Undetected Gas Leak on North Sea Oil Platform
On March 20th 2015 a major gas leak occurred on an oil platform in the North Sea. In total, over 1670 kg of gas leaked from a fractured steel pipe over the course of over 90 minutes without being detected by the flammable gas detection system on the platform. For the entire period, all areas of the platform were at an extremely high risk of explosion due to the dense presence of flammable gas. The leak was only discovered by the sense of smell of a worker on the platform over
A Visit to ICI 1952
ICI may have closed its last Teesside site in 2006 but its legacy continues grow with more and more companies utilising the infrastructure they helped to build and workforce they trained. At one point, ICI employed over 30,000 people on Teesside at their sites in Billingham and Wilton cementing its place as THE regions key employer which played a huge part in the lives of thousands of families. IAMTech, based at the former ICI HQ on Wilton has unearthed a video titled: ‘A Vis
View our Shutdowns and Maintenance Webinar in your own time!..
On Tuesday 28th April and Tuesday 26th May IAMTech held our first Shutdowns and Maintenance webinars. You can view our webinar here. With industry professionals from over 30 countries in attendance the audience was diverse and highly experienced so we were especially happy that they were willing to spend time learning about our experience of modern asset maintenance practices. Our webinar focussed on: • Control planning and delivery with event dashboards • Calculating Produ
IAMTech and SuccorfishM2M sign exciting agreement!..
IAMTech and SuccorfishM2M have signed an exciting agreement that will see IAMTech sell the SuccorfishM2M SC2 and SC3 products. The SC2 and SC3 are intelligent, fit for purpose, hardware and data communication systems that deliver real time GPS/GPRS/GSM and satellite connectivity to mobile assets operating in the world’s most extreme environments. To find out more about these products, please visit our website. IAMTech Managing Director, Ross Coulman: “At IAMTech we have spent
Choosing the right Intrinsically Safe mobile device for you!
The consumer market has been flooded with hundreds of different mobile devices for the last decade - from smartphones to tablets, everybody has their own preference of manufacturer, operating system, size and specification. However, when you are buying a device for use in an industrial and/or explosive environment, this decision making process will become more complex due to the requirements of the business and the budget available which often leaves the buyer or buying compa
IAMTech attending NEPIC ‘Meet the Members'.
IAMTech will be attending the 5th annual ‘NEPIC Meet the Members’ event this Wednesday 3rd June 2015 st Wynyard Hall in North East England . NEPIC's members are Chemical, Petrochemical, Polymer, Specialty Chemical, Fine Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Composites, Bioresources, Biofuels and Renewable Materials and Energy Companies. As well as companies and organisations in their various supply chains all working in partnership through NEPIC to improve the economic env
Last chance to register!
Our 'Shutdowns and Maintenance' webinar is happening today at 1600 (Dubai), 1300 (UK), 0800 (NYC). If you would like to register please click here The three key areas we will be discussing are: Control planning and delivery with event dashboards Calculating Productivity Factor using Lean Six Sigma Method Reviewing work scope using Monte Carlo risk model If you're a shutdown or maintenance professional this is a webinar we guarantee that you will find incredibly informative! #
Save over £51k on your next 122 day campaign.
IAMTech solves a real client problem A client (an offshore service provider) asked us to help them save time and money on their next maintenance campaign. We identified where we believed the easiest point in their processes were to save time and money and advised them that embracing mobility was the way forward. For an investment of £16.8k (12 intrinsically safe devices at £1.3k each and 12 'IAMAllocations' licenses at £.1k each) we could save them over three times that amoun
IAMTech signs exciting agreement with VectorCommand
IAMTech and VectorCommand have signed an exciting agreement which will see IAMTech share their knowledge of industrial emergency response with VectorCommand to provide a world class software solution. This agreement will see VectorCommand use the software design expertise and industrial release modelling techniques of IAMTech to expand the capability of their operational incident management system CSS, which is used to provide a Common Operational Picture to incident commande
Free Maintenance Webinar - April 28
'Plant shutdowns are the most expensive and time-consuming of maintenance projects because of the loss of production and the expense of the turnaround itself. They are complex; and as the complexity increases, they become more costly and difficult to manage'. A plant shutdown almost always has a negative financial impact. This negative impact is due to a number of different factors but predominantly the loss of production revenue and a major cash outlay for the plant turnarou
