Data Management and Analysis
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This means that your data not only has to be complete and accurate (because it is the foundation for your operating processes), it must also be linked together correctly and supplemented with other information.
Kiwa Technology has specialists who with experience in analysing large quantities of data. Kiwa Technology has in-house consultants who can advise you on how your data can be supplemented with, for example, information about properties of materials, soil details or weather information to enable more accurate conclusions to be drawn and to help justify reductions in your investment and maintenance costs, which leads to improved control of your network's safety and reliability.
Areas of application:
- GIS information systems
- Maintenance information
- Breakdown registration
- Asset registration
- Company resources registration
Applicable to:
- Asset managers
- Operational managers of network operators/energy network administrators
- Data specialists
- Process specialists
- Risk specialists
- Maintenance specialists
The painstaking and consistent registration of static data (information about company resources, including for example, materials, location, age, construction date, etc.) and dynamic data (information received about breakdowns, maintenance and incidents) concerning your company resources is vitally important for optimising your operating processes. Using the available data, risks can be identified and valuable analyses be made which help in assessing them.
In asset management systems, the value of this data is recognised and a great deal of attention is devoted to this topic. Supervisory bodies have also discovered the importance of accurate data, registration and analyses in monitoring the safe operation and maintenance of your network.
Depending on what Kiwa Technology is precisely requested to do, we can provide assistance in setting up, organising and supplementing your data management systems and in performing analyses
- Zero measurements, registration of requirements, wishes and priorities and/or mapping out current systems and interrelationships
- Plan of action for data improvement and/or process improvement, including prioritisation
- Analysis of data
- Implementation, implementation plan
Technical Audits, Valuation and Due Diligence
The energy distribution sector is continually evolving. When taking control of networks, it is important to obtain insight into their technical condition. The quality of the assets being acquired is a determinant factor in their value.
Risk Management and Analyses
The added value of Risk Based Asset Management (e.g. according to PAS55 or NTA 8120) can be broken down into a number of internal and external benefits.
Replacement and maintenance strategies
Replacement and maintenance strategies - This is a costly and time-consuming operation, which means it is important to make clear choices about which sections it would be best to replace within which period of time. Kiwa Technology can advise you.
Policy studies
Constructing a new energy network is associated with significant costs. Consequently, the concept that is best suited to the situation should be identified as soon as possible. Various energy concepts can be compared on issues such as costs and CO2 emissions via energy studies.
Innovative products and technologies
Innovative new products and services that can be used in the construction, maintenance, repair, replacement and management of gas distribution networks regularly appear on the market.
Feasibility Studies on Alternative Fuels
Kiwa Technology carries out feasibility studies to support gas traders, fleet owners and governments; to facilitate investment, safety, and provide an overview on the possibilities of alternative fuels CNG, LNG, H2 and CH2. To serve this objective, the study covers various aspects of the business concept development.
Benchmarking
Benchmarking is one of the possibilities for improving the quality of your organisation and/or processes. If you wish to achieve the objectives that you have set, for example, for your asset management, you will have to translate them into specific, measurable, objective and consistent indicators.
PAS55 en NTA 8120
PAS 55 - In the process leading to the certification, Kiwa can create added value on many different levels. In this way, Kiwa Technology can offer excellent support with consultancy in the setting-up of the necessary processes and systems
Risk Based Asset Management
Kiwa Technology can offer support to operators of pipelines such as gas distribution companies, water boards and heat energy companies when implementing RBAM.