Assets in ARDI

As part of consolidating your data, ARDI also organises it.

To organise your information in a way that is human readable and easy to navigate, we combine all of the information related to any one thing together into what we call an asset.

One important thing to know is that ARDI assets aren’t always physical pieces of equipment. As well as your hardware, you can also make assets for…

• Systems and Sub-Systems
• Buildings and Plant Areas
• Departments and Cost Centres
• Product Types
• Walkways & Intersections
• Crews, Shifts and Groups
• Human Resources

If it’s something you’d like to talk about, visualise, analyse or report on, it can be an asset in ARDI.

Each asset in ARDI can have any number of properties and alerts, which provide information about the asset.

This can be static information, such as model or serial number.

This can be taken from an external source, such as getting the latest test details from your maintenance system or upcoming jobs from your work order system.

And this can also be high-resolution time-series information, such as temperature, pressure etc.

A single asset may have properties sourced from several different knowledge management systems at once – the serial number from your maintenance system, the temperature from your IoT service & historian, and the location from a cloud-based GPS tracking system.

Assets also have media, which can include any type of multimedia document, including PDF files, videos, audio recordings and forms.

This media can be stored in ARDI, or we can connect to a variety of external systems to pull the documents out of maintenance systems, document management systems or – for those who haven’t found a permanent home for their media yet – we can simply fetch it from a shared document folder on-site or in the cloud.

This allows ARDI to distribute useful documents, such as…

• Work Instructions
• Specifications and Manuals
• Safety Data Sheets
• Calibration Sheets
• Compliance and Regulatory Documents

Along with our field-focused clients, this allows the latest copy of important documents to be easily delivered to people, where they need them.

Information about where an asset is and what it looks like is often very poorly recorded on site.

ARDI has a range of options to help better capture this information, and tools that help pass this information on to others – such as our 2D maps, our 3D environments and our interactive photographs.

By organising your information effectively, you can make a system that provides valuable information to everyone – from engineer to analyst, from the field to the meeting-room, and from your longest-serving people to your newest hires.

Another piece of asset information that is often missing are the connections your assets have with eachother.

Understanding these connections isn’t just important for people who are working with your equipment – they have a range of valuable benefits that you can use in reporting, investigation and analytics.

In ARDI, we call these connections relationships, and they set us apart from many other asset information systems in the market.