ABYSS launches digital isometrics for critical infrastructure
ABYSS has relaunched as an Asset Operating Environment company and launched Digital Isometrics in ABYSS Fabric™, a product line that creates piping isometrics from scans of real assets. The Houston company says the drawings stay current as inspection work is carried out.
- ABYSS has relaunched from Abyss Solutions around the Asset Operating Environment category.
- Digital Isometrics creates piping drawings from reality capture models.
- Field findings synchronize with the 3D record and anomaly register.
- The product is available now across four critical infrastructure sectors.
- ABYSS reports up to 85% asset capture in months.
From inspection technology to an asset operating environment
Formerly known as Abyss Solutions, ABYSS says it is repositioning the company around a category designed to connect the physical condition of critical infrastructure with the systems, teams and decisions that depend on it. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas, operates worldwide and serves operators in offshore energy, refining, chemicals and civil infrastructure.
According to ABYSS, its work covers 150 deployments across 35 assets in the Gulf of America, the GCC, the United Kingdom and Brazil. The company began as an inspection technology business using robotics, imaging and AI to capture the condition of infrastructure including offshore platforms, process units, tanks, pipelines, tunnels and water systems.
ABYSS says operators commonly work with outdated drawings, inspection reports in PDFs, risk models and work order systems that do not share the same view of an asset. Its ABYSS Fabric™ platform is intended to provide a single record of asset condition across integrity, maintenance, engineering and operations.
Digital Isometrics links drawings to inspection work
The first product line under the relaunched company addresses piping isometrics, which ABYSS says are often outdated or unavailable. Digital Isometrics generates drawings from an operator's reality capture model, removing manual drafting and additional site time for this step.
Inspectors can use the isometric on a tablet in the field and mark findings directly on the drawing, inspection photos or the 3D model. ABYSS says each finding synchronizes with the 3D record and anomaly register, while paper and PDF markups can be placed on the same drawing without retyping.
The drawings can follow an operator's drafting standard through a configurable symbol library. They are checked against live 3D data as they are created and can be exported in DWG, DXF, SVG or PDF formats for use with existing CAD and document control systems.
ABYSS says the platform also places historical findings and anomalies from existing inspection reports in 3D, with inspection history, photos and NDE records attached. It can suggest adjacent lines for inclusion in the same inspection campaign, allowing work to be planned around the asset's physical layout.
Claims on coverage and availability
ABYSS says its platform can capture up to 85% of an asset in months, compared with an average 20% a year achieved by conventional inspection. The company also reports up to 60% savings in inspection and maintenance scoping, up to 70% lower human hazard exposure and up to 80% lower offshore POB requirements.
According to ABYSS, the platform is the system of record for asset condition at a major United States operator and has been deployed across that operator's entire offshore fleet. The company says customers have been identified with $1.2B of tangible platform de-risk value to date.
Digital Isometrics in ABYSS Fabric™ is available now to operators in offshore energy, refining, chemicals and civil infrastructure. ABYSS Fabric™ includes Pressure System Integrity Management, Coatings Management and Facilities Engineering Management, with Structural Integrity Management in development. Subsea and splash zone capture uses Lantern Eye, which ABYSS says is certified by the American Bureau of Shipping.
