Software helps improve plant data management
Problem: An aging SCADA system and a decrease in staff left an Ohio wastewater treatment plant with data management issues. Multiple data sources including SCADA printouts, spreadsheets, word-processed documents, operator logs and bench sheets led to data being manually manipulated multiple times, causing issues in reporting and analysis. Analyzing a single parameter over a year meant opening 12 months of spreadsheets, copying and pasting from each month into a new spreadsheet, and writing the formulas to achieve the desired results. This made it difficult to see trends and collect and evaluate historical data. It also
