Asset Management Lifecycle

Seven stages, currently bridged by spreadsheets.

The demonstrator focuses on Asset Investment Planning and Operations & Monitoring — the two stages where new evidence from EDM, CIM and Data Mill North can close the loop on the £2 bn of residual risk.

1
Engineering Specs
Policies & standards
Today

Maintenance & replacement standards inherited; not consistently reviewed against new evidence.

Target

Standards adapt to observed failure data and climate scenarios; feedback loop closed.

Internal standardsUnited Utilities asset coding
2
Asset Investment Planning
WINEP, DWMP, optioneering
Focus
Today

Top-down (EDA/Arcadia) and bottom-up (PROAM) plans don't reconcile. New EDM & CIM evidence not yet integrated.

Target

Reconciled plan with system-level risk surface, optioneering against £-at-risk and ODI exposure.

EDA / ArcadiaPROAMWINEPDWMP
3
Work Scheduling
Packaging & sequencing
Today

Site access treated as cheap; jobs not optimally bundled by contractor, geography, or criticality.

Target

Work packages optimised against criticality and access cost; SAP-aligned dispatch.

SAP S/4HANAYW360
4
Execution & Failure Capture
Job delivery, root cause
Today

Component-level fixes recorded; root cause and cascade context lost between systems.

Target

Job outcomes captured against system model; root-cause and downstream impact recorded.

SAP S/4HANAField mobile
5
Operations & Monitoring
SCADA, EDM, CIM
Focus
Today

~65,000 alarms/year; operators lack system-level view of which alarms threaten compliance.

Target

Alarms triaged against time-to-non-compliance; the 6 that matter surfaced.

SCADA / YW360EDMCIM
6
KPI Review
Outcomes vs commitments
Today

Outcomes reported in regulatory cycles; actual risk reduction delivered by investment rarely validated.

Target

Each investment package tracked against the risk it was meant to mitigate.

Ofwat APRInternal BI
7
Continual Improvement
Feedback to specs & plans
Today

Lessons not systematically fed back into engineering specs or risk models.

Target

Closed loop: observed performance updates standards, criticality, and option valuations.

Knowledge mgmtRisk model

Two parallel value streams

Every stage runs across Water Provision (clean water) and Waste Management (wastewater) — the demonstrator anchors on the wastewater side at Scarborough.

Water Provision

  1. 1Raw abstraction & storage
  2. 2Raw water treatment
  3. 3Distribution network
  4. 4Customer metering & end use
~32,000 km mains19 WTW15,000 acoustic ear devices

Waste Management

Demonstrator anchor
  1. 1Sewer network conveyance
  2. 2Storm overflow management
  3. 3Wastewater & sludge treatment
  4. 4Discharge & catchment return
~52,263 km sewers293 STW8,000 sewer alarms · EDM on CSOs

From silos to closed loop

The demonstrator wires Planning and Operations together — and shows where the rest of the lifecycle plugs in.

  1. Today
    Plans don't reconcile with operational evidence.
  2. Today
    Criticality is static and asset-level.
  3. Today
    Outcomes never feed back into specs or risk models.
  4. Target
    Risk surface refreshed with EDM, CIM, AMI signals.
  5. Target
    Optioneer evaluates packages against £-at-risk & ODI.
  6. Target
    Closed loop: delivery validates the risk it mitigated.