Maintaining a detailed and accurate logbook is an important practice and an effective tool in running any water system. Traditionally operators have handwritten this important information in physical logbooks that can get lost, damaged, or stored on a shelf never to be seen again. Imagine the usefulness of having years of detailed log entries, information and history about your water system that could easily be accessed and searched anywhere and at any time. - Integrating an electronic logbook within your SCADA system allows operators the ability to make log entries from anywhere throughout your water system or treatment plant. This logbook can protect information from being deleted or altered after the entry has been entered which makes it secure. Because it is in electronic format the entries are easy to work with and it becomes readily searchable. - This presentation will demonstrate how to integrate an electronic logbook into your SCADA system and show examples of how this has and can be done and how it could benefit your utility.
