Overview
The EDAMS Assets suite of products was extended to support the full set of services in the municipal infrastructure domain such as electricity, buildings & structures, pavement management, sanitary/storm water sewer management, and water supply management.
The newly released EDAMS Municipal Assets Infrastructure Management System supports a wide range of functionalities, which include:
- Efficient and systematic collection, storage, retrieval, management, analysis, and reporting of asset information.
- Integration and management of the asset life cycle by integrating different work processes and their associated datasets.
- Sharing of data across Municipal Departments,
- Increased operational efficiency by aiding in the planning, execution, and coordination of maintenance operations,
- And tracking and managing the information related to projects, work.
Built In Departmental Models
EDAMS Municipal Assets Infrastructure Management System is not a general-purpose systems offering only generic functionality that needs to be customized and adapted for specific data and work processes. The EDAMS system provides built-in data models and processes to support the management of a specific class of municipal assets with their associated orders, inspections, etc.
EDAMS Municipal Assets Infrastructure Management with its specialised Windows-based asset registers uses dedicated network data structures and element libraries that have been specifically designed and developed for Municipal Authorities. For example, for Electricity Departments it includes pre-defined element libraries to make provision for all the standard network elements, including transformers, protection devices, Generators and road devices, and allows the capture of all necessary attribute information. It can even assign efficiency and deterioration curve performance characteristics to individual elements.
Common Land Information System (EDAMS-LIS)
The various built in data models share a common Land Information System (EDAMS-LIS) as the foundation to define the additional processes and functionality required for the municipal departments to perform their work on maintaining property data in an integrated manner. The sharing of the EDAMS-LIS amongst Municipal Departments improves the management and integrity of property information in order to support and improve the municipality’s mission of service delivery in terms of the land management functions (e.g. land use planning and building development management; cadastral data capture and update; property management; valuations; revenue and housing).
Financial Asset Management
Municipalities are obliged to prepare asset registers in accordance with the relevant GAMAP / GRAP standards in support of the Statement of Financial Position. One of the key requirements of the accounting standard for Property, Plant and Equipment is that the register must have complete coverage of all the facilities that are under the control of the municipality, and data must be reflected at component level.
With EDAMS Municipal Assets Infrastructure Management System Municipalities can establish an asset register that will not only be compliant but also provide a common platform to support key financial management, technical management, and planning processes associated with immoveable assets. In this way, the municipality will be in a position to better manage its infrastructure, in line with recognised good practice, as a key mechanism for achieving the strategic objectives of the municipality.
Besides maintaining an accurate register of network elements and their physical and performance attributes, the system also enables financial values to be assigned to elements so depreciation of network assets can be analysed.
By monitoring each element’s individual deterioration curve, it also provides risk-of-failure analysis. And by determining the total ownership costs over the life of the asset, the system can help optimize network life-cycle costs. |
