HydroVantage is a capital-investment, maintenance-planning decision-support software package. It helps executives, engineers and planners to evaluate equipment-intervention schemes, optimize investment timing and prioritize capital spending. It is a reliable and straightforward risk-based asset management software designed for the hydropower industry.

HydroVantage can be used to:

• Develop capital-expenditure plans for hydro power stations
• Analyze and compare investment strategies, including:
  • equipment rehabilitation and upgrades
  • equipment replacement
  • purchase of spare parts
  • installation of monitoring equipment
• Assess the cost-effectiveness of preventive maintenance plans
• Determine single or multiple component life cycle strategies
• Study specific risk-exposure situations
• Undertake deferred investment analyses

HydroVantage is unique in the market place because it:

• takes into account the costs associated with the risk of equipment failures along with maintenance costs, capital costs and associated benefits
• controls the judgment bias traditionally associated with capital-expenditure planning