Organizational Review Of Plant Automation Group

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was made by the General Manager to center the PAG in the
Information Technology Department (ITD).

In September 1994, the Joint Board contracted with Ernst & Young to produce a
"Management Review of the Proposed Plant Automation Group for the Sanitation
Districts of Orange County". Their report recommended the location be with ITD
but noted that for the duration of the J-31 project, some engineering-related
activities would be involved and require close coordination with the Engineering
Department. As late as July 1995 when Ernst & Young performed the Finance
Function Review (which included the Information Services Division), they echoed
their previous recommendation but provided a timeline of approximately two years
to revisit the issue of PAG's location. However, this was not a firm
recommendation.

Over the past several months, a number of problems have made it clear that the
two year time frame identified in the Ernst & Young report may have been
optimistic. The problems of ...

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development and programming, HMI
development, and data communications required for PLCs. It is also necessary to
perform software development for process control systems, either personally or
by assuming oversight responsibility for contractual development. Once a system
is in place, this is a task which cannot be contracted out due to the highly
customized nature of the process control software (Square D, CRISP SCADA) design.


The Plant Automation Group is also required to be on-call 24 hours a day in
support of the Operations and Maintenance Departments; and is a resource to all
other departments, providing technical support which primarily focuses on
control system and data ...

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