12 BULKDISTRIBUTOR Asset Management
May/June 2020
Anova keeping track
of oxygen tanks
Essential workers from Anova install
DataOnline monitoring devices at
local nursing home in New Jersey
Anova’s DOLv3 is being used to monitor increased
consumption of hospital medical oxygen and helium
during the pandemic to ensure no run-outs.
Now more than ever, customers are seeking
end-to-end solutions that not only provide
reliable remote monitoring for critical care
needs, like medical oxygen and helium, but
also give them real-time updates on the
health and status of their tanks; anywhere
in the world.
Anova is continuing to produce connected
Customers have turned to Asset Viewer to set up
notifications and alarms for all tanks in the field
Using Anova’s DOLv3 customers get access to better analytics,
greater efficiency and smarter maintenance
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KEEP TRACK OF
YOUR ASSETS
A STRATEGIC TREND-SETTING PARTNERSHIP
TANKMILES HEATING SYSTEM
telemetry devices to help its customers during COVID-19. Its
operations and customer support teams are prioritising support
around the globe to meet critical care demands. Using Anova’s
industrial gases web-based online management system, DOLv3,
customers get access to better analytics, greater efficiency and
smarter maintenance – from the comfort of their home office, or
even their couch.
With essential workers on the front line, delivering these assets and
providing imperative maintenance to tanks, customers have turned
to Asset Viewer to set up notifications and alarms for all tanks in the
field so they can be more efficient with their routes, decreasing
unnecessary exposure and removing the need for customer
interactions.
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New DGs demo prototype
Exis Technologies has recently entered into a collaborative
agreement with Maritime Blockchain Labs (MBL) to
explore the use of blockchain in tackling the risks and
challenges of the declaration and handling of dangerous
goods (DGs).
Exis will be using its industry experience to help MBL, a consortium
founded by BLOC and the Lloyd’s Register Foundation (LRF), with the
build and test of a demo prototype to assess the potential for
distributed ledger technology (DLT) in the maritime supply chain.
According to the Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS), nearly
25 percent of all serious incidents on-board containerships were
attributable to misdeclared cargo. ICHCA International, the cargo
handling operator’s association, has calculated that of the 60 million
packed containers moved each year, 10 percent are declared as
dangerous goods with some ships carrying more than 1,000
containers with DGs on any given voyage.
Shipping lines are therefore keen to ensure that DGs are properly
classified, packaged, packed and declared throughout the supply
chain. Most of the significant ship fires are attributed to incorrectly
declared DGs, often exacerbated by criminal non-declaration or
fraud.
Exis, the software division of container inspection company
National Cargo Bureau based in New York, is at the forefront of
developing new initiatives with industry partners to reduce incidents
at sea caused by mis- or undeclared DGs. Exis already supplies
Hazcheck Systems to manage declared DGs for IMDG Code
compliance to nine of the top 10 container lines, including a web
service and a toolkit to integrate with existing container line booking
systems.
In recent years, Exis has developed new solutions with partners
including a portal for sharing operator, vessel and port restrictions
among ports and operators; a web-based database and access portal
for inspection companies to plan and enter details of cargo
inspections; and a cargo screening service.
Katrina Abhold, project manager at BLOC and co-ordinator of MBL,
commented, “The experience Exis has in dangerous goods shipping
and its solutions like Hazcheck Systems will be a great addition to our
consortium. It will be interesting to find out how such combined
technologies can be applied in a new way to help address this
ongoing issue in the shipping sector.”
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