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CORROSION & INSPECTION MANAGEMENT Surface Asset Management™️ Surface Asset Management™️ specialises in comprehensive paint inspection, NDT inspection and corrosion prevention for a number of industries including Energy & Renewables, Marine, Transport & Infrastructure, Nuclear and Structural Steel & Fire Protection. The company’s newly launched tablet-based application, Surface Asset Management (SAM™️), has been created for the complete management of your asset; conditional surveying, specification, scope of works and inspection reporting. SAM™ removes duplication of work. As the survey data is captured, it is available for review and action immediately, providing significant cost savings on older methods.
Company Details Website: www.consultsurface.com Email: info@consultsurface.com Tel: 02890287709
Address: (Head Office) 300 Cregagh Road, Belfast, BT6 9EW (Aberdeen Office) Arnhall Business Park, Prospect Road, Aberdeen, AB32 6FJ
Leading the way in web-based technology for the management of corrosion is specialist firm Surface Corrosion Consultants Ltd. The Belfast based company, which specialises in comprehensive paint inspection, NDT Inspection and corrosion prevention, has unveiled its innovative new app - Surface Asset Management (SAM™) that is set to transform how coating condition surveys and painting campaigns are recorded and managed.
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The revolutionary software, developed by the company who has its headquarters in Belfast, can also manage new build projects providing full cradle to grave traceability. SAM™ is a fresh and unique approach to corrosion prevention and has been developed
Development stage: Live Launch date: 2017
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The pioneering technology was developed in 2017 after a team of specialists at Surface Corrosion quickly realised the majority of service providers and major operators are still managing their corrosion protection using sub-contractors and colossal spreadsheets. Recording of maintenance campaigns was inefficient, often documented by creation of hard copy reports, which proved almost impossible to track and monitor. The team of entrepreneurs identified a clear gap in the market for a digital solution for recording and saving inspection report data in real-time. Steve Brierley, Operations Director, says: “Working with steel fabricators, it was obvious that there was a gap. We use SAM™ as a matter of course for all the recording of surface preparation and coatings; it is Corrosion fundamental to our business.
The ground-breaking SAM™ Consultants Ltd, has software is an easy to use, digital inspection application “SAM™ surveys are succinct unveiled its innovative that streamlines all aspects and to the point and provide a new app Surface Asset of NDT management and snapshot of each asset at the coating inspection. The user push of a button. Management (SAM™) friendly, highly intuitive program can be applied across a range “SAM™ removes the lengthy of industries including oil and process of manual data input gas, subsea, renewables, marine, and our intuitive software has a transport and infrastructure as well as fundamental role to play in the future of wider industrial sectors. the energy and construction industries.”
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with simplicity and efficiency at the forefront of its design. The software removes duplication of tasks and creates a single point of access to monitor corrosion and manage the execution of coating systems, passive fire protection and insulation instalment.
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Survey data needs to be concise, easy to understand, as well as simple to manage and monitor. With SAM™, reporting is instantaneous. Continuing with a philosophy of keeping things simple, the inspection of any fabricated steelwork with SAM™ is one continuous process. SAM™ keeps it simple.
