Multi Disciplinary Penetration and Hole Management

The Hole Management System is responsible for controlling and reporting all data associated with a ‘managed’ hole. It provides a common user interface and application for the following disciplines:

• Equipment

• Piping

• HVAC

• Cable

• Outfit Steel

• Room Design

The Hole Management System is wholly responsible for:

• Managing the communication of hole data between disciplines

• Data consistency checking on request providing relevant user feedback

• Allowing discipline communication of data for managed holes

• Generation of reports on managed holes.

Terminology used by the Hole Management System:

The following diagram shows an overview of the Hole Management workflow:

The Hole Management System is accessed by selecting Utilities > Hole Management and View > Hole Management in the Hull Design module from the main menu to display the Hole Management window.

The Hole Association Filter allows the user to search for Managed Holes and display the search results in the Hole Associations list. The filter criteria specify which Managed Holes will be selected and displayed in the list. Once in the Hole Associations list these holes can be inspected and modified.

Click the Show Tags checkbox to display labels in the 3D View around all the holes selected in the Hole Associations list.

To make it easier to see the penetrated items, click the Translucent Penetrated checkbox.

Clicking Manage Selected Holes displays the Hole Management window.

The Hole Management window consists of:

• A list of managed holes

• Data about the currently selected hole

• Validation Results of the currently selected hole

• History of the currently selected hole

• A comment on the current hole

• Originator and Reviewer Tasks

• A Return to Hole Associations link

Click the Show Tags checkbox to display labels in the 3D View around the selected holes.

Right clicking on a managed hole in the list displays a popup menu which allows the user to:

• Navigate to the primary element (the penetrating item) in the hierarchy

• Add the hole and associated items to the 3D view

• Remove the hole and associated items from the 3D view

• Centre the 3D view on the selected hole and zoom in to the hole

• Save/Unclaim performs a Savework and releases database claims on the selected hole data allowing other users to modify the same hole data immediately.

• Refresh List updates the list of holes according to the hole selection criteria.

• Export the grid data to Excel

• Open the Print Preview window

  Selected hole data

  Lists more information about the hole currently selected in the List of holes.

A right click popup menu on the hole data allows the user to:

• Navigate to the primary element (the penetrating item) in the hierarchy

• Add the hole and associated items to the 3D view

• Remove the hole and associated items from the 3D view

• Export the grid data to Excel

• Open the Print Preview window.

  Hole validation results

  Displays details of associativity checks

Each hole in the List of holes includes the results of the associativity check as either TRUE or FALSE in the VALID column. Further details of these associativity checks are available by displaying the Hole validation results fold up panel, which shows the Test carried out and the Result either PASS or FAIL.

A right click popup menu provides the facility to display more detailed information about validation failures, select Display Results.

The Information Message Panel window is populated with the detailed information about the validation failures.

A right click popup menu provides facilities for exporting to Excel or printing the displayed data.

Each hole in the List of holes displays the current status value on the Hole Management window but a history of changes to the status value during the lifetime of the hole data is also stored for reference. The full status history for each hole is displayed on the Hole History fold up panel.

A right click menu provides facilities for exporting to Excel or printing the displayed data.

The principal tasks within the Hole Management (HM) system relate to status management and these functions can be achieved by means of links under Originator Tasks and Reviewer Tasks. Only allowable tasks will be active. The tasks are as follows:

Originator Tasks

Reviewer Tasks

Changes to managed hole status values can only be undertaken according to a strict sequence of events as shown in the following table: