For owner operators and EPC contractors, effective engineering document management, control and collaboration processes are critical to the long term commercial success of operational assets or facilities.  Numerous on premise and independently hosted systems are commercially available to support engineering document management processes, but not all are suitable to the particular demands of major engineering or construction projects.  This paper discusses considerations you should take when evaluating Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), on premise and private cloud engineering document control solutions.

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Document control plays a crucial role in the long term success and profitability of a major capital project.  This paper focuses on how risk can be alleviated throughout the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) stage of the asset lifecycle.  
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• The many challenges in the O&M phase and the concept of Asset Lifecycle Management.
• The crucial stages that determine the success of Asset Lifecycle Management.
• The technology considerations and implications.
• A step by step guide to mitigating risk once construction has been completed.

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With the growth in the complexity of major capital projects and the exponential data growth in the oil and gas industry, the effective management and control over thousands of engineering docu¬ments shared between numerous stakeholders is critical. Streamlined document control processes are needed to help reduce risk and improve safety, efficiency and compliance.  This paper discusses some of the challenges facing document managers and controllers in the oil and gas industry, potential issues, and options for a more integrated and flexible approach to document control.

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Major capital projects are becoming more and more complex, with globally diffuse supply chains and an increased pressure to reduce risk, project slippages and cost overruns.  These projects can have thousands – perhaps millions of associated engineering documents.  Document control, and specifically Deliverables Management, can play a vital part in the long term profitability of an asset.  

Get it right, and the benefits will be an effective, seamless and flexible solution to help ensure projects are completed on time and on budget.  Get it wrong, and face huge pressures on resources, time lost chasing suppliers, project slippages, cost overruns and potentially damaging disputes with vendors and regulators.
This white paper presents a systematic approach to Deliverables Management by examining the characteristics of an effective deliverables management system and some of the key stages of the workflow.

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Study Results: This NEW IFS study reflects how field service technicians and maintenance professionals access enterprise data from handheld mobile devices like smartphones and tablets while in the field.

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Mobility adds value to the Oil & Gas Industry by:  Enhancing usability so work performed is captured in the EAM system more accurately and completely. Read more to learn how else.

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Analysts estimate that 50% of business applications will be accessed via mobile devices over the next couple of years. This white paper guides you through the mobility transformation process to maximize your business opportunities. The path to mobility is a journey on which there is no time for failure. Learn More Today!

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Choosing the right device for field service management needs is not easy. This whitepaper will guide you through the different factors, including your organization’s technology outlook, how a customer’s perceptions of you might be affected by the device, and how the hardware features make your employees more efficient.

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A line-frequency power factor measurement is the electric power industry’s most widely embraced electrical field diagnostic test with which to assess the dielectric health of a substation power apparatus.  However, overly simplified industry-accepted guidelines for analyzing power factor test results have allowed a general lack of understanding of this diagnostic tool to subsist – with such simple analysis strategies, there has not been a requirement to know the intricacies of the test.  Consequently, this nonchalance has positioned the industry vulnerably to undetected dielectric problems with its assets.  

This paper describes the power factor measurement as a diagnostic tool; reviews its strengths and its deficiencies, and the present strategies in use to analyze power factor test results.  It then elucidates how these industry embraced analytic guidelines can fail the user and subsequently lead to false conclusions about the dielectric health of an asset, and the ramifications of such a misdiagnosis.
The paper further provides an updated, more encompassing approach to assessing the dielectric health of an asset, including a discussion of why performing the power factor measurement at several discrete intervals between 15 Hz – 400 Hz has become such a significant component towards expanding the diagnostic power of this tool.

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Utilities that utilize carbon-free nuclear energy as part of their energy portfolio are tasked daily with maintaining safe operation whether the plant is generating power or is in a shutdown mode for a planned maintenance outage. Tight schedules, strict federal regulatory requirements and employee safety awareness create a much more strenuous plan to complete tasks as needed.Included in safe operation training programs at U.S. nuclear power facilities is ALARA, an acronym for “As Low As Reasonable Achievable.” ALARA means making every effort to maintain exposures to radiation as far below the dose limits as practical, ensuring an enhanced safety factor already considered to be safe annual doses for workers. Many factors are taken into account by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the federal nuclear regulator, when analyzing the radiation safety principle, such as state of technology and public health and safety.To help ALARA training, maintenance and planning, utilities today have access to state-of-the-art technology to support ALARA human work planning. Siemens and Microsoft, building on underlying dose rate calculations from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), are working together to help utilities transition to this next generation technology to ensure that the health and safety needs of radiation workers are met. Armed with software from Siemens PLM Software and Microsoft, utility management can make sound decisions based on accurate information while supporting Employee Health and Safety compliance initiatives, such as ALARA, with innovative, simulated 3D environments that are perfect for immersive decision-making.

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Arguably the problem that gives plant operations professionals most sleepless nights is that of inadequate asset information. In day-to-day operations this wastes valuable time and effort; in an emergency it can be a serious problem. This paper examines how recent advances in 3D laser surveying technology can contribute to bringing the ‘information monster’ under control, to transform it from a problem into a priceless asset.

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