"We can be pressing the boundaries of collaboration with external systems and even organizations." Chevron's Phillip Miller on the potential to extend IntelaTrac capabilities to address a broad range of business practices.For Phillip Miller, solution architect for Chevron Energy Technology Company, IntelaTrac's capabilities "start with reliability, but can be so much more." To Miller, extensibility of the IntelaTrac platform means that much more can be done to support company-wide business practices. "You need to focus on why data is collected, establish standards, and think globally," Miller said.
For example, tighter integration with other plant systems holds the potential to automatically create procedures in the IntelaTrac system, the motivation being to save time relative to manual procedure creation and instill "greater confidence that as meta data change in the SoR, they will cascade properly into IntelaTrac," Miller said.
Other extensibility benefits include the inclusion of operations and maintenance procedures written in Microsoft Word or Excel, and work procedures directly from maintenance systems. "You want to bring in the information that you want to reference during rounds, such as setpoints from control systems," Miller said.
Other applications include external initiation of inspections and exception reporting for assets deemed critical to production, environmental or safety performance. "We can be pressing the boundaries of collaboration with external systems and even organizations," Miller said. "It's a great opportunity to drive efficiency and eliminate errors."
Ultimately, Miller envisions the potential delivery of the IntelaTrac platform as a cloud-based application managed by Invensys on behalf of its clients. Especially smaller plants with fewer internal resources, might just say: "Send me my handhelds," Miller said.