Basics of Completions Management Software
Completion management software ensures that your asset — in whom you invested significant amounts of money, time and effort — is handed over to a well-prepared owner-operator armed with a portfolio of legacy and comprehensive care notes.
What Is Completion Management Software?
Using software solutions for completion management minimizes errors and delays that compromise smooth operations during the handover of a facility or project from contractor to client. This digital solution avoids labor-intensive paper trails and other delays that plague non-digital handovers.
A Completion Management System (Completions, for short) is effectively a single-source of information into which all activities are inputted, thereby creating a global sharing environment visible to all parties that includes such features as streamlined project management tools and reporting.
Offering full transparency, the shared Completions interface makes for a dependable and quality-assured integrity management system.
A thoughtfully designed Completions database drives industrial projects from early phases through completion and is compatible with digital operational systems that follow.
Handovers are, simply, the transfer of responsibility of the new or repaired asset(s) from contractor to client. Digital handovers confirm that, for example, all Inspection Test Records (ITRs) have been completed to spec in advance of this changing of hands.
The terms completion and handover are easy to mix up, but they represent the two distinct phases of the overall handover process, for which completion management software systems serve to minimize disruption.
Handover Milestones and Transfer of Responsibility
As mentioned, digital completions systems address the two phases that make up the transfer of asset or facility responsibility from the contractor to the owner-operator, which are as follows:
- Complete Phase, which ensure that the construction project and/or maintenance activities are finished to specification and are quality assured; and
- Handover Phase, which ensures that the asset(s) and/or facility is fit for purpose and ready to be brought online, or energized.
Traditionally, these phases would require lengthy paper-trails that are prone to human error. Any inaccurate or missing information runs the risk of compromising compliant and efficient operations following transfer of responsibility to the client.
Completion Management Systems certify each of the two milestones, ensuring that the owner-operator inherits what I’ll refer to as a plug-and-play operation without unnecessary headaches, hassle or downtime. Effective completions result in safe, dependable, maintainable and operable deliverables that are fit for purpose.
Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) projects, as well as maintenance and operations contracts, require sound commissioning practices that are most easily achieved through the use of digital project completion management system software.
If you are interested in knowing more about digital advantages completions software brings to the projects, check out the original blog.
This article first appeared on MODS Energy Industry Blog https://blog.mods.solutions/project-handover
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