Our observations of the difficulties associated with current data gathering processes include the following:
- Poor knowledge of available records needed to complete the engineering and risk assessment
- Silos of on-site physical records and corporate repositories of images which are poorly organized and indexed
- Poor quality record images (PDF and TIFF) which are not searchable
- Large volumes of components (vessels, piping, valves, meter stations, pipeline) which require engineering review
- Engineering resources are used to perform manual tasks to locate records and perform data entry
- Poorly defined quality control processes to ensure data integrity
- Antiquated or Obsolete Systems containing valuable information
- Proprietary Systems holding data hostage
- Data is spread across many databases, excel spreadsheets or other systems
- The table is reflective of the amount of missing data (white columns) needed to perform the risk evaluation (blue columns). Missing data (red cells) is potentially resident in historical records. Operators typically do not have good methods to locate the relevant records.
