Make the Most of your Assets

Equipment age is an obvious factor affecting plant efficiency, reliability and productivity. In this particular sector, its also important to bear in mind the requirement to maintain high health, safety and environmental standards. That’s why it’s important to refurbish assets to meet those standards, and to ensure uptime and efficiency.

As leaders in innovative water solutions through smart technology, Xylem has extensive experience and expertise in water and wastewater asset refurbishment, to help reduce capital expenditure and increase the life of your assets. 

And it’s all brought together in a package of services called Xylem TotalCare. 

Upgrade your assets

Maintaining the productivity of your water and wastewater equipment requires optimised operations with minimised lifecycle costs. That starts with an equipment condition assessment by Xylem experts. 

Experienced Xylem system engineers evaluate the condition of your assets, and recommend any upgrades required to ensure optimal reliability and efficiency. This TotalCare service can also include a site audit, design and refurbishment, and asset conversions or upgrades as required. 

One potential upgrade would be to a wastewater pumping system with integrated intelligence.

The intelligent choice

Most of the recent attempts to improve pump efficiency have revolved around replacing standard induction motors with premium efficiency motors. This is a minor improvement, resulting in just a few percentage points increase in pump system efficiency. However Flygt Concertor, the pumping system with integrated intelligence, can deliver much lower operating costs, as well as breakthrough pump system efficiency improvements. 

These efficiencies are realised in pump hydraulics, the motor, and the pump system. In many sewage lift stations, energy savings alone can equal up to 70%.

At the same time, integrated intelligence can add unparalleled flexibility and increased reliability, all contained within a smaller footprint. Cleaning costs are reduced, additional functions can be incorporated, equipment life can be extended, and reliability of the whole pump system can be optimised. 

Not surprisingly, customers who have trialled this new technology with Flygt Concertor have been more than impressed by the results. 

Leaner asset management

Another important benefit of upgrading your wastewater asset to an integrated intelligent pump system is the reduction in the number of individual components. 

This simplification means you can cover a larger field of performance with just a handful of component options – such as pump volutes with different discharge sizes, an impeller for each volute, and two or three sizes of motor. In this way, one intelligent wastewater pump can cover the hydraulic performance of numerous different conventional pumps and their different impellers, volutes and motors.

As a result, your spares stock and inventory costs can be greatly reduced. With just a few spare pumps being enough to cover many different operating conditions at several different pump stations, you can realise significant capital savings. 

To identify whether an integrated intelligent pump system is the next logical upgrade for your assets – or whether an asset refurbishment will be enough for you to meet your efficiency, reliability and productivity targets, take the first step towards intelligent asset management, with Xylem TotalCare. It will make the most of your assets, with the least of your effort.