We specialize in custom applications for risk management, vulnerability assessment, administrative tasks and linking diverse site data sources. These solutions fall into several categories, as follows.

Risk Assessment and Management

ePHA for process hazard analysis -- our Excel-based tool for the facilitation and documentation of process hazard analyses, and the tracking of PHA action items to completion. For more information see the ePHA page.

eFTA for developing and quantifying fault trees -- our Excel-based approach to side-by-side integration of both the graphical and the computational elements of fault tree analysis, using a gate-to-gate method that shows the results for all precursor events and immediately recalculates all results when any input parameter is changed. Multiple fault trees, each with its own severity estimate, can be combined to give total risk measures. Data sources are fully documented and global parameters are easily defined.

eToxQRA for toxic chemical risk analysis and management -- an integrated, quantitative, risk-based approach, fully consistent with CCPS Guidelines, for modeling accidental releases of highly toxic chemicals and supporting risk-based decision making. For more information see the eToxQRA page.

eMargin for reliability allocation -- a tool for optimizing the distribution of equipment reliability relative to feedstock and product market values in complex industrial facilities such as refineries, petrochemical plants, and offshore production platforms. An example of an eMargin study is available on our books, papers and presentations page. For more information see the eMargin page.

eSite for facility siting risk analysis and management -- a quantitative risk-based model focusing on fire and explosion hazards, supporting risk prioritization and cost-benefit analysis of risk-reduction options. The model provides a means of addressing CMA/API RP-752 as well as broader issues of facility siting.

Vulnerability and Security Assessment

eVA-H₂0 for facilitating and documenting vulnerability assessments of community water systems -- our Excel-based tool integrates a suite of techniques identified in the EPA-sponsored RAM-W^sm methodology for conducting vulnerability assessments of drinking water systems, as required under Public Law 107-188. These techniques include pairwise comparison methods for the prioritization of critical facilities, generic fault trees for system-specific adaptation, scenario documentation worksheets, and risk evaluation methods.

Software for Site Productivity

Our clients frequently find that off-the-shelf software either fails to conform to the way they manage site functions or fails to integrate and share information with other software onsite. To address these shortcomings, we develop fully customized applications for managing critical site activities. The benefits that our applications have provided to our customers include:

	increased productivity through improved communication and prioritization
	simplified user interfaces, especially for technicians
	reduction of data entry errors
	increased productivity through superior user interface design and clarity of data presentation
	elimination of data and data-entry redundancy through site-wide integration of data sources
	increased use of proper procedures through direct, context-sensitive linking of relevant site standards.

A sampling of our software solutions:

Maintenance management systems -- We build systems for site-wide collection and management of maintenance work orders, with features that satisfy specific regulatory requirements for mechanical integrity. Components of these systems include: asset management and criticality; scheduled maintenance (PM) activities; resource and personnel management.

Material labeling systems -- These systems manage material labeling to help achieve quality assurance (e.g., FDA, ISO-9000 regulatory compliance) and other operational goals. They prevent printing or duplication of labels by unauthorized personnel, draw on or implement centralized facility databases (e.g., material properties data) to control label content and reduce or eliminated data entry errors, and track use of labels to ensure that they are not misapplied.

Waste tracking systems -- These systems build on the formality and logging of material labeling systems to help manage EPA RCRA-compliant waste management. Integrating with optical scanning systems (e.g., barcode readers), they track individual waste containers through all handling and treatment events to provide: notification of inappropriate routing of waste within the facility, notification of regulatory staging, transport and paperwork deadlines, detailed manifests for waste shipments, and summary reports for submission to regulatory agencies.