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:

•       Data quality and consistency

•       Costly over-maintenance

•       Risk of under-maintenance

•       Supervision of sub-contractors

•       Defect identification to defect resolution

•       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:

•      Increasing process safety while reducing maintenance cycle times

•      Increasing asset availability by ensuring latest process safety procedures are followed

•      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.