technologies. The purpose of this memorandum is to
discuss the integration of APAI's asset management plan and the Tyler Technologies Enterprise Asset
Management(EAM) software.
II. DEFINITIONS
Definitions for relevant terms are provided below.
• Asset Management (AM) - Asset management is a sequential optimization process that
continuously improves the infrastructure inventory, condition, perFormance, and
maintenance knowledge of each asset in the system. This allows the asset owner to
appropriately allocate resources for asset maintenance or replacement.
• Asset Management Plan (AMP) - An asset management plan is a deliverable that
summarizes the results of a comprehensive asset inventory, provides recommendations
for short-term action items, and provides future investment profiles to asset rehabilitation
or replacement. A City's implementation of an AMP and its recommendations is typically
the first phase of asset management.
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City of Coppell Asset Management
Asset Management Plan and Software Integration
• Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) - Enterprise Asset Management is Tyler
Technologies' software solution for asset management. It is comprised of two modules -
"Asset Maintenance" and "Asset Performance." Both modules would be required to
achieve the goals and capabilities discussed in this memorandum.
• Likelihood of Failure (LOF) - Likelihood of failure is a comprehensive measure of how
likely an asset is to fail based on its characteristics and condition, and how capable the
asset is for meeting the intended level of service.
• Consequence of Failure (COF) - Consequence of failure is a comprehensive measure
of the potential impact that an asset failure may have on the City, utility customers, and
the environment or surrounding area.
• Risk of Failure (ROF) - An asset's risk of failure considers the risk of asset ownership
and operation based on its likelihood and consequence of failure.
III. ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN
APAI's proposed asset management plan includes the following components for both the water
distribution and wastewater collection systems:
1. Development of an asset inventory which includes assets' geographical location, physical
characteristics (such as age and material), and condition as determined by a City staff knowledge
capture;
2. LOF, COF, and ROF determinations for each asset based on factors and rating systems
developed in conjunction with the City;
3. A prioritized ranking of assets based on the ROF;
4. Recommendations for near-term asset inspections and/or rehabilitation/replacement based on
the assets' ROF;
5. Determination of anticipated useful life, remaining useful life, and replacement cost for each
collection system asset; and
6. A long term sustainability plan which forecasts the pace and magnitude of investment required to
sustain the City's water and wastewater pipelines based on pipeline survival curves and
anticipated cost of rehabilitation or replacement.
APAI will provide an AMP summarizing the results of the asset management exercise, as well as the
geographical information system (GIS)-based asset database and LOF, COF, and ROF calculation tools.
These deliverables will allow the City to continuously update its asset inventory and recalculate each
asset's LOF, COF, and ROF as new information is obtained related to condition or as assets are replaced
or rehabilitated.
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City of Coppell Asset Management
Asset Management Plan and Software Integration
IV. ENTERPRISE ASSET MANAGEMENT
The following discussion of Tyler Technologies EAM is based on APAI's understanding of the products
available through discussion with the City, discussion with Tyler Technologies representatives, and
publicly available information. Tyler Technologies EAM is comprised of an Asset Maintenance module
and an Asset Performance module; both modules are necessary to achieve the capabilities discussed
herein. The Tyler Technologies EAM modules can provide the City with a GIS-based map of the water
and wastewater pipelines and a summary of basic asset characteristics, LOF, COF, and ROF. All assets,
asset characteristics, LOF values, COF values, and ROF values are user-input fields, and are not
calculated or verified within the EAM modules. This software also summarizes project costs, with the
cost of asset replacement or rehabilitation also being user input values. The EAM modules serve to
summarize user input asset information and user input asset management costs in a familiar software
tool.
V. INTEGRATION OF AN AMP AND EAM
Since the asset characteristics, LOF, COF, ROF, and cost of rehabilitation or replacement are user inputs
to the EAM modules, the current absence of this information necessitates development of an AMP
outside of the EAM system. The GIS-based asset inventory; calculated LOF, COF, and ROF values; and
forecasted pipeline capital investment requirements that will result from APAI's AMP will serve as the user
inputs for the EAM modules.
Once the AMP results are integrated into the EAM modules, a workflow will need to be developed and
implemented by the City to keep the data in the EAM current. Using a GIS-based program and scoring
tools provided by APAI, asset characteristics, LOF, COF, and ROF values can be kept up to date, and
new assets can be entered. These updated results can then be exported to the EAM modules to keep the
displayed information current. Opinions of cost for pipeline rehabilitation and replacement provided by
APAI will need to be updated to account for inflation, pipeline size and material, length of pipeline, and
construction considerations for manual input into the EAM modules for the continuation of capital
forecasting beyond what is provided in the AMP.
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