The concept of automated optimal management of objects’ functioning is not conventional yet and not supported by specialized software products. Nevertheless, there are custom-made databases for handling inventory functions.

 

Software suite for optimal management (SOM) developed by AGA Group, Inc includes:

- objects inventory, control of objects’ condition states

- optimal budget distribution for exploitation and renovation

- creation of optimal renovation and maintenance plans

- price control for goods/services supplied/provided by suppliers/contractors

- control of road-map, terms and workmanship in respect to objects exploitation, maintenance and renovation

- archiving, grouping, searching and analyzing information

 

Having common methodological base, all products are developed specifically for particular industries Currently, the closest analog of a SOM is an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems. ERP, unlike SOM, is not optimal management system but information retrieval/lookup application. ERP lacks technical conditions assessment and service life forecasting features which are the basis of optimal planning in SOM. At the same time SOM cannot be used for bookkeeping, calculation etc.

 

Currently there are 7 products under development.

 

Name	Purpose
SOM-TS	Maintenance of traffic infrastructure (bridges, pedestrian walkways, overpasses, tunnels, quays), waterways and rivers
SOM-RD	Highway maintenance
SOM-U	City Utility Lines
SOM-R	Dwelling Maintenance
SOM-T	Small Town Infrastructure

 

Structurally SOM software consists of 7 modules:

- “Catalogue” module – library for standardized object description and stucturization;

- Inventory module – responsible for adequate object description;

- Inspection module – responsible for assessment and tracking of condition state of every object defined on inventory list;

- Analytical module – providing forecast of change in objects’ condition state vs. time, depending upon selected maintenance strategy;

- Financial-analytical module – providing optimal planning and budget distribution;

- Managing module – controlling implementation of approved maintenance, repair and rehabilitation strategy;

- Archiving module – archiving, lookup and statistical processing of information with possible manual override;

The product based on original methodological and analytical solutions, such as:

- innovative multi-level objects’ description;

- establishing unique conformity between object’s consumer-properties and maintenance/repair/renovation events;

- automatic control and adjustment of exploitation characteristics depending upon concrete usage of the object.