Are You Prepared for The Digital Transformation?

intelliSPEC™: Conquering the Digital Transformation with the World’s First Digital Data Management System
By
Jonathan Martinez, Director of Implementation, PK Technology

All industrial complexes, from oil refineries, petrochemical, and gas-processing plants to medical manufacturing complexes, require periodical inspections, audits, and assessments. The types of equipment to be assessed can range from boilers, vessels, tanks and rotating equipment, to smaller, ancillary items such as safety harnesses and fire extinguishers.

However, despite generational advances in technology, recent studies show that as much as 90% of today’s asset inspections are vulnerable to “dirty data” collection and retention, which is then incorporated into facility documentation and management systems.

Dirty data is defined as data acquired by taking readings or visual inspections, which might be flawed, and recording that onto paper files or stand-alone spreadsheets. That data can then contain erroneous information, duplicated data, data that is in digital memory but not loaded into a database, or data that was initially accurate but is later inaccurately transcribed into a digital documentation system. Basically, inspection data loses accuracy during the process of getting that data from the field, through an inspection, and into the facility’s files and database systems.

In fact, according to recent reports, approximately 75% of industrial organizations have identified significant costs stemming from the reliance on dirty data and have reported that more than 40% of all maintenance errors were traced to dirty data documentation as a factor. In worst-case scenarios, such data errors can become the proximate cause for unscheduled shutdowns, environmental incidents, accidents, and even fatalities. – Read More