HOIS Highlights 2023-2024
Digitalisation of Inspection and Asset Integrity in the Energy Industry
Background
HOIS has had an active project in this area since 2019. The first phase developed a landscaping study on digitalisation opportunities for inspection, NDT, monitoring and plant integrity in the energy sector and a roadmap (‘The HOIS Digital Agenda’) for HOIS future involvement.
Three written guidance documents on mini digital twins, information flow and end-to-end digitalisation are publicly available. A regular HOIS Digitalisation Forum has been established, providing regular webinars on a range of diverse topics as we move forward with the uptake of NDE4.0.
Digitalisation of Visual Inspection Review
A strategic review of the successful digitalisation of external visual inspection has been delivered. This report looks in detail at this example of successful and rapid digitalisation where new technology, analytics and processes are key to facilitation of a digitalised approach to inspection.
Promotion of NDT Innovation
Building on this work we developed a cost benefit methodology to identify drivers and blockers for the introduction of digitalised NDT covering all aspects of change on secondary aspects such as storage and analysis of data. This report provides a framework to facilitate discussions between NDT innovators and potential clients as to the full impact of adopting change at any point in the NDT digitalised workflow.
The aim is to identify the factors of greatest benefit but also flag up any potential previously unseen blockers to adoption that can be dealt with earlier in the innovation cycle.
Automated Interpretation of Inspection
A new project has recently started which aims to provide guidance to build confidence in the application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for NDT data interpretation and analytics.
ML and AI is a vast and rapidly emerging topic, but the effectiveness of a specific tool can be highly application dependent.
Most NDT professionals do not have a computer science background – the new project will provide tools and resources for NDT professionals, to help them become informed consumers when looking to invest in AI based solutions, support them to ensure appropriate selection and once adopted, provide guidance to identify suitable auditing and verification processes to build confidence in the continuing capabilities.
Linking Data to Users
A new project is underway to review the current progress standardising the digital interfacing between inspection providers and the end clients with the intention of putting forward project proposals for any gaps HOIS’ members collective skills and knowledge base can fill.
