City of New Bedford Increases Water and Wastewater Treatment Reliability with iFIX

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MODERN OPERATIONS
HIGHER RELIABILITY
INCREASED EFFICIENCY

Customer Information

Introduction

Company

City of New Bedford Water and Wastewater Divisions

Industry

Water & Wastewater

Products

iFIX, HMI/SCADA, Proficy Industrial Software

SCADA upgrade to modernize operations
 
The City of New Bedford Water and Wastewater Treatment Divisions includes the fifth largest wastewater facility in Massachusetts.  Their water treatment plant was built in the early 1970s, and the wastewater facility was built in the early 1990s.  With outdated technology, the city needed to upgrade and modernize the water and wastewater treatment plants’ control and communications systems.   They decided to upgrade their entire SCADA system with GE Vernova’s iFIX HMI/SCADA for monitoring and control.
 
The team at the City of New Bedford worked with GE Vernova and trusted partner, AutomaTech, for the full deployment of the iFIX HMI/SCADA system from design to implementation. An important step they took was to include the operators of the City of New Bedford Water and Wastewater in the design process, so when it came time to go live, they had the tools and knowledge they needed for a seamless transition.
 
“The reliability is certainly there and the speed at which we can change things too. The way it’s set up now, there’s more interfaces throughout the facility that the operators can go in and make changes to the process as they’re working. The reliability of the system, the ease of operation, and ease of maintenance of the system are paramount,” said James Ricci, Superintendent of Water, City of New Bedford. “The sophistication of the system, being able to bring in all the control points, and make it work, obviously needed talented people with expertise to do that.”

"There is a lot of flexibility, a lot more reliability and ease of going to a company like [GE Vernova] for the support including technical support, and hardware they provide. It is where we want to be 20 years from now."

James Ricci

Superintendent of Water, City of New Bedford

GE Vernova
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Results
  • Higher reliability with SCADA system upgrade to monitor and control facilities
  • Ease of operations and maintenance
  • Better time to insight
  • Increased efficiency
  • Collect data for analysis
  • Reduced risk
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