(47ap) Advancing Process Safety - Major Impact "One "Step at a Time"

Abstract

Topic:              Advancing Process Safety - Major
Impact "One "Step at a Time"

Presenters:      Sam Solomon, Chairman, Mobideo; Keith Lapeyrouse, Reliability Engineer, Meridium
Asset Performance Mgmt,The
Dow Chemical Company

Presentation:
  10th Global Congress on Process Safety,
March 30-April 2, 2014, New Orleans

Description:     Advancing
process safety requires rethinking technologies necessary to ensure adherence
to procedures and effectively monitoring compliance. With the advent of
mobility, cloud and big data analytics, a new set of tools are now available to
directly impact process safety and its implementation. Key to successful
implementation is the ability to capture and monitor activities at the most
granular level of procedural detail ? knowledge ?one step at a time.? The
case study for this presentation will be on the inspection process with a
specific attention to coating detection and failure as we address more
generally the process safety challenges resolved by this approach.  Some of the key challenges facing the
inspection process include:

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 Data quality and consistency

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 Costly over-maintenance

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 Risk of under-maintenance

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 Supervision of sub-contractors

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 Defect identification to defect
resolution

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 Defect identification across
equipment and personnel over time

The presentation will address these
challenges by detailing three information technology approaches and their
business value impact. The approaches will cover:

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Increasing process safety while reducing maintenance cycle times

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Increasing asset availability by ensuring latest process safety
procedures are followed

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Reducing maintenance costs by aggregating maintenance work and
increasing pattern analysis leading to pro-active safety management

The solution
demonstrated based upon Mobideo is a software platform to help companies
increase asset capability, performance and situational awareness by ensuring
proper execution of document-based activities and best practices across the
organization; enabling users to have information where and when they need it.
Rapid deployment is made practical by leveraging existing knowledge and
expertise in the organization. A key business area impacted by this technology
involves adherence and monitoring of process safety procedures and best
practices.