AWWA IMT98030 Advanced User Interface Simplifies Complex Maintenance Systems

Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 01/01/1998

Cao, Steve T.; Walters, Gregory S.; Wagner, Dave

Full Description

This paper describes a customized maintenance management software application that the City of Lawrence, Kansas, uses in their wastewater and water treatment plants. Called the Lawrence Maintenance Manager, it is a customized equipment maintenance management application developed using Microsoft Access 8.0, which is a non-proprietary relational database software. The features of this networked application are: uses group level security to ensure data integrity; tracks information on equipment, vendors, maintenance labor cost, and employees; assigns/schedules preventative maintenance; requests work orders for equipment; uses a customized report wizard to generate summary reports; and, uses a data explorer to provide user friendly navigation of data in the application. Topics discussed are: database data structure; user interface; reporting features; and, networking and security.

Product Details

Published: 01/01/1998 ISBN(s): 0898679591 Number of Pages: 7 File Size: 1 file , 92 KB