SCI develops safety monitoring system

SCI has developed MATRICS; a real-time decision making tool enabling managers to monitor the condition of safety critical components against their performance standards throughout their operational lives.

The software provides quick and secure multi-user access to high quality safety critical information, and a user-friendly traffic light reporting system.

These key features of MATRICS were designed in response to the findings of the recent HSE KP3 Asset Integrity Programme report 2007 which found that:

"Companies need better key indicators of performance available at the most senior management levels to inform decision making and focus resources.” 

MATRICS, an acronym for Management Audit Tool for Rapid Investigation of Critical Systems, reports on the level of safety of each safety critical element, assigning each component a Priority Level based on its condition and the consequences of failure.

The Priority Level of each component is displayed via a user-friendly traffic light system to provide operators with clear and highly visual integrity reports for installations and their critical systems, again responding to the HSE KP3 Asset Integrity Programme report’s call for “simplified reporting arrangements.”

Guillaume Vannier, Senior Engineer, who developed the MATRICS software, comments: ‘Maximising return from assets whilst maintaining an acceptable level of safety is a major challenge for the oil & gas industry. Whether for new or ageing facilities, asset integrity management is key to achieving optimum performance at economic cost.’

For further information, please contact:

Guillaume Vannier
Senior Engineer, SCI
Email: g.vannier@steel-sci.com
Tel: +44 (0)1344 636550