IC-Inspection

• Active Events
• Active Inspection
• Anomaly Triggers
• Assets
• Asset Information
• Devices
• Drawings
• Event Launcher
• Event Listing
• Event Templates
• Compass Heading
• Library
• Survey Values
• Tasks

IC-Inspection is an on-line Eventing software application optimised for use in the off-shore environment. IC-Inspection is built around a Microsoft SQL Server relational database with events (items of inspection) referenced to positional data and assets. IC-Inspection can be configured to interface with:

• Survey systems, showing time, date, and ROV position;
• ROV video inputs, enabling image and video sequence references to events;
• Digital video recorders;
• Instruments such as CP Probes, FMD, providing automatic data input of results;
• Other digital input devices, through customisation of the software to suit the input string.

The IC-Inspection package is teamed with IC-Recorder to provide a digital recording package for real-time based online eventing. Multi-camera, sonar and profiling data can be recorded digitally with positional data displayed by IC-Recorder. NEXUS Integrity Centre (NEXUS IC) is used to configure the database, event definitions and other relationships used within IC-Inspection.

The IC-Inspection 6 “desktop” works in the same way as NEXUS IC’s Inspection screen: you can use the View button to drop down a menu which lets you control what panels are visible, and you can drag panels around and “dock” them at any edge of an existing panel, on top of an existing panel (in which case they become part of a tabbed group of panels), or you can drop them outside the IC-Inspection window to make them into “floating” windows. You can close panels with the at their top right corner, or click on to “unpin” panels so that they collapse to an edge of the IC-Inspection window. To recover an unpinned panel, click on the panel’s name at the edge of the IC-inspection window, then click on the icon.

You can save and switch desktops: click the Add a new desktop with the current layout button to create an entry in the list of desktops and save your current arrangement of panels into it; or click Save the active desktop to save your current settings. Settings are not automatically saved when you close IC-Inspection – this is so that if you get into a state you don’t know how to get out of, you can simply close and re-open. You can also choose a different desktop from the Desktops menu to switch to it, and Delete the currently active desktop to delete it.

To learn how the grids and toolbar buttons presented in many of IC-Inspection’s panels work, see Common Features.

A basic strategy for using IC-Inspection would be:

• Configure a NEXUS IC database, including Assets, Event Types, and optionally Tasks and Drawings.
• Configure IC-Inspection, including desktops, Devices, Survey Values and optionally Event Templates.
• Configure digital video recorders, whether IC-Recorder or a third-party recorder.
• Use the Tasks list or the drawings to drive the inspection, completing tasks until none remain.
• Launch ad-hoc events as required.
• For each event form, fill in the form, optionally attaching still images captured from digital video recorders.