FE-Data Maintenance

Pipeline Data Maintenance

FE^™ Data Maintenance is a web-based pipeline data maintenance application. To manage through a desktop-based application, see DataFrame Data Maintenance.

Facility Explorer Data Maintenance allows authorized users the ability to edit pipeline location, pipe components, geographical features and analyses in a map-based environment. Powerful editing and approval workflows are combined with user roles that determine the tasks different users are authorized to perform. All changes to the pipeline data are available to the entire organization immediately and available to all applications via the use of the common data source. Changes to the pipeline system are stored, tracking historical states. Built in quality management tools ensure users can rely on the data for their analyses and reporting.

Integrated Pipeline Location and Feature Editing

Users can perform centerline editing, reroutes, stationing configuration, retirements, replacements and refinement using the map-based interface and pipe component lists. The changes, upon approval, are updated in the common database so they are immediately available to all users.

Pipeline Editing Workflows and Approvals

User levels determine the types of edits data managers can make and whether they have approval and publishing permissions. By enforcing these rigorous workflows, edits can be reviewed in context before being published to the wider user community. All edits, approvals and publishes are time- and user-stamped.

Intelligent Stationing Support

The system offers complete support for stationing systems including resolution of ambiguous as-built stationing; management of station equations and station series data; and dynamic updating of absolute (or continuous) stationing as edits occur.

Synchronized Status Updates

Changes to the pipeline status, whether for the whole segment or a sub-segment during a retirement or abandonment, are proliferated through appropriate pipeline components ensuring that their status accurately reflects that of the pipeline, keeping data up to date.

Assured Data Integrity

The primary reference system is stationing, with flexible input and output in a wide variety of other reference systems, including GPS coordinates, latitude/longitude and other geographical coordinates. This ensures that data can be easily entered but that it is preserved as part of a pipeline system and managed together.

Quality Control

Facility Explorer Data Maintenance makes it easy for your organization to continuously improve and refine its pipeline data assets. Provided tools fix gaps and overlaps in your data and always check to make sure the locations you enter are valid by finding, recording and fixing data problems so all applications that rely on the data can be assured of the most accurate data quality possible.

Administrator Approval Process

Facility Explorer Data Maintenance has additional checks and balances to assure the quality of your data. Edits are not published until they are approved by an administrator. Administration tools make it easy to review and approve data to be published to the production dataset as well as the detail behind edits that have occurred.

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