Inspection and maintenance of technical installations is labor- and knowledge intensive and therefor costly. In many cases inspections turned out to have been done improperly of even not been done at all. This causes enormous risks for people and environment. To cope with that, organizations react with more rules and thus more paperwork. This leads to higher operational costs and a higher administrative burden, without an improvement of the quality and safety.
Proper maintained technical installations perform better, have lower operational costs and have a smaller footprint. Many legacy installations are hard to maintain due to the lack of data. When service crews have the right data, maintenance can be done at the right moment. By doing so, the operational cost can be kept as low as possible, undesired emissions be kept lowest and parts can be used as long as possible. This saves money and materials. (Chemical) plants can operate more competitive, compared on a global scale. This helps saving employment in Europe and thus ultimately R&D capacities.
Our overall goal is to design a good series of clever hard- and software that helps crews and management to perform their tasks easier, with higher quality and with higher efficiency.