The City of Burlington selects the Avantis solution from Invensys for asset maintenance management

Avantis solution will provide city staff with the tools to help manage the city’s many roadways, buildings, and parks through the various stages of the asset’s life cycle – planning, acquisition, operation & maintenance, and replacement


BURLINGTON, ONTARIO – January 4, 2006 – The Avantis unit of Invensys Process Systems has been selected by the City of Burlington to implement the Avantis (www.avantis.net) enterprise asset management solution for asset maintenance management in several city departments.

Among the departments to initially use the Avantis solution will be Roads and Parks Maintenance and Parks and Recreation. These two departments are responsible for maintaining the majority of the city’s buildings and facilities, 1,600 lane kilometres (992 lane miles) of roadways, more than 700 kilometres (434 miles) of sidewalks and pathways, 570 hectares (1,408 acres) of parklands, along with a wide-ranging list of other city-owned assets including 13,000 streetlights and 16,000 storm drain catch basins. Using the planning, scheduling, tracking and reporting capabilities of the Avantis system, the city anticipates more efficient and effective maintenance, and lower cost of ownership.

"Avantis will support a number of the city's operational and financial goals,” said Bob Carrington, Burlington's general manager of Community Services. “This software will assist us in the maintenance of over a billion dollars worth of public assets. Improved means of identifying, recording, and tracking issues will give us a better understanding of priority needs, help us make the most of the resources available to us, and assist us in being more responsive to our citizens. Avantis will also provide information to better plan for the ongoing renewal of the city's ageing infrastructure."

In addition to its other strengths, the Avantis solution supports the development of preventive maintenance strategies and plans that will facilitate a more proactive approach to asset maintenance. The new system will also provide the functionality and information needed to ensure compliance with evolving safety, environmental and governmental regulations.

“Municipalities are unique in that they have so many different kinds of assets to manage, and have comparatively limited resources to get the job done,” said Neil Cooper, general manager of the Avantis unit of Invensys Process Systems. “The flexibility of the Avantis solution is an ideal complement to the wide diversity of assets and projects that the City of Burlington needs to manage and maintain. The versatile and robust database will allow comprehensive information collection and analysis, which will help the city get the most out of its infrastructure. We are pleased to be working with the City of Burlington and supporting their needs on this project.”

Invensys will also provide a variety of services to the project, including assistance with the Avantis implementation, and integration with the city’s existing applications including the payroll system, financial accounting system, and geographical information system (GIS). The project is expected to be completed in fall 2006.

About The City of Burlington

The city of Burlington is located in southern Ontario, Canada, on the north shore of Lake Ontario in the south-west corner of the Greater Toronto Area (the GTA) between Hamilton and Toronto. The city is committed to providing the best possible services and resources for a municipal population of approximately 157,000 residents. With more than 59,000 homes and thousands of businesses of all sizes, the city is experiencing a period of rapid development and growth. More information can be found at www.burlington.ca.

About Avantis and Invensys Process Systems

Avantis, located on Laurentian Drive in Burlington, Ontario, is a unit of Invensys Process Systems. Avantis provides software and solutions to help organizations in today’s cost conscious environment to better focus on proactive and predictive maintenance and operations strategies to optimize asset reliability, availability, utilization and service to users.


Invensys Process Systems (http://ips.invensys.com), a business unit of Invensys plc, provides products, services and solutions for the automation and optimization of industrial and commercial processes. In addition to its rapidly expanding Global Solutions group, Invensys Process Systems includes industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware, and Avantis, whose products are installed in more than 100,000 municipal, commercial and industrial sites across the world. These range from small hybrid and batch plants and to the world’s largest refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals plants, power plants, and pulp and paper mills.

The Invensys Group (www.invensys.com) is made up of five businesses: Process Systems, APV, Eurotherm, Rail Systems and Controls. The Group is headquartered in London, England and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.


Avantis, Invensys, Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor and Wonderware are trademarks of Invensys plc, its subsidiaries, or affiliates. All other brands and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.