The top section of the Engineering tab displays four totals: Total Flanges, Flanges on Isometric drawings, Flanges on P&ID drawings and the total number of Leak Test packs.

In the example below, these totals are 44, 40, 39 and 2 respectively.

As flanges are created or deleted, or added/removed from drawings, these counts will update.

Also, every dashboard area had a Refresh icon (green-highlighted icon in the image below) if required to re-display any of the dashboard charts.

The Operations tab includes a breakdown of joint Status by System. The three status categories displayed are Disassembled, Assembled and Tested.

NOTE: The vertical axis displays percentages of flanges in each system and not the actual number of flanges.

In the example above there are 3 Systems in the project: systems 591, 601 and 701. Currently, System 701 contains no flanges with any of these 3 activities against them.

1.2.1 – Displaying Operational Activity Status Changes

If the user logs an operational activity against a flange in System 701 for example this will display in this Systems chart.

As an example, the user logs a Disassemble activity against one System 701 flange and an Assemble activity against another System 701 flange.

User logs a Disassemble activity against flange FJ001:

User then logs an Assemble activity against flange FJ002:

Now the dashboard updates automatically to reflect that System 701 now contains 2 flanges; 50% of which are Assembled while 50% are Disassembled.

The Operations tab displays the key operational activities which have been carried out on flanges. They are expressed in terms of Systems, Workpacks, Modules and Areas.

It also graphs them as activities performed over the previous 30 days, as highlighted in the green box below.

This ‘Last 30 Days’ chart displays today’s date on the left-hand side and the date 30 days ago on the right-hand side.

In the example below, several different types of activities have been carried out on flanges in the past few days, as indicated by the green arrow.

On the right-hand side, some activities were carried out approximately 1 month ago.

In the chart below, no activities have been carried out today.

Now, if the user carries out one Disassemble activity on a single flange and then they re-open the dashboard’s Operations tab, a new Disassemble activity is now visible against today’s date.

Any anomalies which are recorded during operational activities are recorded in the Quality Control (QC) tab charts.

1.4.1 – Recording an Anomaly

The charts record anomalies for all flanges in the database. In the example below, there are no flanges with operational anomalies currently.

A flange is put through a Disassemble activity, and the user records an anomaly against it.

Upon re-opening the Digital Dashboard’s QC tab, the Anomalies Raised count now displays ‘1’.

1.4.2 – Resolving an Anomaly

If an anomaly is then resolved, the Anomalies Resolved count increases.

The above anomaly has been resolved, and so the Anomalies Resolved count increases to ‘1’ also.

NOTE: while a flange has an unresolved anomaly, no further activities can be recorded against it until the anomaly is resolved.

The Overall Status chart in the Operations tab displays the general status of joints in the flange register.

The overall Status chart displays flanges which are in the states of:
– Disassembled
– Assembled
– Tightened
– Temporary Tightened
– Leak Tested.

Hover the mouse over any of the coloured status segments. This will display a tooltip containing the number of flanges with that particular status.

In the example below of a very small database, there is only one Assembled flange.

If required, click the Refresh icon in the top right corner to redraw and update the chart.

The four doughnut charts in the QC tab display the numbers of activities which have had inspections performed during/post-activity.

As an example, the Assembly Activities Inspected chart displays that there have been 2 Uninspected Assembly Activities carried out.

If the user runs an Assembly activity and assigns an inspector to it as shown below, the dashboard chart will update to display that there is now one flange with an Inspected Assembly activity in the database.

Use the checkboxes to select a flange(s) to generate Work Instruction Reports for. Click the Work Instruction Report (Selected) option and the report will generate automatically.

Save this file with a suitable name to a location to open from.

To generate a Work Instruction for all flanges in the Flange Register, click the Work Instruction (Grid) version of the report. If there are multiple pages of flanges, they will all be included in the report.

Use the checkboxes to select a flange(s) to generate Joint Completion Certificate for. Click the JCC (Selected) option and the report will generate automatically.

Save this file with a suitable name to a location on your computer.

To generate a Joint Completion Certificate for all flanges in the Flange Register, click the JCC (Grid) version of the report.

If there are multiple pages of flanges in the Flange Register, they will all be included in the report.

To generate Datasheet (Selected) reports, click the checkboxes of the flanges of interest and select Datasheet (Selected).

The datasheet report will generate automatically.

Save this report with a suitable filename to a location on your computer.

To generate a single Datasheet report for all flanges in the register, click the Datasheet (Grid) option. This will include all flanges across all pages in the Flange Register.

To generate a MTO (Material Take Off) Summary report for some particular flange(s), select the checkboxes of the flanges of interest and click MTO Summary (Selected) from the reports icon.

The report will generate automatically as shown below.

Save the MTO Summary excel file to a location on your computer using a suitable filename.

To generate a single MTO file for all flanges in the register, select the MTO Summary (Grid) report option.

For flanges which have been through a Remachine operational activity, a Remachine Report can be generated which shows the material removed from various surfaces of the flange.

2.5.1 – Identify Remachined Flanges in the Flange Register

To quickly identify all remachined flanges in the project, use the flange register category filter shown below and select Remachined Joints.

This filters the flange register and display only joints which have completed a Remachine activity.

Select the flange(s) of interest and click the Remachine Report (Selected) option.

This will generate a Remachine Report as in the example below.

The Flange Identification table displays the values which the user manually inputs during the Remachine activity. In the example below, the Raised Face Height has been machined down from 5.65mm to 5.4mm.

2.5.2 – Remachine Report (Grid)

Instead of using the Remachined Joints filter (above), or even manually selecting every remachined flange, the user can also simply select the Grid option.

This will output a Remachine report for every flange in the register, whether they have been remachined or not.

There are 2 types of Flange Sign-Off reports: As Planned and As Carried Out.

Subsequently, both report types can also be generated for Selected flanges and also for the complete flange register Grid.

2.6.1 – As Planned Sign-Off Reports

As Planned Sign-Off reports include the torque or tensioning values which are planned for tightening the respective flange(s) during a Torque/Tension activity.

Select a flange(s) and click As Planned (Selected). The report will generate and open automatically.

As shown above, tooling and tightening pressure values will be populated.

Instead of the Selected version of the report, clicking As Planned (Grid) will generate for all flanges in the flange register grid.

2.6.2 – As Carried Out Sign-Off Reports

By contrast, As Carried Out Sign-Off reports include empty spaces for the same fields. In these spaces, technicians should manually record the ACTUAL values that are achieved during Torque/Tension tightening.

Select a flange(s) and click As Carried Out (Selected). The As Carried Out report will contain blank spaces in the Torque/Tension tightening activities as below. Here the technicians will manually record actual values from the activity.

And similar to other report types, instead of the Selected variation of the report, clicking As Planned (Grid) will generate for all flanges in the flange register, across all register pages.

Excel files versions of the flange register can be produced using the two Export to Excel report options.

The first option is Export ALL to Excel. If the user selects this, this will generate an excel file which will contain all flanges across all pages in the flange register.

The second option – Export to Excel – will generate a report containing only flanges displayed on the currently viewed page.

So for example, below is the second of two pages of flanges, which displays only the final 19 flanges in the register.

If the user selects Export to Excel here, the report will only generate this page of 19 flanges

There is one single option for exporting the flange register to a PDF file.

Simply select the Export to PDF option, specify a suitable filename and location to save the report and click Save.

Opening the exported PDF file displays similar to the below example.