How qubesense oil and gas inspection software helped reduce turn around time from weeks to minutes!
Background
- Customer is an oil & gas company with a vast network of storage assets across North America.
- The company was required to conduct regular oil and gas inspection of its equipment to ensure that corrosion control measures were in place.
- Some by-products of crude oil accelerate the corrosion of metals and cause them to deteriorate quickly; it is crucial, therefore, to inspect storage assets regularly to ensure safety precautions and avoid fires, accidents, and environmental damage.
- The customer's reason for field inspection was to identify any flaws, leaks, or other harmful conditions to ensure that the equipment remains in excellent working condition.
- Assessments were conducted weekly or monthly, with maintenance teams and visiting and filling out paper forms at the site, which were then manually entered into a central database. Later, reports were generated using the data collected..
- Due to the strict compliance mandate, regular tank inspections were necessary to check for internal and external corrosion or deformation. Also, asset inspection was critical in maintaining up-to-date status information for efficient and secure operations. In addition, the customer needed high-quality field service reports to plan asset upgrades and improve maintenance for medium to long-range planning.
- Due to the importance of asset uptime, the customer wanted to deploy a simple, affordable, and scalable oil and gas inspection software that could be customized for their unique business needs.
Challenge
- All corrosion rate calculations, storage reports were done manually, requiring a great deal of time and effort
- The complex algorithms were difficult to calculate manually
- Various inspection teams manually filled in 10+ paper forms, and these forms were later consolidated into a single document
- Data collected on paper forms were manually entered into Excel spreadsheets once they were back in the office
- Manual data input led to errors in corrosion calculations, which affected the accurate monitoring of assets
- Data were available in petabytes and needed to be verified and organized in the correct format for accurate decision-making
- Took several weeks to compile reports manually from the spreadsheets
- Senior officials had to review all disparate data and compile an executive summary of the findings
- An inspection report for final submission was created, comprising an executive summary, required consolidated data, manually filled forms and a table of contents
Solution
- With the help of solution experts from qubesense, together with the customer, identified the project's scope.
- The oil and gas inspection software is designed according to design thinking principles, considering the end user's needs and preferences.
- qubesense developed an oil and gas inspection management software that is compatible with iOS, Android, and web based systems, easy to use, has a smooth user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) and can be easily scaled. With this inspection management software in place, qubesense simplified the transition from the customer's manual system to an automated field service inspection software.
- qubesense and customer agreed to a modular custom inspection solution consisting of a business mobile app, business admin portal, and Business analytics and reporting portal.
- The company's paper forms were converted into digital formats, allowing inspection teams to conduct and input inspection data on a mobile device from the site itself
- qubesense developed a inspection planning software that can store data for all assets and quickly calculate corrosion rate using algorithms
- The qubsense oil and gas inspection software enables streamlined data collection, accurate verification of field data, and detailed inspection reports with automated proof-of-compliance documentation
- Based on the algorithm calculations, the system predicts when they require maintenance, allowing repairs to be scheduled long before breakdowns occur and ensuring the safety of employees
- All reports can be generated in real time with a single button click
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As qubesense already came with pre-built base modules, only a custom layer had to be added to match the exact requirements
- All modules were developed and deployed within four weeks
Features
- The inspection team can enter data collected during the inspection process directly from the field, eliminating the need to be in the office for data transfer
- Mobile forms captured all data, photos, GPS coordinates, and automatically validated information during data capture
- Oil and gas mobile inspection apps serve as digital record keepers, preserving old data in accessible formats
- All form data is automatically consolidated into a single document based on the tank number
- When all forms for a specific tank have been submitted, an alert is triggered to inform the senior inspector
- The senior inspector can review the consolidated data and prepare an executive summary using the in-built word processor
- A conclusive tank inspection report is automatically generated in real time with a table of contents, a list of all the pages, and a list of any attached files
- qubesense developed a solution that displays maps and charts to show the location of assets
Benefits
- With the qubesense oil and gas inspection software, the team was able to reduce mistakes and generate accurate data that helped save time and money
- The inspection teams did not have to drive back and forth to the office for data entry, thereby reducing travel time and increasing productivity
- Thousands of Excel records are uploaded with a single click
- qubesense plant inspection management software is customizable, simple, and easy to use, allowing the inspection teams to start right away without any training needs
- qubesense inspection software helped the customer streamline predictive asset maintenance, thereby reducing the need for unplanned downtime while decreasing operations and maintenance costs
- qubesense software for visualizing data in oil and as Industries enabled accurate collection, analysis, and organization of data to make real-time reports and data-driven decisions
- qubesense oilfield service software is cloud-based, allowing managers to access inspection records from any device at anytime
- Inspectors can now do their work on a mobile phone or tablet, eliminating the need to conduct an inspection on paper and transfer the information over later
- qubesense oil and gas Inspection software allows users to create new inspection checklists or modify existing ones easily.
- Using qubesense oil and gas inspection software resulted in resources optimization, cost savings, time and efforts savings, the accuracy of calculation of corrosion, transparency, increase in productivity.
- The customer has reduced turnaround time from a few weeks to minutes and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.
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