Plant Config
Getting started
New to this tool? Turn on Worked example (top right) to see one plant configured and scored, then turn it off to start your own. Your own plants are kept aside and come back when it is off.
The tool scores a water treatment plant against a weighted audit framework. Work through the steps in order:
- Plant Config (this tab): describe each plant's treatment train. Your choices decide which rating sets appear on the Audit tab, so a plant without fluoridation is not scored on fluoride dosing and plants with different processes stay comparable.
- Framework: the rating sets, attributes, weights and scoring guidance. It is set up for municipal drinking water treatment plants; change it only to audit a different kind of plant.
- Audit: score each attribute 0 to 10 against the guidance. The overall score (out of 1.00) updates as you go.
- Compare (Premium): every plant side by side, with the items that pull each score down most.
- Report & Save (Premium): PDF, CSV and a project file.
Here, pick a plant above (+ Plant adds one; free plans audit one plant), set its audit date, then match each selector to the real plant. Storage and dosing rating sets take the name of the chemical you choose.
Clear all (bottom of this tab, two clicks) removes every plant with its configuration, scores and notes; framework edits and display settings are kept.
The tool gives guidance only. It is structured professional judgement, not a compliance determination.
Framework
Guide: using this tab
This is the master scoring framework: rating sets (process areas), each holding weighted attributes. A rating set's weight times an attribute's weight within the set gives the attribute's model weight, and model weights drive the overall plant score.
Edit names and weights (0 to 10, in steps of 0.5) and each attribute's guidance: what it measures, what to look for, the five score anchors and common failure modes. Add or remove rating sets and attributes to suit your plant type. The process area of a rating set decides which plant configurations bring it in. Model weights are recalculated after every weight change.
It is set up for municipal drinking water treatment plants. Reset to default (two clicks) puts the framework back as supplied; scores already entered are kept.
Audit
Guide: using this tab
Score each attribute from 0 to 10 for the selected plant. Higher is better: an ideal plant scores 10 everywhere. Pick a plant above; each pill shows that plant's overall score out of 1.00.
The › beside an attribute opens its scoring guidance: what it measures, what to look for and the five score anchors. The pencil adds notes, and N/A takes an attribute out of the score where it does not apply. Click a rating set's heading to fold it away. The audit date is set on Plant Config.
The score step (whole numbers, halves or hundredths) and inline weights are in Settings.
Score colours follow the bands in Settings. Colour bands are prompts to look, not instructions to act.
Compare
Guide: using this tab
Every plant side by side across all rating sets and attributes. Higher scores are better; the overall is out of 1.00. N/A marks a rating set the plant's configuration leaves out, or an attribute marked N/A; a dash is not yet scored.
Below the table, for each plant, up to five attributes scoring under 7 that pull the overall score down most (the gap to 10 times the model weight). Export is on Report & Save.
Lowest-scoring items by plant (largest weighted effect on the overall score)
Cell colours follow the score bands in Settings. Colour bands are prompts to look, not instructions to act.
Report & Save
Guide: using this tab
Report makes a formatted PDF or CSV of the plants and sections you pick. The PDF opens in a print window laid out for printing: choose Save as PDF, and leave the browser's headers and footers off.
Save downloads one project file (.json) with every plant, configuration, score and framework edit. Open restores a saved file and replaces what is in this browser, after you confirm. This tab is the only place to export, save or open a file; keep the project file as your backup.