Salem Automation - Control, Safety, Tracking, Mustering and Travel Management Systems

Salem Automation Limited, has been providing hands free, fully automated personnel management systems for use on oil and gas platforms in the North Sea since 1996.

With its substantial experience designing and engineering plant-wide, computer-based safety and control systems to the world's major oil and gas producers, Salem Automation has designed and developed a unique, flexible personnel management and administration system for the onshore / offshore environment.

The powerful, user-configurable system operates across any configuration of offshore platforms and land-based installations to precisely determine the identities and numbers of personnel in real time, within different platform or plant areas and provides tools to organise (onshore and offshore) travel.

The personnel tracking system interfaces with shore-based heliports and platform travel management systems to confirm personnel / freight manifests aboard scheduled helicopter flights to and from platforms, and also with the rapid mustering system to provide rapid mustering of personnel during safety drills or incidents.

S3 SAFE SECURE SOLUTIONS FOR OFFSHORE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

S3 is an integrated family of client / server applications including:

• S3TM travel management
• S3PT real time personnel tracking
• S3MS rapid electronic mustering
• PC-based web enabled Oracle database
• Hazardous area field equipment
• Training and certification recording
• Interface to Vantage POB and DaWinci

S3 OFFERS BENEFITS TO SYSTEM USERS

• OIM - Onshore HQ: electronic paper muster count and POB, providing accurate and instantly available reports in the event of a serious incident
• Heli-Admin: accurate tool to manage flights and bed allocation
• Pilots: accurate manifest and reduced cockpit paperwork
• Accountants: accurate and effective cost code utilisation for cross company
• allocation of costs, e.g. improved helicopter flight utilisation saved one company £2,000 pounds per flight and over a 12 month period reduced flights by 5 flights per month, or £120,000 savings per year
• Return on investment in less than nine months for a typical installed system

The major software components of the S3 web server are:

• Microsoft Windows server 2003 operating system
• Oracle 9i database
• Oracle 9i application server, including OC4J web server

The S3 software has been written with Oracle Jdeveloper 9i R3 and utilises Java technology. Primarily Java Servlets are used because of their flexibility and power. Servlets allow complex functions, calculations and database calls to be performed on the web server, transparent to the user who only sees the generated web pages.

Java Applets are utilised where data is constantly updating and is complex and graphically detailed and hence process-demanding, for example on overview maps.

Client side JavaScript is used to validate and control data entry, printing and other similar functionality as it doesn't require page refreshes (therefore it is fast) and can easily relate to the browser as well as the HTML code.

S3 CLIENTS

S3 Clients can be based on any Microsoft Windows operating system that can support IE5.5 or higher. Clients require the Java plug-in (International version 1.4.1_01) due to applets being used (Java 2 support is not included in current versions of IE).

For further information about Salem S3 or to arrange a product demonstration please contact Salem Automation.