Record™ extends the boundaries of Internet and database technologies to deliver true web enabled metrology asset management.

In today's increasingly regulated world, the requirement to formally document the operation and maintenance of complex process plant systems demands no justification. It is of paramount importance that actions and events can be recorded as they occur and shared with others expeditiously. To meet these requirements METCO Services Ltd, working closely with Ambrit Ltd, has produced a web enabled logbook, Record™.

Electronic logbooks are not new, but most are simply digital copies of a paper version. Record™ is different, taking advantage of modern relational database technology and the power of the Internet to provide continuity of information across time and distance and ensure that key event data is available to all personnel who need to interact with plant and process.

Operating as a stand-alone logbook, Record™ combines state of the art record keeping with secure, remote interaction. When embedded into Acquire™, Record™ interacts with dynamic operational data, interlacing real time process events with normal day to day events to provide new levels of safety and performance. Record™ and Acquire™ are based on Ambrit's Webspring™ technology providing a proven dependable technical foundation with secure real time database interaction on Internet or Intranet networks.

Record™ creates an interactive environment where management, operations and technicians can collect and share key information regardless of location. Events and actions are recorded using automated templates and context specific prompts and menus to ease the record keeping process and avoid operator error. Recorded information is automatically date, time and process data stamped supported by comments and secure digital signatures. Secure audit stamps can be applied locally or remotely to reduce on-site audit time.

An equipment inventory provides a complete history of instrument calibration and maintenance chronologically interlaced with the process and events. Test equipment with calibration histories are also maintained within the plant records. In the Flow Measurement application, special routines are provided which cater for meter proving, control charts and performance curves. Equivalent special functions can be added for other types of process plant. All these features are supported by prompted inputs to maintain a consistent reporting methodology.

Sophisticated search tools enable detailed analysis of plant and process records. Reports can be exported automatically to other systems or emailed with attachments in most popular formats (Word®, Excel® etc.) to ensure key personnel are always kept up to date. For added data security a Record™ log book can be synchronised in real time with a copy held in a secure library at an off site location to providing a current, web-enabled, read-only back-up.

Record™ is configured using drag and drop editors requiring no custom software. Support can be extended through the Internet allowing Ambrit Ltd. to maintain the Record™ logbook environment remotely.