Description

Many organisations initiate investigations into infrequent, high consequence plant failures or frequent, medium to low cost incidents. However, many times they:

fail to complete the investigation;

fail to implement the solution; or

have a poor system for storing, referencing or searching investigation reports.

This situation leads to a cycle of repeated instances of the same failure and a waste of effort when investigations are half done or not implemented.

RIMSys™ is a system to facilitate the management of failures, incidents and small projects.

RIMSys™ is low cost network based software that defines a simple process of incident "Raising", "Investigation", "Action" recommendation, "Approval", "Implementation" and "Close".

It can be downloaded, installed and operational within an hour and can be used with no formal training.

RIMSys™ will help to quickly break your cycle of repeated failure instances and regain the production you are probably losing to those high consequence or frequent failures.

Key Features

RIMSys™ is a system that supports the incident management process of:

recording,

allocating responsibilities,

investigating,

recommending actions,

approving,

implementing, and

closing.

Is network based allowing unlimited incident raisers.

Has definable staff access levels.

Stores records in formal database environment where records cannot be lost and status can be reviewed simply and quickly.

Allows grouping, filtering and reporting of the status of incidents including 'time in stage'.

Has extensive reporting capability and allows export of reports into MS Excel format.

Can be configured to automatically email people at different stages of the investigation / resolution process.

Works with MS Outlook, MS Outlook Express, Lotus Notes and MS Exchange.

Configurable system messages allowing communication of important information to plant staff.

Allows linking to electronic documents including photographs.

User definable risk matrix.

Rapid risk ranking.

User definable incident consequence categories.

Can be used to manage Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S).

Definable equipment structure including an equipment structure copy feature.

Can be interfaced with other systems such as CMMS, PLC, SCADA, CITECT or DCS.

Links with the PMO2000™ Reliability Improvement software allowing immediate access to Preventive Maintenance tasks relevant to the failed equipment.

Computer, Operating System and Other Requirements

RIMSys™ runs on the MS Windows XP, 2000, NT and 98 operating systems.

Disk space requirements vary according to intended use. Client machines require only 6 Megabytes of disk space. The machine on which the database resides will require at least 20 Megabytes of disk space at the time of installation. The disk space required during use will expand as use continues.

Other software that RIMSys™ requires will be installed during the installation process.

To take advantage of the full functionality RIMSys™ offers, other software is also required. These are:

MS Outlook, Outlook Express and or MS Exchange.

MS Excel.