Ike Nwabah
Water utilities face rate scrutiny, aging infrastructure, and severe resource constraints, making it essential to have streamlined asset planning workflows for more defensible capital improvement plans. This latest release in Info360 Asset unifies asset planning across the entire water and wastewater utility network, empowering utility leaders to justify asset investment decision with greater transparency while enabling engineering service providers (ESPs) to deliver scalable, repeatable client workflows.
Four new ways to strengthen your capital planning workflows
This release introduces four capabilities engineered to eliminate manual data manipulation, increase decision confidence, and bring real-time intelligence into your long-term capital strategy.
1. Ask questions of your asset data with Autodesk Assistant
You can eliminate time-consuming data retrieval and manual spreadsheet workarounds by interacting with your assets using natural language to surface instant insights for more immediate action.
Identify uninspected mainlines, fetch datasets to generating network maps, build custom skills, and export comprehensive asset data views beyond what is available in the standard user interface.
2. Connect ArcGIS Enterprise with Info360 Asset
Now, you can connect directly to your organization’s on-premises ArcGIS Enterprise environment. This allows you to work from a single GIS record under your utility’s existing security and access controls while leveraging Esri Maps directly inside Info360 Asset.
Earlier this year, we standardized the Info360 platform on Esri as the GIS system of record across our Info360 apps. Now, your asset-specific insights and data are fully synced so decisions are made with greater confidence.
3. Build more accurate costs into Rehab Decision Trees
Move beyond flat-rate estimates by mapping pipe material, diameter, and network attributes directly to specific dollar-per-unit costs. These entries dynamically feed your Rehab Decision Trees, delivering more accurate project costing for board-ready budget forecasts and decisions.
4. Forecast water asset deterioration across your network
Last year, we expanded Deterioration Modeling capabilities. Now, you can extend failure probability and remaining useful life (RUL) forecasting to your water distribution networks by analyzing historical asset, inspection, failure, and operational data out of the box.
In addition, when asset data is missing or incomplete for water pipes, Autodesk now offers PipeiD survival curves that utilities and ESPs can use to create more accurate modeling and forecasts. Clear, transparent calculation views give non-technical planners the visibility needed to prioritize and defend replacement strategies over arbitrary age-based scheduling.
From reactive maintenance to proactive planning
Transitioning from reactive maintenance to proactive lifecycle management requires an environment where assets, risk models, condition scores, and financial calculations stay continuously aligned. By grounding your capital plans with real-time asset data, you can clearly communicate risk, defend every investment decision, and protect critical community infrastructure for the long haul.
There’s a lot more in this release
We’ve created a batch of quick-fire videos that walk you through the highlights of this big release on our YouTube channel, where you’ll also find a video playlist of The latest on Info360 apps.