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07/24/2024

The engineer's primary mission is to protect the public, prioritizing the safety of users and property. It is crucial to never compromise this safety while integrating environmental preservation and reducing impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions.

Advanced solutions like Stelar play a crucial role by monitoring the 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 condition of assets and facilitating informed decisions on their maintenance based on risk, thereby contributing to safer and more sustainable infrastructure management.

Thank you to Faouzi Méribout, engineer in the Bridges and Civil Engineering team at Norda Stelo, for sharing his comment.

07/17/2024

Not having clear visibility into the true state of one’s assets can have major consequences, both for business performance and individual health.

Many companies still find themselves unable to continuously monitor the health of their 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒔. This lack of visibility is especially critical when it comes to static assets and essential infrastructures, such as pipes, tanks, and industrial buildings. Unlike operational equipment that generates continuous data, these static assets often do not provide automated feedback.

This can lead to unforeseen failures, increased safety risks, and unexpected costs. To avoid these issues, it is crucial to adopt solutions like Stelar that ensure a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of your infrastructure’s integrity. By integrating Stelar, companies not only enhance the performance and resilience of their equipment but also ensure a safer and more reliable work environment.

Here is a comment from Patrice Pagé, asset integrity and reliability engineer at Norda Stelo, on this topic.

07/17/2024

Ne pas avoir une visibilité claire sur l’état réel de ses actifs peut avoir des conséquences majeures, tant pour la performance des entreprises que pour la santé des individus.

De nombreuses entreprises se retrouvent encore dans l’incapacité de suivre la santé de leurs 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒔 en continu. Ce manque de visibilité est particulièrement critique lorsqu’il s’agit d’actifs statiques et d’infrastructures essentielles, tels que les tuyaux, réservoirs et bâtiments industriels. Contrairement aux équipements opérationnels qui génèrent des données continues, ces actifs statiques n’offrent pas souvent de retour d’information automatisé.

Cela peut entraîner des défaillances imprévues, des risques accrus pour la sécurité et des coûts inattendus. Pour éviter ces problèmes, il est crucial d’adopter des solutions telle que Stelar qui assurent une vue d’ensemble complète et actualisée de l’intégrité de vos infrastructures. En intégrant Stelar, les entreprises non seulement améliorent la performance et la durabilité de leurs équipements, mais aussi garantissent un environnement de travail plus sûr et plus fiable.

Voici un commentaire de Patrice Pagé, ingénieur en gestion d’intégrité et fiabilité des actifs chez Norda Stelo à ce sujet.

07/09/2024

Stelar: The Indispensable Ally for Environmental Excellence

Discover how project teams leverage Stelar to optimize their operations.

Sarah-Claude Lachance, a professional within the Center of Excellence for Social and Environmental Acceptability at Norda Stelo, explains how her team supports clients throughout the construction phase.

Their role is crucial in ensuring compliance with on-site work methods, thereby protecting and respecting local environmental components. In the event of unforeseen circumstances, their intervention is often indispensable to prevent any unintentional impact on the environment.

Moreover, they facilitate communication between clients and contractors using Stelar. This platform centralizes and digitizes asset data, making the documentation of on-site observations and the tracking of interventions more precise and rigorous.

Stelar enhances their ability to protect the environment in every project, ensuring impeccable and sustainable management.

Discover how Stelar can transform your practices and guarantee environmental excellence on your projects.

07/04/2024

Poor asset life cycle planning can lead to unplanned failures with serious consequences for the environment, health, safety, and resulting in revenue losses due to unforeseen costs and downtime.

A comprehensive 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 of asset health, based on engineering analyses, is essential for effective asset management planning.

Carefully monitoring end-of-life equipment to determine the optimal replacement time is equally crucial, based on factual data and thorough analyses.

Listen to Joël Fortin, engineer specializing in asset integrity and reliability management at Norda Stelo.

07/03/2024

Understanding the true condition of its assets presents substantial opportunities for a company. This includes benefits like enhancing maintenance planning, improving asset reliability, and prolonging asset lifespan, which in turn leads to more efficient resource allocation, informed decision-making, and regulatory compliance.

By integrating asset management considerations early in the design phases, companies can lower life cycle costs and boost asset performance. This ensures sustainable returns on investment and improves operational efficiency over time.

Prioritizing asset life cycle management with Stelar, an advanced asset integrity management software utilizing engineering expertise and artificial intelligence, enables businesses to optimize asset management from initial planning through decommissioning.

04/30/2024

Mining operations are on the verge of experiencing a transformative change in maintenance practices, and the upcoming CIM Connect conference in Vancouver promises to shed light on this evolution.

By combining the advanced expertise that asset integrity, reliability, and sustainability engineers have developed over the years with advanced analytics, it is now possible to significantly improve maintenance planning.

Martin Provencher, Vice President of Innovation and Solutions at Norda Stelo, will speak on Wednesday, May 15, about risk-based maintenance using Artificial Intelligence: https://bit.ly/3xRKNus.

As companies aim to maximize asset efficiency while reducing risks, Martin's presentation offers a roadmap to a new approach to industrial maintenance.

Stelar is a software solution for organisations looking to significantly enhance their asset management and maintenance practices based on engineering expertise and AI.

04/30/2024

Les opérations minières sont sur le point de connaître un changement transformateur dans les pratiques de maintenance, et la prochaine conférence CIM Connect à Vancouver promet d’éclairer cette évolution.

En combinant l’expertise avancée que les ingénieurs en intégrité, fiabilité et durabilité des actifs ont développée au fil des ans avec des analyses avancées, il est désormais possible d’améliorer considérablement la planification de la maintenance.

Martin Provencher, vice-président Innovations et Solutions de Norda Stelo, prendra la parole le mercredi 15 mai pour parler de la maintenance basée sur les risques en utilisant l’Intelligence Artificielle (IA) : https://bit.ly/3Ql3cXa.

Alors que les entreprises aspirent à maximiser l’efficacité de leurs actifs tout en réduisant les risques, la présentation de Martin propose une feuille de route vers une nouvelle approche à la maintenance industrielle.

Stelar est un logiciel pour les organisations qui souhaitent améliorer considérablement leurs pratiques en gestion et maintenance d’actifs en se basant sur l’expertise d’ingénierie et l’IA.

10/05/2023

Définir un plan stratégique en gestion des actifs n’est simple, puisqu’il faut, entre autres, récupérer toutes les données disponibles pour connaître l’état des actifs, les actions prises et les budgets dépensés.

Pour ce faire, il est nécessaire de retrouver et lire tous les rapports d’inspections, de récupérer les données des actifs de différents logiciels, de vérifier les bons de travail de la GMAO et des travaux qui ont été complétés au courant de l’année. Ces données se trouvent à plusieurs endroits plus ou moins accessibles et manquent d’uniformité.

Dans cet article, découvrez comment Stelar vous aide à planifier vos investissements en gestion d’actifs, en standardisant vos inspections et en centralisant vos données au même endroit.

En bout de piste, la différence entre une bonne et une mauvaise planification stratégique est l’adhérence au plan à la fin de l’année. Trop souvent, les entreprises préparent un plan de projets capitalisables qui ne tient pas 12 mois en raison d’urgences grugeant l’entièreté du budge...

10/05/2023

Defining a strategic asset management plan is not a simple task, since it requires, among other things, gathering all available data to understand the state of assets, actions taken, budgets expended and remaining assets lifespan.

To accomplish this, it is necessary to locate and read through all the inspection reports, retrieve asset data from various software systems, verify maintenance work orders in the CMMS and review work completed over the course of the year. These data are scattered across multiple locations, some more accessible than others, and lack uniformity.

In this article, find out how Stelar helps you plan your asset management investments, by standardizing your inspections and centralizing your data in one place.

In the end the difference between good and bad strategic planning lies in the adherence to the plan at the end of the year. All too often, companies devise a plan for capital projects that does not last 12 months due to emergencies that consume the entire budget. Should we be reminded that an emerge...