Roxtec continues to make major strides in its mission to service the offshore oil and gas sector, driven by industry-leading technical knowledge and the desire to deliver real innovation.
The leading cable and pipe seal manufacturer works to bring a diverse range of new products to market for the benefit of its customers in the industry – offering high-tech solutions in key areas such as software development.
The Roxtec Software Suite is a great example. It has been developed to simplify work with everything from design, drawings and certificates through to installation, quality checks and mandatory documentation.
Users in the offshore oil and gas sector benefit from a seamless workflow, from design and production through to operation.
And that means Roxtec customers save time, increase quality and optimise safety throughout the lifecycle of their asset and can ensure total control.
The suite contains digital tools for designers, production teams and owners. These tools work together, in real time, to ensure documented quality – from planning and construction through to future upgrades of any type of asset, such as a drilling rig.
The set of interlinked tools is proving its use for anyone working with sealing solutions for cables and pipes and it enables efficient cooperation and synchronization between the many actors and suppliers in an offshore oil or gas project.
Users can select and buy the right seals, document the process and report transit status in accordance with official standards and regulations.
‘Roxtec Transit Designer’ allows its users to design in hundreds of cable and pipe transits in just a few minutes. It has been created as a quick, safe and easy way to generate all required manufacturer-approved outputs.
Quality assurance and production management specialists can use the constantly updated ‘Roxtec Transit Build’ tool to control and document cable and pipe seal installation quality and keep the latest information available for installers and surveyors.
And ‘Roxtec Transit Operate’ is a complete registry management software. It keeps track of transits, from initial installations to recent upgrades with cables, pipes and equipment.
With an up-to-date transit log and the inclusion of documents such as drawings, pictures, product data, installation instructions and certificates, it has been designed for owners and operators who want to guarantee a high safety level through the entire lifecycle of their asset.
The suite is regularly extended with new features and functions as Roxtec continues to innovate.
As Kristofer Hervius Eidelöf, business developer of digital solutions at Roxtec, explains: “The suite contains digital tools to help designers, installers and owners ensure total control.
“We have developed industry leading tools for managing cable and pipe transits, saving businesses significant amounts of time whilst also giving peace of mind when it comes to safety.”
The Roxtec Transit Designer has become an efficient everyday tool for thousands of designers and engineers.
Gary Jennings, working as lead electrical designer for a major engineering company with an international reach, used the online tool on a large oil and gas offshore facility project.
He says: “We were able to import data on 11,940 cables directly into the Roxtec software. We saved several weeks – if not months and were definitely heroes in that project.”
The web-based application has been developed to simplify product selection as well as the entire process that surrounds cable and pipe transits. Designers just enter their input to automatically generate full documentation.
He was happy to be able to use it when the customer asked for detailed packing plans and lists a short amount of time before their scheduled cable pulling activities.
Carrying out what would have been several weeks’ work in a few hours he was able to supply the customer with all the information they needed.
He says: “Instead of having to enter every cable and window, I took all the information from the database program we used, put it into the Roxtec tool and got it validated. It was an absolute necessity because of the time limit we had.”
It was also a way for the project to ensure that all cable transit decisions were taken by the designers and not by the cable pullers and installers in the field.
Jennings says: “I see this coming as a requirement as projects are getting bigger. It’s my job to make sure we meet all the standards, regulations and fire rating specifications.”
The tool’s ability to help designers optimise the size of the cable transits and avoid space issues was another plus during the work.
He adds: “One of our major challenges is to size the transits correctly. If we don’t build them big enough due to lack of data in the beginning of a project, we have to cut out and resize the old transits or find another space to put a transit in later on.”
For details of Roxtec and its digital suite please visit: www.roxtec.com/uk/software/software-suite/