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Public Works Asset Management Software

Smarter Infrastructure Asset Operations Start Here.

STREAMLINE MAINTENANCE WORKFLOWS, PRIORITIZE FUNDING BASED ON RISK AND CRITICALITY, AND IMPROVE CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT.

Built by professional engineers with extensive industry experience, NEXGEN’s Public Works Asset Management software gives government municipalities the technology to optimize and better protect their entire asset inventory.

At the forefront are preventive on-demand maintenance activities informed by highly-targeted predictive analytics, extending the life cycle of every critical asset that your constituents rely on everyday—from street lights and signage to major highways and bridges.

Intelligent Asset Management Applications for Public Works

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ASSET INVENTORY

NEXGEN’s asset inventory module gives you the tools to organize your unique asset hierarchies without any limitations. Assets can be easily imported from an Esri GIS database, allowing municipalities to spatially manage their infrastructure and create dynamic reports.


  • Asset Management Intelligence

  • Real-Time Performance Analysis

  • Esri-Centric GIS Integration
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CONDITION ASSESSMENT

NEXGEN’s condition assessment module enables you to facilitate sound and consistent asset management practices across your infrastructure. With Asset Condition Index (ACI) scores automatically calculated to determine the risk probability of asset failures, you have the actionable intelligence to optimize the life cycle and performance of every asset.


  • Asset Condition Index (ACI)

  • Risk and Life Cycle Planning

  • Real-Time Reporting Functionality

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WORK ORDERS AND PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE

Preventive maintenance work order management is fully automated with NEXGEN’s robust maintenance management system. Cyclical work orders are triggered by schedules or run times to ensure peak maintenance efficiency and prevent any asset downtime. NEXGEN’s Predictive Maintenance Dashboard also gives you real-time access to key scheduling and performance information.


  • Automated Predictive Maintenance

  • Real-Time Reporting and Analytics

  • Field Maintenance Mobile Apps
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ASSET MANAGEMENT AND LIFE CYCLE PLANNING

Life cycle planning, funding forecast, and capital planning prioritization modules provide you with actionable insights, enabling smarter budgeting practices to support long-term asset management requirements. You can be confident that your organization is investing appropriate resources in the highest priority projects with predictive analytics reporting functionality and deeper insights.


  • Capital Planning

  • Budget and Planning Tool

  • FEMA Reimbursement and Compliance Reports

NEXGEN CASE STUDY

Driving new
efficiencies,
delivering cost
savings

“NEXGEN Asset Management’s features and functionalities exceed the City’s requirements, [especially] their ability to deliver a quality asset management solution on time and within budget.”

SAVITA CHAUDHARY, DIRECTOR, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CITY OF BERKELEY

ASSET MANAGEMENT FOR PUBLIC WORKS

Why public works
leaders choose NEXGEN.

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The City of Corona concluded 2017 with less than a 0.01% variance in inventory value from both, shelf-to-NEXGEN and NEXGEN-to-general-ledger with RFID technology integrated with NEXGEN software to optimize their warehouse assets.

Public Works Frequently Asked Questions

Using a single, multi-division public works software system is a wholly beneficial enterprise solution, as it allows for organizational transparency and streamlined communication between divisions. In other words, by utilizing a single system, every division is able to view and pull information they need without having to deal with several different software systems with segregated data.

Having an enterprise solution for public works allows all divisions to use the same platform or software, which eliminates the stresses of using multiple softwares within a single organization. Using a singular software allows for organizations to easily pass work between divisions as well as to roll up data from multiple divisions into singular reports without having to collect data from different software systems.

Public works CMMS often encompass all three of these functions. NEXGEN itself offers asset inventory, work order management, and preventive maintenance scheduling capabilities, all of which work in tandem to collect and decipher data with which you can make the smartest decisions for your assets. This includes the ability to pull up detailed information about your assets, such as their attributes and their locations, the ability to create and manage work orders so you can perform maintenance on those assets, and the ability to schedule out work orders to fire automatically through preventive maintenance planning so you can always be on top of asset maintenance instead of reacting to unexpected asset failures and downtimes.

Public works CMMS facilitate data collection, analysis, and reporting by acting as an extensive recordkeeping solution. As a CMMS, NEXGEN does so by offering asset tracking, AM planning, and reporting capabilities so users can have a completely transparent view of the cost of maintaining their assets.

GIS helps public works keep track of their assets as seen on a map. The NEXGEN GIS in particular stores data for both horizontal and vertical assets, which is beneficial to public works since they deal with maintaining both types of assets in their day-to-day.

There are several different considerations for selecting public works software. These include (1) ease of use, (2) efficiency gains, and (3) asset management intelligence. The first point – an easy-to-use user interface – tends to be the highest priority for users, especially since this software will be used daily. Efficiency gains are also a huge consideration, as budgeting and cost-to-outcome are always a concern for organizations. Finally, the last consideration – asset management intelligence – is a big one, since the ultimate goal of implementing a CMMS is to be able to make informed, smart decisions about assets using preexisting data. Implement a CMMS with weak asset management intelligence, and the whole organization falls apart.

There are two ways in which using a public works CMMS helps with budgeting, cost tracking, and financial management: maintenance management and life cycle planning. NEXGEN helps with maintenance management through thorough job costing and cost tracking so you know exactly how much money it takes to manage, repair, and replace assets. On the other hand, to facilitate intelligent life cycle planning, NEXGEN forecasts funding requirements for the future by telling users how much money is needed for a project and supporting adequate planning so as to aid the entire infrastructure’s future.

There are three challenges organizations typically encounter when adopting and utilizing public works CMMS: change management, organizational alignment, and data quality. Change management is a top concern – those who have to switch to using a new CMMS after relying on paper on a different software almost never embrace the use of a new software. In the same vein, organizational alignment is also a big concern, as getting users to understand the reasons behind using a new software is no simple task. Finally, data quality is also a challenge in that the cleanup process behind data migration when switching from one software to another has the potential to delay the migration process.

Typically, successful implementations will successfully tackle and overcome one of the three items listed above: change management, organizational alignment, and data quality. In terms of NEXGEN specifically, NEXGEN recognizes that implementation is a process that requires care and counters these barriers by fulfilling the roles of both implementer and developer, thereby avoiding the need to hand data off to middlemen (like implementation firms). This contributes to continuity and sustainability throughout the whole implementation process.

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