AsInt Enhances SAP APM For Industrial Firms With Its Asset Intelligence Integrity Suite

AsInt Enhances SAP APM For Industrial Firms With Its Asset Intelligence Integrity Suite

As industrial firms face mounting pressures to enhance safety, cut costs and extend the lifespan of critical assets, mechanical integrity software specialist AsInt, Inc. has formed a strategic partnership with SAP to revolutionize asset integrity management. Founded in 2017, AsInt delivers APM and asset integrity applications, as well as comprehensive strategy and data services seamlessly integrated into the SAP cloud platform.

AsInt’s applications, powered by its proprietary risk adaptive model, help SAP APM users to perform risk-based inspections (RBI), integrity operating window assessments, corrosion management and compliance assurance. The solution offers out-of-the-box RBI methodologies, such as API 581, the European Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) and Brazilian integrity regulation NR13. Offering its proprietary semi-quantitative methodology, RBI+, AsInt enhances API 581 with an adaptive framework that considers dynamic asset conditions, operational priorities and compliance requirements. The resulting flexible consequence model allows operators to prioritize inspection plans based on asset criticality, risk levels and compliance needs, while also adapting to operational variability and nuanced risk profiles.

To further enhance efficiency, AsInt has developed a mobile app that enables field workers to perform real-time inspections and engineering calculations, such as corrosion rate analysis and remaining useful life estimates. The mobile app also streamlines inspection processes by enabling users to create and manage inspections, upload attachments, track condition monitoring location (CML) readings, and receive real-time notifications for efficient task management and improved communication. The result? Significant savings in time and resources without compromising safety or reliability.

With 53% of firms in the 2024 Verdantix industrial transformation survey indicating plans to increase spending on initiatives that enhance asset integrity in 2025, AsInt’s applications are well-positioned to improve an asset’s operational life expectancy, increase the return on capital investment, reduce risk and costs, enhance safety, and boost performance. Thanks, in part, to its partnership with AsInt, SAP earned top scores in the Verdantix APM Green Quadrant assessment for its ability to evaluate the likelihood and consequences of failure, enabling optimized inspection rigour based on overall risk.

Looking ahead in the market, 63% of industrial executives plan to increase spending on safety-focused initiatives in the next 12 months. As such, Verdantix has witnessed senior decision-makers looking to use APM solutions to create a ‘data digital twin’ that combines real-time asset condition data with process and worker safety information. This integration enables better planning of operator rounds while assessing risks associated with compromised assets and simultaneous operations (SIMOPS). To address increasing safety demands, AsInt plans to introduce new capabilities in the coming months, enabling firms to perform barrier management, root cause analysis, hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies, layers of protection analysis (LOPA) and safety instrumented function (SIF) assessments. Additionally, the firm also plans to deploy machine learning and AI models to analyse critical data sets, provide real-time safety and compliance insights, and evaluate inspection photos to ensure high-quality documentation. This will enhance the accuracy and reliability of field data, make it easier to understand performance trends and ultimately streamline decision-making.

The APM software market is forecast to increase from $3 billion in 2024 to $8.9 billion in 2030 due to ongoing pressures to cut costs and improve asset uptime and integrity. Against this backdrop, AsInt’s partnership with SAP – alongside strategies to develop safety workflows and AI-driven insights – will cement its ability to support present and future integrity challenges.

For more information on asset integrity, APM solutions and AsInt, please read Verdantix Green Quadrant: Asset Performance Management Solutions 2024 and keep an eye out for the upcoming Smart Innovators: Asset Integrity and Risk Management Software report, which will provide a benchmark of the capabilities of key vendors in this space.