SIMPLE is a web based asset management knowledge tool set hosted by the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF). It is an intuitive and user-friendly set of on-line process and practice guidelines, templates and decision support tools designed for asset management practitioners, SIMPLE can:
- Simplify and guide the development of effective Enterprisewide Asset Management Plans, and
- Provide practical implementation guidelines for agencies to assess and drive meaningful improvements in asset
management for Water and Wastewater Infrastructure.
As a knowledge management system, it also makes asset management principles and practices comprehensible and promotes information exchange among practitioners with various needs and experience levels (through chat rooms, technical forums etc.). The SIMPLE on line knowledge base has undergone a favourable
peer-review and validation process through a beta testing program involving utility agencies from around the world. WERF and the Water Research Foundation (WRF) have also partnered to create an Asset Management Self Assessment Tool (SAM-GAP) tailored to the North American water utility industry. This paper will present the SIMPLE tool and provide examples of how it has been used by Asset Managers to assist them in developing AM plans and to provide the knowledge base for practitioners to increase their competence levels. Click here to read more