Automated Water Systems

OneSource - Your Partner in Wastewater Management

Your neighbors at OneSource are leveraging new systems to ensure water production is safe, sustainable and reliable.

We’re your partners in:

•  Optimizing energy consumption.
•  Reducing lifecycle and implementation costs.
•  Streamlining asset maintenance.
•  Improving system responsiveness.
•  Complying with industry regulations.

When it comes to water treatment and distribution, there’s nothing more important than safety, affordability and reliability. Water industry professionals know that achieving these necessary goals is easier said than done, especially while demands are rapidly changing.

Put simply, the water industry is facing a growing number of new challenges that stand in the way of producing clean water, including:

• Equipment reliability: With an aging infrastructure of critical technologies and equipment, unplanned downtime has the potential to throw water productivity into a tailspin.


• Strict regulations: As water quality standards continue to shift, keeping pace with performance requirements can feel like aiming at a moving target.


• Rising operational costs: From labor to maintenance to energy consumption, water treatment facilities are facing tighter budgets as demands continue to change.

Mitigating these obstacles will come down to embracing emergent technologies. By adopting highly automated data-driven solutions, the water industry will be able to maintain production to the high standards that consumers expect and deserve.

At OneSource, we’re working to guarantee safety, affordability and reliability in local water systems.

How do we meet those goals? Simple: through the power of Rockwell Automation solutions. Integrated control systems, data-driven automation, predictive maintenance and cross-industry expertise help us deliver modernized wastewater management to coastal and Southwestern communities.

All told, Rockwell Automation technology empowers you to:

• Reduce downtime: Maintain aging technology and avoid disruptive equipment failure through real-time asset monitoring.


• Integrate your entire facility: With a connected water treatment facility, you’ll gain unparalleled visibility into the efficiency of your most critical processes.


• Adhere to regulations: Flexible solutions and water quality control tools will enable your water system to stay compliant as standards evolve.


• Reduce operational overhead: Process optimization and predictive maintenance will lower energy and equipment costs.

The best way to embrace innovation is by adopting a data-driven infrastructure. Empowered by analytics, connected water plants of all types – whether fresh water or wastewater – enable enhanced operational visibility and unprecedented control over their systems.

OneSource provides water plants with an integrated approach to process control. In other words, achieving a truly connected water plant is all about harnessing data. Most water systems already have a wide variety of data-collecting technologies deployed across their facility. The problem? The data is just sitting there, siloed from the rest of the treatment plant. Put simply, it’s not saying anything.

The FactoryTalk® software solutions from Rockwell Automation bring data to life. Fueled by analytics, FactoryTalk and other integrated tools bridge the gap between disparate field devices. In turn, they give water treatment facilities a closer look at their most important processes. With integrated control over every critical system, OneSource solutions provide:

• Increased visibility: With access to real-time analytics, integrated technologies enable you to make better, smarter decisions in every area of your water system.


• Full context: In a single platform, operators obtain detailed visualizations that put the most relevant data into context. The result? Actionable intelligence and complete understanding of your entire water system.


• Improved responsiveness: Real-time performance metrics empower you to respond to failures as quickly as possible, thus mitigating their impact on water flow. Best of all, you can plan ahead to keep up with demand and make necessary adjustments on the fly.

Likewise, integrated control is an important tool when it comes to asset management. If equipment fails, the ensuing downtime not only throws water distribution into disarray, it also comes at a significant cost to the facility.

Given that there is an industry-wide concern over the age of critical assets, it’s imperative that facilities undergo preventive maintenance. If they don’t, equipment failure could be detrimental. Thanks to our stock of innovative technologies, OneSource is prepared to answer the call. Armed with solutions from Rockwell Automation water facilities will be able to:

• Access spare parts: Through a Parts Management Agreement, OneSource stocks Rockwell Automation parts onsite to streamline maintenance activities.


• Improve asset reliability: No longer do water treatment facilities need to worry about the vulnerability of their most important systems. Integrated solutions from Rockwell Automation work in uniform to reduce downtime and create a more resilient operation. In turn, water distribution remains efficient, safe, and affordable.


• Simplify troubleshooting: Advanced analytics streamline the diagnostic process to get to the root cause of any equipment failure or disruption. Best of all, remote troubleshooting helps reduce downtime regardless of location.

• Predict maintenance needs:

  Model Predictive Control (MPC) uses real-time and historical data to help facilities make predictions and adjustments to their critical assets before they go down.



• Prolong equipment lifespans:

  Integrated Pump Monitoring (IPM) solutions from Rockwell Automation and other real-time surveillance systems allow operators to take a peek under the hood. In other words, they can maintain critical equipment to keep them up and running for longer. Process optimization strategies also decrease mechanical wear and tear, leading to fewer main breaks, lower pressures and less stress on aging assets.

Learn more about the Connected Enterprise® solutions from Rockwell Automation.

The water industry is undergoing a significant transformation. Indeed, rapidly changing workforce trends, demands, regulations and clean water standards are challenging operators to maintain pace. Today’s water treatment systems need the flexibility to keep up with these changes at a sustainable rate – especially when it comes to managing cost.

Now, perhaps more than ever, the water industry needs automated systems. Not only to ensure drinking water is compliant with industry standards or that wastewater is sufficiently potable, but to guarantee water use is affordable to consumers, too.

OneSource can help you optimize:

		Energy consumption
		The cost of asset maintenance
		Lifecycle cost
		Cost of implementation

Wastewater production is an especially energy-intensive endeavor. From sludge processing for methane gas to dissolving oxygen for microorganism growth, there are many essential wastewater processes that consume large amounts of energy.

Powered by the integrated control solutions and SCADA technologies offered by Rockwell Automation, wastewater treatment facilities are effectively monitoring the cost of their most important systems. Not only do these solutions reduce design time, they also provide enhanced diagnostic and preventive maintenance capabilities.

Likewise, PlantPAx® 5.0, the modern distributed control system (DCS) from Rockwell Automation, helps reduce operational cost through advanced process control. In doing so, water treatment facilities are able to best manage their energy consumption while reducing wear and tear on critical equipment.

Better still, Rockwell Automation's solutions are seamlessly integrated into your infrastructure. By extension, you can implement smart water solutions without needing to upend your existing hardware investments. Consequently, an automated system offers many substantial cost savings opportunities, including:

Reduced
Footprint

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The latest PlantPAx updates reduce the complexity of existing architectures. Put simply, these changes result in lower cost of ownership throughout the entire lifecycle.

Intelligent
Motor Control

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Technology from Rockwell Automation can operate a pump or valve at their most efficient speeds, thus optimizing water flow. In turn, operators can sustain their water supply while also cutting the cost of energy consumption. Moreover, water systems increase efficiency and decrease waste.

Energy
Efficiency

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Rockwell Automation's technologies optimize your most important processes to ensure no energy is ever wasted – creating major savings for your water treatment facility.

Hardware
Replacement

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Predictive maintenance capabilities use real-time data to check the health of your critical assets. These strategies prolong life spans and empower you to save big on replacing broken equipment. Best of all, you’ll save plenty of time and resources that would’ve been spent overcoming unplanned downtime.

To compare PlantPAx and other Rockwell Automation solutions, try the Rockwell Automation Product Configurator.

No matter your industry, navigating a constantly changing field of regulations can feel overwhelming. When it comes to producing clean water, staying compliant is doubly important. OneSource provides operators the automated watering system hardware they need to effectively reduce the risk of noncompliance, all while guaranteeing water quality is on par with industry guidelines.

With Rockwell Automation’s fleet of integrated solutions, your facility gains a smarter, sustainable approach to compliant water management. More importantly, deploying automated water systems can improve the quality of fresh drinking water and recycled wastewater. Best of all, OneSource’s stock of automation technologies provide the scalability needed to make real-time adjustments and reduce errors when regulations change. Technologies like FactoryTalk, PlantPAx and ControlLogix® empower you to:

• Accelerate data-retrieval: With access to 10 years of stored data, operators can quickly and easily compile reports – a major benefit for an industry with strict retrieval regulations.


• Produce more accurate reports: Advanced historical and real-time analytics not only increase process efficiency; the added visibility also affords water treatment facilities the confidence that only the most relevant and accurate information makes its way into a report. Pre-validated data, in turn, reduces the risk of error when compiling information.


• Improve water system responsiveness: Operators can leverage their analytics to immediately respond to failures. Whether it be a pipeline leak or pump failure, data empowers the water industry to tackle disruptions before they escalate.

Digital solutions are providing water treatment professionals a wide range of valuable tools. Yet, despite the business advantages of web-connected services, the issue of cybersecurity comes into question.

As massive data collectors, such internet-enabled devices are often the target of cybercriminal attack – an incident that could come at a detrimental cost to the water system. Without proper protection, a hacker could send a critical system into havoc and disrupt productivity.

OneSource provides the full gamut of Rockwell Automation solutions. Using engineered cybersecurity solutions from Rockwell Automation, we can systematically tackle cybercrime with their portfolio of integrated control technologies. Rather than outsource support services, they work with facilities to diagnose problems, mitigate risk and respond to vulnerabilities.

Together, OneSource and Rockwell Automation can help you:

		Reduce system-wide cybersecurity risk
		Troubleshoot network errors
		Maintain data security
		Comply with industry regulation

You don’t just need transformative solutions. You need a neighbor who knows how to implement them for the communities you serve.

Ready to dive in? Contact us today to see how OneSource can help simplify and streamline wastewater management.