Water and Wastewater Maintenance Field Guide

The water and wastewater industry is under pressure. Aging assets, rising compliance demands, workforce gaps, and environmental challenges are making it harder to stay ahead.

For many teams, this leads to reactive maintenance—driving up downtime, costs, and risk. Utilities can’t afford to operate this way any longer.

The good news: our Modern Maintenance Guide for the Water and Wastewater Industry helps teams move from reactive to resilient.

What you'll learn:

Identify the root causes keeping your maintenance team stuck in reactive mode
Assess your current maintenance maturity
Identify your critical assets to avoid risks
Take steps towards proactive modern maintenance

Plus, read firsthand success stories from other water utility companies who navigated their way out of reactive maintenance.

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Topic Spotlight

Overcoming challenges holding water utilities back

Uncover where aging assets, workforce turnover, environmental stress, and compliance demands are creating reactive maintenance, increasing downtime, and putting service reliability at risk.

Building a preventive maintenance program that works

Learn how, moving from reactive to preventive maintenance requires scheduling work based on risk, and using data to reduce unplanned downtime—without overloading already stretched teams.

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Identify critical at risk assets

Not every asset carries the same level of risk. Learn how to identify critical assets so you can focus on preventive efforts where failures create the biggest impact on safety, compliance, and service continuity.

Understanding your maintenance maturity

This guide includes a self‑assessment tool to help you evaluate current maintenance practices and identify the most impactful next steps toward proactive, reliable maintenance.

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Rockwell Automation is backed by 120+ years of technological leadership as the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation.

Fiix CMMS was created for maintenance professionals, with over 400 years of maintenance experience on staff.

When Fiix CMMS and Rockwell Automation’s product portfolio are used together, utilities like the water and wastewater industry gain a closed-loop approach to asset health.

Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Optix platform can facilitate machine integrations with your CMMS, allowing you to achieve condition-based maintenance on critical assets. It’s also a powerful tool for visualizing asset health and status through human-machine interfaces (HMIs).