AIR & WATER

MONITORING NEWSLETTER  

March 2013
No. 401

Pipelines Turn Toward Automation Through Intelligent Technology

Pipeline operators are focused on ensuring that their systems provide safe and reliable delivery. Doing so has its challenges, many of which can be managed through the use of technology to solve critical pipeline integrity management issues. Bart Elliott and Edwin Anderson analyzed integrity automation in Pipeline & Gas Journal.

Automation through intelligent technology is becoming a foundational need. The quality and sustainability of pipeline integrity management programs are based on the ability to effectively manage business processes, documents and data associated with pipeline assets. Automation of the management process is becoming a foundational requirement for many utilities that are actively creating systems to accommodate the next level of integrity management. Through the use of applying intelligent technology to support pipeline integrity, pipeline companies and utilities can create a much more sustainable, easy to access and improved cost effectiveness of their integrity processes over time. For gas utilities this automation is as revolutionary as the technology support behind the smart grid in the electric industry.

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