WWEM 2018 - Flow Forum (Free to attend)

The Water Industry is heading towards a "digital future" and at the centre of this future is the use of instrumentation. An example of this is flow and the control of flow at the industry's wastewater treatment works. The next Asset Management Period sees the industry's largest ever programme of works surrounding of installing flow measurement and control systems ensuring that the treatment works around the country treat all of the flow that they should do. This Asset Management Period we have seen the installation of Event Duration Monitoring Devices in the wastewater collection network. The strategy obvious, to ensure that the treatment works are treating the maximum amount of flow that they need to.

At the same time that the industry is installing instrumentation to help to manage these systems it is suffering from a shortage in skilled instrumentation & control specialists and it is by going back to basics with instrumentation that the industry will move forward with its "Smart" or "Digital future". It is through this that collaboration through organisations such as the Water Industry Process Automation & Control Group and International Labmate who organise WWEM that we, as an industry can help to go back to basics, help to develop the instrumentation skills within the industry and spread the knowledge around good practices in instrumentation and process control that we ensure that the industry can reap the benefits that a Smart or Digital industry will bring to the industry as a whole.