What you need in your Cemetery Tracking System
Hello! Welcome to another featured blog post with Novo Solutions! Are you a Cemetery Director? Do you work in the Office of the Sexton? Great, you're in the right place! Today, we're discussing the Cemetery Tracking System and what it can do for you and your operations. We know this can include tombstone maintenance, lawn maintenance, and path and street maintenance. Next, the staff you employ can optimize these operations simply because we enable their [...]
How Can Water Utility Software Serve You?
Hello! Jerome here with Novo Solutions! As a Water Utilities Director, do you face slowed operational efficiency? Are you looking for ways to improve your current procedures? Fear not, you’ve come to the right people for the best solution! Our Water Utility Software system is just what you need to jump-start your department. Our software, ShareNet, provides a flexible yet easy-to-use solution to your staff. We supply you with the tools to track your [...]
How to make your Water Utility Maintenance better
Are you a Utilities Director looking to improve your processes of maintaining your water utility assets? Maybe you're trying to format a water utility asset management plan? Managing these operations without water system asset management can become more challenging and lead to increased inefficiencies. Having the appropriate strategy in place is essential. A long time ago, tracking your Water Utility Maintenance consisted of paper orders and word-of-mouth communication. This led to misplaced work orders, so [...]
Small county expectations & the new infrastructure bill
Overview of the bill The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure asset bill has passed in the US Senate, with $550 billion of funds being allocated to America's infrastructure. If the bill is passed in the US House, cities across the country will begin to undergo a massive expansion. The plan details new job creation and sustainable solutions nationwide for different towns and their citizens. Over the next decade, it says it will create many jobs in [...]
Municipal Work Order System Vs. Other Systems
The public works of a city or small town are more important than most people realize in their daily lives. Municipal centers have a lot of moving parts that managers need to oversee at all times. As a result, water pipes can break, street signs can malfunction, maintenance costs can add up, and valuable assets can be down for prolonged periods, wasting a lot of time and money. There is a solution, however; a municipal [...]
How to Track Park Trail Maintenance Costs
Many people rely on park trails to get outside and stay active. Parks and park trails are essential parts of many communities, but they need regular park trail maintenance to continue to be usable. Park trails need to be safe and enjoyable for community members to benefit from, so ensuring they’re maintained is an important job. Maintaining park trails to the required level can become a lot of work to manage, but fortunately, park [...]
3 Ways Infrastructure Asset Management Helps with Disaster Preparedness
Unfortunately, there’s often nothing you can do to prevent a disaster from occurring. Many disasters are completely out of our hands, which can be difficult to come to terms with - it can feel like there’s nothing you can do. When disaster strikes, it often causes extensive damage to the surrounding area and significantly affects communities. Damage to the infrastructure can put citizens at serious risk and become a major safety hazard. While there may [...]
7 Benefits of Asset Management to Water Sustainability
Water assets can become extremely costly, and many municipalities aren’t equipped to provide the ongoing work needed to maintain and monitor them. Without proper maintenance, these assets can break down and require expensive repairs. This can result in a decrease in useful life. Water asset management is essential to help improve water sustainability and make the jobs of those who oversee these assets more efficient. Having a water asset management system helps maintenance staff properly [...]
How IoT Sensors are Connected with Water Asset Management
Asset management can benefit greatly from the technology available to us today. These technologies allow us to simplify our jobs, manage assets more effectively, and can help cut costs in the long run. Technology, like IoT devices, plays an important part in our society, including in government organizations and businesses. One type of IoT device that is becoming vital in asset management is sensors. IoT sensors are commonly used in asset management today, including in [...]
What Does the Management Part of Work Order Management Software Truly Mean?
While managing large municipality projects, Municipal Public Works and Utility Directors are responsible for vast amounts of infrastructure assets. For example, parks, street signs, waterworks, and several other assets fall under their charge. These resources all require regular maintenance and each maintenance job requires a separate work order. Fortunately, individuals and teams can utilize work order management software to manage and track it all. There are numerous benefits to this type of software, but before [...]