"It has directly helped to prevent surprise maintenance events at the facility."
To minimise tunarounds for large industrial facilities, Canadian-based Osprey Integrity use Trendspek to deliver full coverage monitoring and digital programs for their clients — transforming reactive repairs into proactive maintenance strategies.
We speak to Osprey Integrity's President, Courtland Penk.
Outcomes
Osprey Integrity first selected Trendspek for its superior contextualisation and data management of drone data. The goal was to optimise situational awareness and user experience for their leading industrial clients responsible for managing large sites and facilities.
Courtland Penk, President of Osprey Integrity says:
"By enabling early identification of deficiencies, ranging from minor to critical, this has helped to prioritise repairs and directly helped to prevent surprise maintenance events at the facility."
Following data collection, Osprey's team built a comprehensive predictive maintenance program using Trendspek's tools to monitor potential risks and enable contractors, including:
"By enabling early identification of deficiencies, ranging from minor to critical, this has helped to prioritise repairs and directly helped to prevent surprise maintenance events at the facility."
Courtland Penk, President
Osprey Integrity
Outcomes
Once the facility was digitised within the Trendspek platform, Osprey Integrity created flight missions for target assets like storage tanks, piping circuits, pressure vessels, furnaces and stacks for the client.
Resultant flight routes were created to leverage existing automation of the drone technology and future advancements into nested, or ‘drone in the box’ systems.
Data was collected at regular intervals, uploaded into the Trendspek platform, and reviewed collaboratively by various stakeholders.
Once reviewed, annotations were created within the model to show precisely where a deficiency was observed, including its classification and criticality.
Recommended repair timeframe, required tradesperson and access requirements were further communicated within the platform annotation and leverage by the client to create maintenance repair work packages for issuance to the appropriate contractors.
Through collaboration between Trendspek, Osprey and their client, the program has had a dramatic impact.
According to Courtland: "By enabling early identification of deficiencies, ranging from minor to critical, this has helped to prioritise repairs and directly helped to prevent surprise maintenance events at the facility."
Outcomes
With 24/7 access to the platform, teams could conduct virtual site walkthroughs to anticipate resources and access required during turnaround periods, such as crane placements.
Trendspek’s Templating and Folder System also enabled Osprey to directly adopt their client's maintenance prioritisation tool, which considers the likelihood and consequence of failure to dictate repair urgency.
These customised templates were used alongside 3D structural data to guide employees, and contractors, on necessary repair actions, from insulation stripping to critical lift planning.
This provided situational awareness not previously possible without considerable administrative burden and field visits.
According to Courtland Penk:
"Many of these deficiencies would never have been identified by traditional inspection methods, or at least not without considerable access effort and associated costs. It’s been incredible to see this approach positively influencing a preventative maintenance mindset at the refinery."
"With 20/20 hindsight, our client has described the decision to move to this preventative maintenance approach as a ‘No Brainer’ as it is thorough, cost effective, and sets the foundation for predictable maintenance conditions in the future."
Outcomes
To date, a range of 200+ deficiencies have been noted throughout the facility of various classification and urgency, including:
Deficiencies were recorded into the Trendspek platform, categorised by Templated Reporting.
This consolidated data into a single platform, and created a consistent, continuous feedback loop between all parties.
"With 20/20 hindsight, our client has described the decision to move to this preventative maintenance approach as a ‘No Brainer’ as it is thorough, cost effective, and sets the foundation for predictable maintenance conditions in the future."
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