The Failure Experience Improvement System (FEIS) is a software tool that was developed in order to contribute to a minimization of hazardous events and failures within water supply systems and thus to achieve increased water safety. Based on the analysis of failure systems by applying Social Network Analysis (SNA) to the water supply infrastructure, the FEIS enables water utilities to identify causes and effects of failure events and to locate vulnerable points in their infrastructure. Failure events and the relations between them are the basis for the FEIS database. This database draws upon information on failure events which have occurred in practice at water utilities in Austria and on a literature review and survey of guidelines. The FEIS, which is accessed online, is currently used by six Austrian water utilities for development and test purposes. It provides both graphical visualization of the failure network and analytical indicators to evaluate failure events. In this way, it supports the utilities in identifying corrective actions in order to minimize the probability of failure occurrence and to limit the damage to the system once a failure has occurred.
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November 07 2011
Failure Experience Improvement System (FEIS) for water supply systems
Aditya Lukas;
1Institute of Sanitary Engineering and Water Pollution Control, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Wien, Austria
E-mail: aditya.lukas@boku.ac.at
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Ernest Mayr;
Ernest Mayr
1Institute of Sanitary Engineering and Water Pollution Control, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Wien, Austria
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Max Ruhri;
Max Ruhri
2FAS Research, Network Analysis for Science and Business, Müllnergasse 3/1, 1090 Wien, Austria
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Harald Katzmair;
Harald Katzmair
2FAS Research, Network Analysis for Science and Business, Müllnergasse 3/1, 1090 Wien, Austria
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Reinhard Perfler
Reinhard Perfler
1Institute of Sanitary Engineering and Water Pollution Control, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Wien, Austria
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Journal of Hydroinformatics (2012) 14 (3): 646–658.
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Received:
October 03 2010
Accepted:
August 03 2011
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Aditya Lukas, Ernest Mayr, Max Ruhri, Harald Katzmair, Reinhard Perfler; Failure Experience Improvement System (FEIS) for water supply systems. Journal of Hydroinformatics 1 July 2012; 14 (3): 646–658. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2011.125
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