“Could you tell me which are the most important commercial CMS / CCMS in the industry?” – Alexander from Columbia asked me.

Please find the answer to this question here on the commissioning blog below or listen to my commissioning podcast.

What is a CMS or CCMS?

A CMS (commissioning management system) or CCMS (completions and commissioning management system) is often used on upstream and downstream installations because of the large quantity of activities and data involved in the commissioning process.

The advantage of a CCMS is having all information digitally available 24/7, which means showing the exact point at which a project stage is. This means up-to-date information is available to all authorized parties at all times.

Another advantage is that standardized software packages lead to conformance to standards and specifications.

So, let me show you a few of the most important CCMS:

Intergraph Smart Completions by HEXAGON

GoCompletions by qedi

FNVi by FNVi

TrackerDB by Tracker Technologies

ICAPS by TOTAL
COMSIP, expert in OPERCOM methodology and in commissioning tracking software ICAPS, offers training regularly.

ORBIT by Orion Completions and Commissioning Management Services

ConstructSim Systems Completion by Bentley Systems

PCMS PRO by PCMS PRO

Pims Completion Management by Omega AS

VM Completions by MODS Management ltd.

WinPCS by Complan

CX Manager by Thomas T. Jarløv (Update February 05, 2019)

Zenator by Falcon Global (Update February 05, 2019)

Did I forget to mention an important CCMS?

Please add a comment below or send me a message.

If you are the provider of a CCMS solution and if you want to do an interview with me then just send me a message through the contact form on my website. 

Talk soon,

Thomas Stuenkel

PS: Don’t forget to subscribe to my commissioning podcast “CommissioningCoach.com on Air”.

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A few weeks ago I got a question from a gentlemen regarding “virtual commissioning”. He asked me “Thomas, in what way and how would you think that virtual commissioning could save time in the real commissioning process knowing of course that virtually the physical work cannot be completely be substituted?”

This is a good question.

So what is “virtual commissioning” at all?

Please click the play button below and listen to the audio (3 min 38 sec).

It would be great if you could share your thoughts on this topic of virtual commissioning here on my blog or in the comments on Soundcloud.

Thank you very much & talk soon,

Thomas Stuenkel

Update January 29, 2019

The commissioning podcast “CommissioningCoach.com on Air” is now available on Spotify, iTunes and Google Play Music.

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CPS2018 taking place in Houston, November 29th, 2018 – aims to share knowledge, innovation and best practice to boost productivity in the Commissioning and Startup Arena.

The event boasts a program packed with key topics delivered by top Industry speakers representing Operators, EPC’s and Major Contractors from a variety of industrial sectors.

The Westin Hotel, Memorial, Houston – The obvious choice

The Energy Corridor was an easy choice for the Symposium, given the cities cutting edge, energy ecosystem and global commissioning influence in the energy sector.

Global reach for the international commissioning community

In addition to Houston, the event is being streamed online for delegates around the world, available ‘on demand’ to your phone, tablet or computer.

CPS2018 – Sounds like your type of a commissioning event?

Head over to www.cps2018.co to secure your tickets, make it snappy, though – they are selling fast! Only a few early bird savers left!!

We are excited to announce the final Speaker line up soon, so follow our progress at www.cps2018.co.

CPS2018 – Be part of the future of commissioning

Finish the year strong and set the tone for 2019 by taking away the latest cutting edge Commissioning strategies, technology and innovation from the best in the Commissioning industry.

1 Day – 6 Commissioning Key Presentations – 4 Commissioning Case Studies – 8 Panelists – 1 Commissioning Key Note – A lifetime of value

For more information contact:
Martyn Canham
martyn@rev1og.com

www.cps2018.co

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Note: This is a guest post by Martyn Canham, President of Rev1 Oil & Gas and host of the commissioning podcast Commissioning Team Talk

Thank you, Thomas, for allowing me to share my story with your blog readers.

Hi everyone, my name is Martyn Canham and I have been in various positions in the systems completion and commissioning field for the last 20 years.

This month I launched something I’m very excited about. It’s called Commissioning Team Talk and I wanted to share it with you today.

As I travel around, I’m constantly connecting with inspiring individuals at all levels who have not only made a success of their own careers, but have made a huge difference in the ways companies and projects work. I love hearing their stories about how they started from humble beginnings and have found a way to make the value chain, from design through construction to commissioning, easier, more effective and efficient.

My aim with Commissioning Team talk is to share these stories to a much broader audience with an audio experience, so that we can all benefit and learn from their experiences, good and bad. In this dynamic and forever changing business world in which we live and work, we need to constantly find better ways do our work smarter and more cost effective to be competitive and quite frankly, to remain in business.

For that reason, I’ve created the commissioning podcast Commissioning Team Talk, where every two weeks I shall be interviewing an inspiring person with a story, best practice or something of value to share with our listeners from the Commissioning community.

Thomas’s interview at the commissioning podcast was No. 002 in the initial series, so I would encourage everybody to listen to that episode and hear from the man himself about his background and how his Commissioning Training Platform is making a huge difference in how we train as Commissioning professionals in the future.

So, I do hope you subscribe on iTunes and enjoy the commissioning podcast, the link can be found below. You can easily listen to Commissioning Team Talk during your commute to work or maybe on the treadmill. If you like the concept, please get involved, share with other people in our discipline. Please rate and write a comment on iTunes or send me an email with your comments and maybe thoughts of a good future featured guest or hot topic you want to know more about.

Let’s unite the global community of Commissioning professionals and grow stronger as a collective.

I hope to meet you in person someday and hear your story.

Until then, best wishes and enjoy the podcast,

Martyn

PS:
Subscribe to the Podcast here
Email me here: Martyn@rev1og.com
See me on Linkedin here

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A few days ago Bart from Canada asked me: “Thomas, what are the recommended commissioning books?”

So instead of just reply to Bart I sat down and created this blog post about the recommended commissioning books.

When you search online for commissioning books you will notice three things:

1. There are not so many plant commissioning books available.
2. The majority of the commissioning books have been published a few years ago.
3. Not all commissioning books are available in electronic format (e.g. in Kindle format at Amazon).

So I came up with the top three recommended commissioning books available today.

Top Three Recommended Commissioning Books

	Amazon.com – Hardcover Amazon.com – Kindle Version Amazon.co.uk – Hardcover Amazon.co.uk – Kindle Version
	Amazon.com – Paperback Amazon.co.uk – Paperback
	Amazon.com – Hardcover Amazon.com – Kindle Version Amazon.co.uk – Hardcover Amazon.co.uk – Kindle Version

Can you recommend very good commissioning books from your own experience?

If so, please share it in the comments section below.

Thank you very much!

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Forgotten Philadelphia | The Philadelphia Electric Company from Chris DeAntonio on Vimeo.

This is a great short areal video about an old power plant by The Philadelphia Electric Company.

Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning & Start-Up have been done decades ago …

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An Australian mining company operates the longest truck in the world. 205 tons & 160 foot.

Check out this giant trucks visiting the remote mines and farms in Australia.

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Building the World’s Largest Ship (in 76 seconds) from Maersk Line on Vimeo.

This is a timelapse of the construction of Maersk Line’s very first Triple-E vessel at the DSME shipyard in Okpo, Korea.

The timelapse has been produced by Discovery Channel and Maersk. It consists of 50,000 photos taken over 3 months.

You can read more about Maersk Line’s Triple-E vessels here: WorldsLargestShip.com

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Choose now the next topics for our online safety commissioning training!

I started to cooperate with a medical safety instructor. In the coming months we want to produce new safety training lessons in regards to commissioning.

You can help us to develop these commissioning safety training lessons by answering the following question:

What is the SAFETY topic you are interested in the most?

Please share your ideas below in the comments section.

And don’t forget to watch this short video – it’s just 55 seconds.

You can watch the same video about saftey and commissioning on YouTube as well.

Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.

Talk soon,

Thomas Stuenkel

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What is Commissioning? And related terms?

What is Commissioning, Pre-Commissioning, P&ID Checking, Mechanical Completion, Start-Up, Initial Operation, Performance Testing, Post Commissioning, Cold Commissioning, Hot Commissioning, Dry Commissioning, Wet Commissioning, Live Commissioning, …?

A lot of different technical terms. Do you know what they mean? No? Or just a few? Ok, read on.

I prepared a mind map (you know, the format which makes it easier for you to remember things) with all these commissioning related terms. You can download the mind map “What is Commissioning?” below after unlocking the download link by liking it on Facebook, Google+ or sharing it on LinkedIn.

But for now – just grab a cup of coffee or tea, switch off your mobile phone and watch the commissioning training video below with an explanation about “What is Commissioning?” and all of the above mentioned commissioning related terms.

FREE TRAINING!Enroll now on CommissioningTrainingCenter.com

If you like you can watch the same commissioning training video on YouTube as well.

Do you want to download this commissioning training video including the mindmap? Just enroll for free into this course (and as well free into my commissioning training course “The 9 Key Elements of Successful Plant Commissioning”) on CommissioningTrainingCenter.com now. Just click here.

Download the “What is Commissioning?” mind map PDF for FREE now

Do you have questions?

Your comments, thoughts and questions about the short commissioning training video are appreciated in the comments section below!

Talk soon,

Thomas Stuenkel

PS: Did you miss a commissioning term in this mind map? Do you use other terms to describe certain commissioning activities?  In which industry do you work? Oil & gas, power, renewable energy, petrochemical, chemical, nuclear, mining, water, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology …? It would be great if you can share this in the comments section below.

Video Transcript “What is Commissioning?”

What is commissioning? What is cold commissioning, what is hot commissioning, dry commissioning, wet commissioning, static commissioning, life commissioning? We will answer these questions and a few more in about 30 seconds.

Hello everybody. My name is Thomas Stuenkel. I’m the founder of CommissioningCoach.com, a commissioning engineer, commissioning manager and commissioning coach. I have prepared a mind map for you on my computer. It’s an explanation of these commissioning related terms. Let’s start with the presentation.

What is commissioning and an explanation of related terms. But before I start, here is an important note. The intention of this document is to bring a little bit of light into different terms used worldwide by different companies. Something like, to find a common denominator. Maybe your company understands for example, wet commissioning completely different than your friend’s company or what I’m explaining here. This is okay. Just use the documents and terms used by your company.

Before we come to the explanation of commissioning , I want to explain other related terms in the logical sequence. The first field activity for a commissioning engineer or commissioning manager is the P&ID checking. This means, a system check for engineering and construction errors after handing over a system or sub-system from construction team to the commissioning team or we can say, this is the system check. This is another synonym for P&ID checking or we can say, walk down … another synonym or we can say punching and a punch list is created during this P&ID checking or walk down or system check or punching.

Mechanical completion. This means checking and testing of equipment and construction to confirm that the installation is in accordance with drawings and specifications and ready for pre-commissioning or commissioning in a safe manner and in compliance with project requirements. The “or” is in capitals and bold because mechanical completion can mean ready for pre-commissioning or commissioning and this depends only from the definitions in the contract – but this is another training lesson.

Pre-Commissioning. Pre-Commissioning activities usually start after the system achieved mechanical completion. Pre-Commissioning activities include, flushing and cleaning, drying, leak testing, running-in of equipment and something more. Sometimes pre-commissioning activities are included into mechanical completion but this depends again on the contract definitions. In our API 1 FSC, the term pre-commissioning is there named with static commissioning.

Now we are coming to the term cold commissioning. Cold commissioning consists of two different other terms again. This is dry commissioning and wet commissioning. Dry commissioning – These are tests and procedures that are conducted without solvents or process fluids yet introduced to the plant. For example, control system sequence tests. Wet commissioning, it means water or a solvent has been introduced into the system and sub-systems. Tests and procedures conducted with water or solvents. A solvent is a medium which is not as dangerous as the process fluid but the other specifications are closed to the process fluid and what we are doing there is operating scenarios. For example we are running pumps in closed loops.

Hot commissioning. This means, design process fluids are introduced in the systems and sub-systems and again we are doing here operating scenarios.

Live commissioning. This is the synonym for hot commissioning.

Now we are coming to the term commissioning. The common term commissioning. What does it mean? Commissioning is usually the phase in a project when design process fluids are introduced to the systems and sub-systems. Sometimes commissioning means running the systems with a safe fluid only.

Next step after commissioning is our PSSR, Pre-Start-up Safety Review and we are doing this together with the client, the contractor, sometimes the PMC and the licensor.

Next step is the start-up. The phase in the project where the entire plant – all systems and sub-systems – are taken into operation. Process fluids are introduced and process conditions are established with the intent of making products.

Initial operation. This is the phase in a project after the start-up of the complete plant in order to adjust, tweak, optimize and prepare the plant for the performance testing phase which is the next step.

Performance testing. Check if the plant meets the specifications under normal operating conditions.

The term “post commissioning” means solving of outstanding punch points after the plant has been handed over to the client.

At the end of the life cycle of a plant, de-commissioning. De-commissioning means taking out of active use and dismantling of an industrial plant.

Great. You watched the entire video. Now, just click the red button below this video and enroll into the free online commissioning training session “What is Commissioning?”.

Thank you very much for watching. Have a great day. Bye bye.

Thomas Stuenkel.

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