Green & Sustainable energy

ART provides technology and engineering advice for most forms of alternative energy solutions. We have provided technical support and engineering advice to firms who are considering entering this sector as well as companies and financial institutions who have already entered this sector and wish to optimise their investments.

Our consultancy services include feasibility studies, engineering and installation and commissioning support for:

• 1. Wind Power
• 2. Biomass Systems
• 3. Solar PV
• 4. Hydro Power

For further details, please contact us on: info@absoluterisktec.co.uk.

Upstream & Downstream

ART provides a comprehensive suite of formal safety assessment capability for the Oil & Gas industry. This capability covers onshore, offshore and sub-sea process safety analysis from concept selection through to Front End Engineering Design, Detailed Design, Engineering Procurement Construction, Installation and Commissioning to Decommissioning

Integrated Solutions

As well as undertaking desk top assessments, we are able to provide our clients with embedded engineers ranging from a complete multi-discipline task force through to specific discipline engineers to supplement clients' in-house resources

Brownfield Engineering

As well as supporting Greenfield projects, at ART our capability includes provision of multi-disciplinary support for major Brownfield engineering projects. This support includes desktop studies/assessments to embedded engineering support at either the clients' design offices or at the brownfield site.

Our recent global support has included projects with sour, high pressure, high temperature reservoirs to subsea integrated control and production developments, integrated drilling and productions platforms, well-head platforms, Floating Production, Storage & Offloading (FPSO) and onshore sour gas processing in the Middle East.

Our support services can be broken down into four distinct areas:

• TS&RM
• Human Factors Engineering
• RAM Analysis
• Environmental Engineering

Technical Safety & Risk Management

Our Technical Safety & Risk Management scope of services includes:

• Hazardous Area Layouts
• Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Classification and Verification
• High Integrity Pressure Protection System (HIPPS)
• Health & Safety Risk Assessment
• Gas Dispersion, Explosion and Thermal Flume Studies (using CFD)
• BowTie Analysis
• Design Safety Case
• Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA)
• HAZID, HAZOP & ALARP workshops
• Hazard Management

Human Factors Engineering

Our Human Factors Engineering scope of services includes:

• Human Factors (HF) Risk Workshop Facilitation
• HF Operations Analysis
• HF Maintenance Analysis
• Human Machine Interactions Assessments
• Human Factors Engineering

Reliability, Availability & Maintainability Analysis

Our RAM Analysis scope of services includes:

• Reliability Planning
• RAM Analysis (using MAROS)
• RAM Verification & Validation
• Reliability Growth Analysis & Demonstration
• Production Availability & Performance Analysis
• Development of Failure Data & Maintenance Strategies

Environmental Engineering

Our expertise also covers Environmental Impact Assessments, including: Air Emissions, Exhaust Gases, Flaring Venting, Fugitive Emissions, Ozone Depleting Substances, Greenhouse Gases, Hazardous materials and Environmental ALARP Assessment.

Rail Transportation Expertise

ART provides whole lifecycle rail engineering capabilities support to the rail industry including design houses/consultancies, suppliers, integrators, operators and maintainers. ART is currently working on multi-billion pounds rail projects both in the United Kingdom and Internationally and is providing Systems Engineering and Safety Assurance resource and expertise to railway systems integrators, rail infrastructure providers (including stations, shafts and portals), rail systems providers, railways operators and maintainers

Rail Infrastructure Projects

Our rail engineering knowledge and techniques will cut project risk, improve performance, and ensure that operational costs are aligned throughout the project life cycle.

The ART Safety Assurance team has significant experience in providing robust safety and reliability assessments for clients. We have extensive experience in the standards and processes (including EN 50126, 50128, 50129, IEC 61508) and the requirements for safety case development, approval and safety assessments and have a successful track record of implementation. On selected projects and special arrangements, we are also able to operate as an AsBo under European Common Safety Method (CSM) regulations and Notified Body (NoBo) on conformity against Technical Specification for Interoperability (TSI's)

Signalling

We employ a thorough and systematic process of safety assurance combined with essential discipline specific experience to ensure that signalling products and systems achieve acceptable or tolerable safety levels before operational use. ART offers in-house and independent design assurance and design risk assessments to support client designs:

• Signalling design compliance
• Conceptual design statements
• Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM)
• Safety Integrity Level evaluation and verification
• Functional failure analysis and management

Technical Safety & Risk Management

Our approach ensures that our experienced engineers and rail professionals can help rolling stock manufacturers, owners and equipment suppliers to:

• Optimise the performance of vehicles
• Improve energy efficiency, for example via the integration of novel energy storage systems
• Extend the life of ageing rolling stock
• Develop new solutions to engineering problems and
• Project management of complex engineering change programmes.

Rolling Stock

Our approach ensures that our experienced engineers and rail professionals can help rolling stock manufacturers, owners and equipment suppliers to:

• Optimise the performance of vehicles
• Improve energy efficiency, for example via the integration of novel energy storage systems
• Extend the life of ageing rolling stock
• Develop new solutions to engineering problems and
• Project management of complex engineering change programmes.

Optimizing Operational Performance

Our experienced engineers and rail professionals can help train operators and depot managers to:

• Optimise maintenance strategies
• Enable rolling stock life extensions
• Access technical innovation funding
• Develop rolling stock strategies for franchise bids
• Combine the complexities of operations, resources and timetables to optimise and plan the maintenance of trains through depot infrastructure.

Government Rail Organisations

We support the delivery of a wide range of rail projects on behalf of government including rail franchising, research analysis and modelling.

We have supported the delivery of a wide range of rail franchising projects on behalf of the UK Department for Transport (DfT).

• Develop systems implementation strategies, test, operational and maintenance safety cases for the introduction of new equipment, technology, vehicles and systems
• Encourage and enable businesses in the rail industry to innovate
• Understand cyber security risks, and develop strategies for the integration of cyber risks into the rail safety case system
• Define the requirements for new rail equipment, to enable safe and effective deployment into the Network
• Develop the requirements for rail franchise competitions, including comparator reviews, franchise financial modelling, and franchise bid evaluation.

Technology

We understand that technologies designed for cost effective, sustainable use require the visionary insights into the application of best practices. For our technology and product customers, ART has the experience to support the development and implementation of robustly architected frameworks. Our technology and product offering rely on delivery of quality products based on seven principles:

1. Functional Capability

ART has consistently applied advanced systems engineering-based techniques to help our clients determine, analyse, record, manage and close-out requirements (Commercial, Technical and Operational). We ensure that loopholes that could minimize product functionality are removed through our processes and systems we introduce

2. Product Reliability

ART has been introducing Reliability Centered Maintenance and implemented Product Design for Reliability, from concept through to product handover. We have achieved this successfully in the heavy plant and machinery sectors, oil & gas sector and transportation sector. Our capabilities include the application of Software Reliability, Hardware and Software Embedded Systems Reliability Engineering, concept design, requirements management, analysis, testing and validation methods and development of product manuals for certification and handover

3. Product Security

ART has an in-house team with the relevant competence in technology security. We have developed internal Technology Code of Practice, a set of criteria to help our clients design, build and buy technology. Our Code of Practice is our standardized approach to helping our clients in ensuring a controlled design and commercial process is always implemented

4. System Performance

Proving product performance has been a mainstay in our service offering to clients with the primary objectives being:

• i) highlight and correct areas of weakness
• ii) support and promote the strengths of clients products

To achieve these, we have developed in-house software solutions using basic Failure Reporting and Corrective Action principles. This has been applied to systems development projects and major £bn Infrastructure projects. We also have an Enterprise Asset Management System that can support clients from Concept through to Operation and Decommissioning.

5. Cost Optimization

We have been successful in savings for several clients by considering the following main pillars and constraints of product development within our Reliability and Cost Optimization models:

• i) Customer "changing" requirements
• ii) Changing technology
• iii) Planned, Revenue and Profit
• iv) Product Market Changes
• v) Time to Market.

Our Reliability and Cost Optimization techniques impact on many different aspects of our clients' operations, to provide a structured and verifiable development approach with resultant understandable reports on Product Reliability vs Cost, Product Performance and Availability vs Cost, Business Process Performance vs Cost etc.

6. Compliance & Competence

We crown our efforts by ensuring that where required, our clients get all the support required to gain external compliance for their technology. We achieve this by using the ART internal standardized and bespoke processes (Codes of Practices and Guidelines) and Internationally recognized Standards.

We also work directly with partner certification organizations to deliver Compliance Certifications for the Technology or Product. Areas we currently cover includes:

• i) EMC
• ii) Functional Safety
• iii) Asset Integrity & Management
• iv) Product Security

Our Training and After-care service is available for clients to help with the development of in-house competence in the identified areas

Assets, Processes and People

With Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), the aim is to optimise the management of the existing capital-intensive assets of an organisation. Three business items play an important role in this: Assets, Processes and People

1. Assets

The assets include all assets that are used to keep the company up and running such as machines, IT equipment, buildings, etc. A maintenance management system (OBS) or CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System) not only detects the existence of these assets, but also in addition, follows them from the engineering phase through the purchase and deployment to the deactivation. During this period, the assets are managed so that all planned or unplanned activities and related changes are recorded.

2. Processes

The processes are modelled on the services provided by your organisation. For a maintenance department, the internal customers are the most important service consumer. All processes are modelled to serve the customer efficiently in Maximo. Service-oriented organisations will handle questions, issues, changes, etc all in one integrated system.

3. People

Staff makes a difference in an organisation. Organisations increasingly dependent on their infrastructure to provide services to external customers. This means that, employees who experience disruptions in their work must be quickly and effectively assisted. This can be done by implementing e.g. incident registration, but also self service is a factor that is becoming increasingly important.

Product: IBM Maximo Asset Management

IBM Maximo Asset Management is a software system for managing the entire lifecycle of assets and workflow processes within a company. IBM Maximo Asset Management allows you to manage assets and business activities. IBM Maximo Asset Management offers insight into all your business assets, as well as their status and work for the benefit of optimal planning, control, audit and compliance.

Maximo Asset Management allows organisations to share and enforce best practices, inventory, resources and personnel. It helps manage all types of assets, including plant, production, infrastructure, facilities, transportation and communications.

It is available as an on-premises or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering.