<h3>Case Study: Evaluating Asset Fitness for Service</h3> <p>Learn how utilizing SAIM data trends helped detect faulty equipment and aided with critical decision making.</p>

Case Study: Evaluating Asset Fitness for Service

Learn how utilizing SAIM data trends helped detect faulty equipment and aided with critical decision making.

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<h3>Case Study: Monitoring Fuel During a Pandemic</h3> <p>Learn how the SAIM Inventory Module played a critical role in informing fuel storage and supply decisions as consumption halted due to COVID-19.</p>

Case Study: Monitoring Fuel During a Pandemic

Learn how the SAIM Inventory Module played a critical role in informing fuel storage and supply decisions as consumption halted due to COVID-19.

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<h3>Case Study: Making Informed Decisions in an Emergency</h3> <p>Learn how SAIM helped to minimize business interruption during an off-spec fuel event at a major airport.</p>

Case Study: Making Informed Decisions in an Emergency

Learn how SAIM helped to minimize business interruption during an off-spec fuel event at a major airport.

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Case Study: Evaluating Asset Fitness for Service

Learn how utilizing SAIM data trends helped detect faulty equipment and aided with critical decision making.

The Situation

The operator of the fuel storage facility of a major international airport relies on radar gauges on the fuel tanks to measure fuel level. SAIM collects and archives the fluid level data from these gauges in real-time. Using the live dashboards, SAIM support staff reviewed the historical data and noticed sudden, unusual spikes in fluid level values. They knew it was impossible for a tank to fill up so quickly.

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<h3>Case Study: Evaluating Asset Fitness for Service</h3> <p>Learn how utilizing SAIM data trends helped detect faulty equipment and aided with critical decision making.</p>

Challenges

  • By reviewing historical data, the SAIM Support Team discovered the tank’s radar gauge had a glitch that showed false spikes in fuel level data, prompting the need for replacement or repair.
  • If the gauge continued to malfunction without the operator knowing, the operations parameters would become unreliable.

SAIM Solutions

  • The SAIM internet-of-things module was able to flag intermittent spikes in the values of gross volume.
  • By uncovering the incorrect information, the operator can make better, more informed decisions in critical times.
  • Without SAIM, the typical Human Machine Interface (HMI) would not show granular data and lacks historical trends capabilities. HMI simply displays data, leaving operators with no technical reference for what the quantities really mean.
  • HMI is also not accessible by remote subject matter experts. SAIM brought critical information to the cloud providing transparency for all stakeholders to see and understand the data and make informed decisions.
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The Impact

SAIM is critical for equipment health monitoring, or assets fitness-for-service. In this case, the operator had solid evidence and historical data to engage with the radar manufacturer and request repair of the gauge per warranty.

The process led to upgrading all radars across the tank farm as well as regular maintenance by the manufacturer. SAIM confirmed the levels were accurate and no further anomalies have been detected.

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Case Study: Monitoring Fuel During a Pandemic

Learn how the SAIM Inventory Module played a critical role in informing fuel storage and supply decisions as consumption halted due to COVID-19.

The Situation

The COVID-19 pandemic caused commercial airlines and airports to experience a sudden, significant drop in fuel consumption. The aviation fuel handling operator at one of America’s largest international airports went from 30,000 barrels of fuel consumption a day to 8,000. Changes needed to be implemented immediately to fuel receipt and storage protocols to avoid safety hazards and costly miscalculations.

<h3>Case Study: Monitoring Fuel During a Pandemic</h3> <p>Learn how the SAIM Inventory Module played a critical role in informing fuel storage and supply decisions as consumption halted due to COVID-19.</p>

Challenges

  • Previously ordered fuel deliveries were already in route via the pipeline to the tank farm at the airport.
  • The operator had to decide if it could receive all the fuel without shutting down the receipt pipeline.
  • Stopping and restarting pipelines is costly and raising fuel levels in the storage tank can jeopardize operations due to high-level (HL) alarm activity.

SAIM Solutions

  • The SAIM Inventory Module allowed the operator to easily monitor remaining tank storage capacity.
  • The SAIM Support Team provided immediate, remote assistance.
  • With clear data, the operator determined the incoming fuel deliveries would well exceed the HL alarm limit.
  • Accessible, electronic standards documents in the SAIM dashboard helped the operator quickly understand the high fuel level would breach protocols and violate ATA 103.
  • The data needed to solve this problem was all cloud-based and accessible for all parties involved.
  • The operator, owner, airport fuel committee and SAIM support team were able to quickly make an informed decision to divert the fuel and shut down the pipeline.
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The Impact

The SAIM Inventory Module allows the operator to continuously monitor Days on Reserve to be in control of their supply chain and have foresight on the inventory versus the current demand. In crisis situations like the COVID-19 pandemic, SAIM provided the operator with real-time information to determine their total inventory accurately and to schedule next fuel receipts on an as-needed basis.

The SAIM platform provides transparency for owners to access data remotely, no matter where they are in the world.

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Case Study: Making Informed Decisions in an Emergency

Learn how SAIM helped to minimize business interruption during an off-spec fuel event at a major airport.

The Situation

The operator of the fuel storage facility for one of the nation’s busiest airports was notified by the upstream terminal that it received fuel that did not meet Jet Fuel Thermal Oxidation Test (JFTOT) standards. This is one of 16 required criteria to certify fuel to go in an aircraft.

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<h3>Case Study: Making Informed Decisions in an Emergency</h3> <p>Learn how SAIM helped to minimize business interruption during an off-spec fuel event at a major airport.</p>

Challenges

  • Supply chain received fuel that did not meet standards for JFTOT into terminal storage.
  • The terminal receives Jet-A from a multiproduct pipeline and stores it in dedicated tankage until it can become certified. It is then pushed to the airport.
  • Two large tanks were impacted and taken out of service. If the tanks were not emptied by the time the next pipeline cycle was scheduled, the pipeline would have to be shutdown.
  • To avoid impact to flight operations and manage fuel storage reserves, stakeholders needed to quickly identify a plan to address the off-spec fuel.
  • The situation required 24/7 monitoring for several days.
  • All stakeholders needed to be kept informed throughout the event, including:
    • Local Airport Facility Operator: onsite staff responsible for addressing the JFTOT issue and maintaining routine operations.
    • Airline fuel representatives: key decision makers to determine if off-spec fuel would impact ability to support airline operations.
    • Fuel suppliers: responsible for maintaining fuel supply to support operations and addressing off-spec fuel.
    • Engineering: supporting infrastructure/operational decisions to receive treated fuel at the airport facility.

SAIM Solutions

  • A protocol was developed where the required additive was injected into the flow stream as the fuel was transferred to the airport.
  • In parallel, both onsite and remote airport stakeholders used SAIM’s cloud data management features to easily gather information and make informed decisions on how to respond to the receipt of treated fuel.
  • Airport storage tanks were selected for the deliveries and were to remain quarantined until additional testing could be performed to confirm the fuel met specification.
  • Mechanisms were added to ensure off-spec fuel was not co-mingled with on-spec fuel.
  • Projections of on-spec fuel availability were forecasted based upon the duration of the response to the off-spec fuel and future deliveries.
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The Impact

Using the SAIM platform, the operator and the Engineer of Record could quickly respond and monitor the situation over several days to address the off-spec fuel and avoid costly interruptions to airport operations. Travel to the location was not necessary, saving crucial time and resources.

Everyone involved had immediate and real-time visualization of the current and historical daily uplift, and the quantity of fuel in storage that was available for use. Models were established of fuel availability based upon varying scenario inputs: actual and projected uplift, tank out of service duration, date/time of next scheduled delivery, and volume of scheduled deliveries.

Data supported informed business decision making and gave airline representatives confidence that it was not necessary to reduce airline flight operations at the airport, which is extremely impactful to nationwide air service and customers. It also helped avoid expensive fuel tankering operations.

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