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By Vitalii Yeliashevskyi , Principal Engineer How to Build or Optimize your Asset Register Using Intelligent Drawing Digitalization Building and maintaining an asset register has always been a time-consuming task requiring thousands of engineering hours going through drawings and manuals. Especially old plants and installations present a challenge as these usually must be built from scratch […]

By Nadia Hromak, SAP Application Manager The key benefits of utilizing ERP systems in your organization is the ability to have access to all the business information that is required in order to make fast decisions in a constantly changing environment. A successful implementation of large ERP systems like SAP requires simultaneous integration across different […]

By Vasyl Panasiuk, Senior Engineer Problem 1: Housekeeping In today’s warehouse management, the only thing that matters is the presence of a material, not its location. However, disorder, heaping, dirt, dust, lack of light and labeling can all lead to a lot of time spent searching for and issuing materials. SOLUTION: Сleaning: The warehouse must be well-groomed […]

By Vitalii Yeliashevskyi, Senior Engineer “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” ━ Confucius Messy warehouses are a common problem in asset-intensive industries, often resulting in overwhelming stock value.  For client-to-client businesses, it is common to strive to reduce the value of the stock. Further, every client wants to make the stock […]

COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of life; Keel Offshore Services is no exception. As of March 2020, some of our offshore projects have been put on hold or canceled due to the 2020 oil market crisis and travel restrictions all over the world. In this uncertain environment, Keel has managed to reorganize offshore engineering resources […]

Oftentimes, barrier management programs are developed at the end of the commissioning and early in the operation stage. Its implementation into the maintenance system is a standard activity for every complex asset which works in the energy sector, especially in the upstream and downstream oil, gas and petrochemical industry. When it comes to implementation, it […]

By Vitalii Yeliashevskyi, Senior Engineer A common mistake in the implementation of maintenance systems for asset-intensive industries is it being treated as a pure IT project. Oftentimes, only a few or no technical people with domain knowledge of the asset maintenance processes and hands-on experience are involved. As a result, the usage of the maintenance […]

Windpower Big Data usage enabled through SAP solutions.  It has already been 5 years since we have started working with wind turbines. So far, over 10 000 wind turbine generators (WTGs) have been assigned specific RDS-PP structures with our help. What we have noticed is that around 60-90% of components are repetitive in similar turbine […]

KICKer is being actively used in our projects, therefore, we’ve been constantly working on expanding its functionality. Here are the latest key updates that help us significantly speed up the classification process:  Use with all Classification Systems KICKer can now be used to classify items using different classification systems. We expanded its standards base by […]

Keel has reached a milestone of implementing the RDS-PP T32 standard for more than 10 000 wind turbine generators with a total capacity of over 30 GW.  What does this mean? Simply put, this supply is enough to provide energy to over 4 million households. What’s in it for the businesses? The enterprises benefit from […]