Concepts Tasks Settings Overview of Regulated Gas Management In APM, you can use Regulated Gas Management objects to manage industrial gases at your facilities. For example, you can record activities related to sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), a highly regulated gas in some jurisdictions. The following objects are associated with regulated gas management: • Gas types identify the gases being tracked • Gas containers are the different types of receptacles (cylinders, bottles, and so on) in which the gas is stored • Gas vendors that supply the gas, scales used to weigh containers, or both. You can link a vendor to a purchasing supplier • Gas transaction types define the kinds of activities (for example, initial fills), the information required for each transaction, when transactions can be created, and how transactions are processed • Gas transactions track activities related to a gas type, including receiving and returning containers, equipment fills, and loss to atmosphere events • Gas emergency events record leaks to atmosphere and the events that caused them (for example, earthquake, fire, flood), as well as the regulatory body to which leaks are reported Regulated Gas Management is a view on the Site and Asset windows. Gas Management Tasks Once APM functionality is configured to your organization’s standards for gas management, personnel (for example, supervisors and electricians) can perform the following tasks: • Add scales for weighing gas containers and calibrate the scales. See Scales and Calibration for Gas Management • Add gas containers. See Creating Gas Containers • Record gas transactions. See Creating Gas Transactions • Acknowledge indicator alarms. See Acknowledging Indicator Alarms and Warnings • Record emergency events. See Creating Gas Emergency Events For an overview of setup tasks, see Setting up APM for Regulated Gas Management. Indicator Readings and Alarms One of the features of gas tracking is its integration with inspection management. For example, a gas transaction can generate an alarm when there is a loss of gas from an asset. A supervisor reviews the alarm and determines if corrective work is required. The first step in enabling this functionality is to define an indicator template. When you enter a gas transaction, such as an in-service fill, APM uses the indicator template assigned to the gas type. If an indicator based on that template already exists for the transaction asset, APM enters a reading for the indicator. If an indicator does not exist, APM creates one, as well as the reading.
