C3 Global Asset Management in the Oil and Gas Industry
Ensuring the continuous, safe and profitable operation of oil and gas assets
global
asset performance management
www.c3global.com
Contents About C3 global
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Key Features
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Calculations
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Trending, graphs and plots
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Visualisation
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Dashboards
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Reporting
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Features summary
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Corrosion
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Production chemistry, Chemical Management and Stock control
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Environmental Monitoring and Emissions Control
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Integrity Management
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Subsea Asset Integrity Management
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Alarm and Alert Management
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Integrity Operating Window
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About C3 global C3 global, a based UK company, with offices
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Corrosion Management
Asset Performance Management systems and
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Topsides Integrity Management
expertise to the oil and gas industry since 1996.
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Sub-sea Integrity Management
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Chemical Management, Tank Tracking &
in Australia and USA, has been providing
In that time we have installed our solution, Amulet, in thousands of up-stream and downstream oil & gas facilities around the world. This high rate of adoption of our systems
Stock Control •
Control
and advice has occurred through migration marketing. Users like the technology and the
Environmental Management & Emissions
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Workforce Management
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Alarm & Alert Management
money in research and development rather
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Integrity Operating Window
than marketing. So, while we might not be a
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Dashboards, Reporting & Corporate
benefits it brings to their business so they tell their colleagues. C3 global has invested its
household name we are frequently benchmarked
Communications
as ‘best in breed’. engineers, chemists, corrosion specialists, C3 global has achieved this by working closely with our oil & gas clients over the years. Together we have developed a set of
technicians and managers make decisions with confidence, enabling them to focus on where a difference made will result in the biggest gain.
applications, tool sets, calculations, techniques and reports which meet the specific needs of the oil & gas industry. This has resulted in a set of processes and methodologies designed to ensure the continuous, safe and profitable operation of oil & gas assets.
Amulet has interfaces to control system historians, SCADA packages, financial and planning packages, laboratory systems, corrosion devices, sand devices, data loggers, other databases, spreadsheets – indeed any data source you use can act as an input or
C3 global provides a large number of self-
output source for Amulet.
contained modules which can be fully integrated to provide an unsurpassed level of asset management and production assurance.
Key Features
Amulet has standard web, excel wizard and dataform interfaces to further simplify the process of importing disparate data. This connectivity means that your data no longer
Amulet has been designed to operate in the
lives in disparate silos and ensures that all data
oil & gas industry’s data intense environment.
is viewed and analysed in context.
Amulet provides a consolidated view of asset performance data. It provides ‘One version of the truth’ which enables production and process
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Calculations At the heart of Amulet is a powerful calculation
calculations or models. This means if your
engine capable of performing the most complex
engineers or chemists use particular applications
of calculations and logical operations. Every
such as scale modelling or corrosion models these
C3 global oil and gas system comes pre-
can connect directly with C3 global and use real
configured with the appropriate industry specific
data as their inputs.
calculations built in. So whether it’s corrosion, integrity or chemical management, the necessary calculations and reports are ready to go once they are connected to the correct data sources.
Properties of data may also be included in calculations and searches e.g. (in plain English) ‘Show me all category 1 risks in alarm this year to date’.
Complex calculations and models can be
Trending, graphs and plots
developed by engineers without the need
Amulet comes equipped with a comprehensive
to burden IT departments with requests for
trending and graphing package the output of
assistance. No programming or database
which is equally effective for data analysis and
knowledge is required to drive the calculator. If
for use in reports and presentations. Data can
required, C3 global can supply the necessary
be viewed graphically or in tabular format. All
engineering expertise to help you develop more
data, graphs and plots can be exported to popular
complex calculations and reports.
desktop packages such as Word, Excel and Power Point. Amulet also supports other application
The calculator can also handle input from and output to external applications, DLLs,
formats such as those used on Linux or Macintosh platforms.
a powerful engine capable of performing the most complex of calculations and logical operations…
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The usual range of line, bar, pie and multiple axes plot types are supported. Data can be viewed over time periods from seconds to years and compared over time periods such as this month against last month or this time last year. Live data feeds can also be plotted in real time when required.
Visualisation The key to making data useful is visualisation. In addition to extensive graphing and charting tools Amulet also provides powerful and easy-touse data visualisation tools. Amulet is capable of handling and representing geospatial data based on latitude and longitude or Grid position. It can interface with GPS/GPRS tagged equipment and report and display position on a map interface in real time. Measured and/or calculated data can be associated with these locations and also displayed on a map-based interface.
a powerful set of dashboard Creation tools which allow any data, calculation or report to be presented to users in the way that best suits them… calculation or report to be presented to users in the way that best suits them. This means that managers, engineers, chemists and technicians
In addition P&ID tagged CAD drawings can be
can all have their own view of the data. These
referenced and displayed inside Amulet once again
dashboards are available on the desktop via a
associated with data which can be overlaid on the
web browser. Customisation is easy if you have
drawings. Process diagrams such as that shown
the necessary permissions, although many of our
below can also be used and data again can be
clients leave this level of customisation to their
overlaid on the image.
IT departments for data security reasons. No programming or database knowledge is required to
This visualisation capability can be delivered on the desktop, via the Web or on smart devices such as PDAs, iPhones or Blackberries. All standard graphical formats are supported as are IE, Firefox and Opera Web browsers.
build dashboards.
Dashboards are limited only by your imagination. They can be graphical (as in the example below), purely text-based or even contain photographs or video. Dashboards give users whatever it is they
Dashboards
need to be more effective in their job.
Dashboards are an increasingly useful way
Reporting
to distribute data and information within an
Most data needs to be included in a report at
organisation. Amulet has a powerful set of dashboard creation tools which allow any data,
some time or another. Amulet makes the task of reporting very efficient. Once set up the production 5
Features summary of reports can be automated. Amulet clients
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Interface to any hardware, system or device
have saved days off reporting time each month
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Consolidation of data - “One Version of the Truth”
by making best use of the automatic reporting
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Tailored data views e.g. managers, engineers, operators etc.
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Calculations, trending and modelling, ‘what if’ scenarios
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Graphical & tabular views of data
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Unlimited property tags with powerful property query tool
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Manual data entry
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Import/export to Excel & other popular packages
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Mimics/process diagrams with ‘live’ labels, (mimics can also be web based)
are produced, can be posted to the web, emailed, or sent
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Standard & Ad Hoc reporting
to smart phones and devices automatically, either as a
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Database templates - self learning
one off or regularly scheduled event.
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Powerful calculations engine
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Boolean operators
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I/O with external models
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Customer built mimics & web reports
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Web views
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Auto e-mail & scheduled reports
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SMS alerts
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Share-point web compatible
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Database API enables user chosen tool reporting
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Web, mimic & e-mail support for iPhone, Blackberry & ‘smart’ phone
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Reporting
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Geospatial view of assets & data
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Real time reporting
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Drill down to detail & data
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Report generation wizards
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Interface to external work scheduling packages
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Interface to external financial packages
tools. The average saving across the users of the application has been reported as 50% of engineers’ time. Amulet has ‘wizards’ for helping you produce reports and can output reports straight into Word or Excel. Reports can be posted automatically onto company intranet portals or Share-point repositories.
Since Amulet runs on an Oracle or MS SQL Server database all standard third party reporting products can also be used to produce reports. All reports, however they
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Corrosion Amulet was designed to be independent of the
laboratories so that we understand the data
corrosion instrument suppliers. This enables one
requirements for an effective corrosion mitigation
software package to handle all corrosion data
program. All of this knowledge and experience
irrespective of the chosen instrumentation or data
means that Amulet is a safe choice for any corrosion
logger. Amulet will also use process and laboratory
department.
data from any source. So whatever your corrosion monitoring strategy Amulet will provide the tools you need for effective corrosion control.
Amulet’s corrosion module captures best practise from the major oil & gas companies around the globe. Feedback from these companies has enabled C3 global to develop the world’s leading corrosion package specifically targeted at the needs of the oil and gas industry.
C3 global have also worked closely with the leading
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ER, LPR, ECN, ZRA, CEION, Micro-Corr corrosion probes
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Acoustic & metal loss sand probes
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Cormon & CorrOcean spools
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Rightrax, Panametrics & KrautKramer ultra-sonic thickness gauges
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Metal loss coupons
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Infra Red, X-rays & photography
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Process Data
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Lab data
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Web & Excel based data input forms
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Video
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Manual observation data
energy chemical supply companies and oil industry
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Production chemistry, Chemical Management and Stock control The Amulet Production Chemical Management
individual and team goals.
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Manual or instrument data inputs, combine the on-line process data with chemical management
System has one goal in life:
data as collected by the off-shore technicians
To allow you to apply the correct chemicals at
and any and all laboratories
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Daily chemical cost
In support of that goal Amulet enables users to
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Cost per unit of production
move away from anecdotal observations towards
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Derive dosage rates and correlations with
operating performance.
evidence-based decision making. Everyone on the team shares the same information and can clearly identify linked events. Thus the production,
corrosion data •
against target based on production data
petroleum and process engineers, chemists, corrosion and integrity engineers can share
Chemical usage, actual, target and variance
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Derived treatment regime based on mode of
objective knowledge and experience in pursuit of
operation and interpolation of the flow regimes
safe production goals.
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Plan & predict chemical usage
an unenviable task of collating data from many
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Measure chemical use against budget
different systems in order to understand data
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Pump injection management related to chemistry
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Prediction of scale management based on water
The people involved in these processes have
and manipulate it into meaningful information. Chemical data may be in on-shore and off-
chemistry
shore spreadsheets, process data may be in control or data historians, lab analyses will be
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Actual total daily/weekly/monthly chemical usage
in a LIMS system or in Excel format. Meanwhile,
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Chemical effectiveness management & reporting
there are legislative requirements to be met and reports created, production and allocations to be maintained and systems to be optimised and improved. All this is set against the desire to reduce spend and improve efficiency on the asset.
The desire to achieve this ideal state is further complicated by the fact that the worlds of engineers and IT specialists are not necessarily focussed on the same end goals. Amulet enables co-operation between the production chemists, petroleum engineers and IT specialists to maximise the use of existing IT systems and to achieve their
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Environmental Monitoring and Emissions Control
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Accidental spills
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Oil in water
Closely related to the Amulet Chemical
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Produced water
Management system, this module allows the
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Chemicals used and discharged
user to measure, manage and report on the
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Production chemicals
environmental impact of production activities from
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Drilling chemicals
a chemical and emissions standpoint.
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Pipeline chemicals
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Drill cuttings
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Atmospherics
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Gas flaring
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Waste returned to shore
duplication, it makes sense to transform the data
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Actual chemical usage
gathered for production purposes into reports
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Data from Lab analysis
required by Government institutions. Used in this
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Discharge management
way environmental compliance can be tied to
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Environmental targeting
daily production activity.
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Flare allocation management
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Legislative recording & reporting
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Permit application support
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Accurate measurement allows accurate planning
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One source for environmental reporting data
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Automatic generation of reports in Government specified format
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Secure audit trail
Amulet can automate the process of recording and reporting chemical use, discharge and emissions to meet legislative demands. To avoid
Integrity Management The management of physical assets - selection, maintenance, inspection and renewal - plays a key role in determining the operational performance, safety and profitability in the oil & gas industry. Deterioration processes such as fatigue cracking and corrosion are always present to some degree.
The challenge facing engineers is to ensure that the integrity of engineered systems, for instance, offshore structures, pipelines and process systems, is maintained throughout the anticipated service life. The Amulet Integrity Management system is designed to manage this process. Developed in 9
close co-operation with leading oil & gas companies
inspection reports are stored in the database and
the system provides all the necessary tools for
as searchable electronic documents along with any
effective integrity management.
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Internal/external corrosion,HIC/SSCC/CL-SCC
Amulet has always been used as a data repository
cracking, fatigue, cavitation, lagging, dead leg
for inspection data and supports all the usual
risk assessment
data loggers and inspection techniques. However, working with our clients showed there was an
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Internal corrosion (pH, scale, condensation, inhibitor)
obvious need for a new approach to integrity management and a new module was developed
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Combine corrosion risk & consequence
from the ground up, in collaboration with some
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Material properties
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Output lowest inspection category to define
of the leaders in the field of integrity. Rather than attempt to re-invent an inspection database this
inspection interval
module has been designed to map to the process of management rather than force people just to input
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Last inspection dates determine inspections
data.
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Work pack created, accessed and reported on web forms
A web-based data entry system uses the Amulet
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tracking
calculations engine to derive all important parameters relating to a line or asset and from this calculate an optimum inspection frequency for
Data retrieval, searching, trending & anomaly
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Auto learning software builds new line & properties when added to any corrosion circuit
each line. Templates are employed so that any new asset in a corrosion circuit can be easily added with minimum input. The physical properties and process information are fed through a full range of models for risk and consequence for corrosion, fatigue,
Subsea Asset Integrity Management In a similar manner to topside integrity
erosion, cavitation, cracking and deadleg corrosion.
management our clients advised us that they
The output from this is a minimum inspection
would like a system for subsea asset integrity
interval and, from the history, an inspection due
management that reflected their working practices
date. Work packs are presented as web forms and
mapped to the unique requirements of the subsea industry. The Amulet SAIMs module was built working directly with subsea integrity engineers to meet the specific requirements of the subsea industry.
The system is based round a hierarchical component register which is linked to the four distinct sources of data: documents, anomalies,
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risk assessment and inspection databases. These
generated by other Amulet modules. The module
are all linked and allow for any detailed search
‘discovers’ patterns from the alarms generated and
to be undertaken as well as effective tracking of
uses this information to predict failures and enable
anomalies and inspections. All this data is linked
route cause analysis. Statistical analysis of alarms
through a graphical interface making the process of
is a powerful, and often under-utilised, aspect of
managing the data simple and intuitive.
asset management. In addition, Amulet’s own alarm management tools can be used to produce ‘soft’
The system meets all the requirements for managing a subsea asset in that it identifies and processes relevant asset data, establishes current asset condition, implements integrity management strategies and demonstrates the process of risk
alarms based on derivations of one of more inputs. By this means rogue or ambiguous alarms can be removed from the system and intelligence can be built in to provide qualified information to the operators to act on.
management. The alarm module can handle huge quantities of
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Uses your component & tagging system
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Process diagrams
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HIRA module for life time tracking
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Graphical view of component hierarchy
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Each component linked
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CAD drawings
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Documents
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Images
Integrity Operating Window
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Video & multi-media
Many of our customers have adopted a process
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Anomalies
of defining a safe ‘Integrity Operating Window’
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Work packs
and using Amulet to ensure that they continue to
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History
operate their assets within this defined window. We
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Document register
have adapted Amulet to support this process and
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Anomaly register
it has now become one of our optional modules.
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Legislative actions register
Using defined and agreed operating windows, the
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Inspection register
system provides:
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Inspection details
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Component inspection details
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Intelligent search tool
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Secure and complete audit trail
alarm data. One of our client’s real time Amulet systems processes 4.5 million alarms and events every year. Analysis of these alarms has reduced the number of unnecessary work orders raised by almost 70%.
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Safe operation validation criteria
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Production efficiency monitoring
Alarm and Alert Management
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Integrity criteria validation
The Amulet Alarms & Alerts Management module can connect to any source of alarm data. This includes control systems, SCADA packages, data historians, manually raised events and even alarms
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