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WaterGEMS

Water distribution design and analysis software

OpenFlows WaterGEMS provides you with a comprehensive yet easy-to-use decision-support tool for water distribution networks. The software helps improve your knowledge of how infrastructure behaves as a system, how it reacts to operational strategies, and how it should grow as population and demands increase.

From fire flow and water quality simulations, to criticality and energy cost analysis, OpenFlows WaterGEMS has everything you need in a flexible multiplatform environment.

OpenFlows WaterGEMS provides numerous software capabilities for:
  • Intelligent planning for system reliability: The capability of the water network to adequately serve its customers must be evaluated whenever system growth is anticipated. With OpenFlows WaterGEMS, effectively identify potential problem areas, accommodate service area growth, and plan capital improvements.
  • Optimized operations for system efficiency: Realistically modeling the operation of complex water systems can be difficult. With OpenFlows WaterGEMS, model pump accurately, optimize pumping strategies, and plan shutdowns and routine operations to minimize disruption.
  • Reliable asset renewal decision support for system sustainability: When it comes time to renew or replace your water infrastructure, the amount of asset-related information you must consider can be overwhelming. OpenFlows WaterGEMS capabilities such as Pipe Renewal Planner makes the task much easier by analyzing and comparing a wide range of variables to prioritize renewal decisions.

SewerGEMS

Wastewater and stormwater management software

If building and preparing your sewer models feels like a never-ending task, OpenFlows SewerGEMS software is for you.

OpenFlows SewerGEMS streamlines the modeling process, so that you have more time for solving wastewater engineering problems, such as improving capacity and limiting sewer overflows, which ultimately enable utilities to comply with sewer regulations set by regulatory agencies.

For more than three decades, OpenFlows SewerGEMS has provided utilities and wastewater professionals like you with advanced engineering tools to plan, design, maintain, and operate sanitary and combined sewer systems, including:
  • Engineering decision guidance tools: Leverage OpenFlows SewerGEMS’ what-if scenario management tools to gain a better understanding of the behavior of your wastewater system, improving decision making and response time.
  • Improved model accuracy: A well calibrated model decreases the risks of making poor decisions by ensuring that the model uses the best available data. OpenFlows SewerGEMS calibration tools such as SCADA integration enable you to rely on your model results.
  • Increased information mobility: OpenFlows SewerGEMS’ full GIS, CAD, and SCADA interoperability enables the cost-effective sharing and flow of information between utilities’ design, engineering, GIS, and operation departments, and their consultants. You can leverage the data that the utility invested in once and reuse across departments.

HAMMER

Water hammer and transient analysis software

Every time a pump or valve is operated, potentially dangerous transients are introduced in your water distribution or wastewater system. Unchecked, transients can have catastrophic consequences on your pipes and equipment, operators, and customers.

Water utilities, municipalities, and engineering firms around the world trust OpenFlows HAMMER’s computationally rigorous engine an easy-to-use interface to efficiently identify, manage, and mitigate the risks associated with transients.

Identify critical points in the system that need protection and facilitate sound system design with OpenFlows HAMMER modeling tools:
  • Focus on mitigating surge, not on the modeling process: Streamlined model building and management enables you to jump-start the model building process and manage your model effectively, so that you can focus on developing the most appropriate strategy for controlling and limiting hydraulic transients.
  • Simulate transient precisely to improve the quality of your decisions: Decrease the risk of approximating the behavior of protective devices and rotating equip ment. Rough estimation of transients can be too costly. OpenFlows HAMMER helps you accurately simulate the impact of a wide range of surge protection de vices and rotating equipment (pumps and turbines).
  • Leverage existing CAD and GIS data for improved design productivity and to enrich the system or model that utility personnel rely on.

WaterCAD

Water distribution design and analysis software

Utilities and engineering firms around the world trust OpenFlows WaterCAD as a reliable decision-support capability for their infrastructure. Design new water systems and manage existing water networks effectively to reduce disruption risks and energy use. OpenFlows WaterCAD’s ease-of-use helps you successfully plan, design, and operate water distribution systems:

  • Increase capacity to adequate service levels.
  • Supply clean potable water without interruption.
  • Deliver high quality designs cost effectively.
OpenFlows WaterCAD helps you improve design productivity, with:
  • Streamlined model building: Leverage and import virtually any external data format to jumpstart the model accurately, easily allocate water demands, and automate terrain extraction and node allocation.
  • Organized assessment of alternatives: Assess and compare an unlimited number of physical, design, water demand, network topology, and operational scenarios.
  • CAD interoperability: Model in a familiar platform, leveraging CAD capabilities and shortcuts when using OpenFlows WaterCAD from within Mi croStation or AutoCAD. You can also choose to use OpenFlows WaterCAD as a stand-alone application, for additional flexibility.

OpenFlows WaterCAD is a subset of OpenFlows WaterGEMS. Use OpenFlows WaterGEMS to also run your model from within ArcGIS and for optimization modules (calibration, design, pump scheduling, pipe assessment, SCADA integration, and network simplification)

SewerCAD

Sanitary sewer modeling and design software

How big and deep should this pipe be? Do we have enough capacity to serve these customers? These are the typical problems that OpenFlows SewerCAD can help you solve.

Ideal for system design and the rehabilitation of sanitary sewers, OpenFlows SewerCAD will help you invest your capital improvement funds wisely with a wealth of easy-to-use and powerful modeling capabilities for building and preparing your sewer models effectively.

OpenFlows SewerCAD provides thousands of engineers at utilities and consulting firms around the world with tools to efficiently improve the quality of their designs:
  • Automated design and rehabilitation: Confidently recommend the most cost-effective pipe sizes and invert elevations, while meeting design restrictions, using SewerCAD’s constraint-based design of gravity pipes and structures for sanitary sewers.
  • Improved design productivity: OpenFlows SewerCAD’s ability to run from within MicroStation or AutoCAD enables you to model in a platform you are more familiar with and to take advantage of CAD environments and tools (e.g., superior layout, drafting capabilities).
  • Improved decision making: Sound decision-making for your sanitary sewer system requires the consideration of multiple engineering scenari os, which is enabled by OpenFlows SewerCAD’s what-if scenario management.