System Requirements for Modules

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License Requirements

This feature is available in the APM application; no specific license is required.

Additional Components Required

Only the basic APM system architecture is required for this feature to work correctly. No additional components are required.

APM Connect System Requirements

For information on system requirements for APM Connect, refer to the APM Connect documentation.

APM Foundation System Requirements

License Requirements

This feature is available with the core APM application; no specific license is required.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

In the Cloud APM environment, query results do not include cases, alerts, or time series data, and global search results do not include alerts or time series data. All other standard APM product features for APM Foundation are available.

Asset Criticality Analysis (ACA) System Requirements

License Requirements

This feature is available in the APM application with the Meridium Core license; no specific license is required.

ACA integration with SAP is only available in on-premises releases.

To update your SAP system to reflect the criticality value that is determined in ACA, the licenses SAP Interfaces – Foundation and SAP Interfaces - Criticality Assessment are also required.

Note: For supported SAP releases, see the SAP System Requirements section in APM Connect System Requirements.

Additional Components Required

Only the basic APM system architecture is required for this feature to work correctly. No additional components are required.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

In the Cloud APM environment, SAP Integration for ACA is not supported. All other standard APM product features for this module are available.

Asset Health Manager (AHM) System Requirements

License Requirements

The Asset Health license and the licenses for the modules that you want to use with AHM are required to take advantage of AHM functionality.

Additional Components Required

Asset Health Manager can be used to its complete potential only when it is integrated with one or more of the following modules:

  • Rounds
  • Asset Strategy Management
  • Policy Designer
  • Metrics and Scorecards

Supported Features in Cloud APM

In the Cloud APM environment, Process Data Integration functionality is not supported, and, as a result, OPC Tag functionality is also not supported. In addition, Time Series functionality is not supported. All other standard APM product features for this module are available.

Asset Strategy Management (ASM) System Requirements

License Requirements

A limited version of the ASM module is available with the Meridium Core license. To experience ASM with full functionality, an Asset Strategy Management license is required.

Additional Components Required

Only the basic APM system architecture is required for this feature to work correctly. No additional components are required.

Note: For supported SAP releases, see the SAP System Requirements section in APM Connect System Requirements.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

Asset Strategy Optimization (ASO) System Requirements

License Requirements

The following licenses are required to take full advantage of ASO functionality:

  • Asset Strategy Management
  • Asset Strategy Optimization

Additional Components Required

In addition to the basic APM system architecture, your system must also contain the following additional components:

  • The Asset Strategy Management (ASM) module: ASO allows you to optimize Asset Strategies by running data simulations on existing Asset Strategies. Asset Strategies are created in ASM.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

Calibration Management System Requirements

License Requirements

The Calibration license is required to take advantage of the Calibration Management functionality.

Additional Components Required

If you use a documenting process calibrator or other calibration management software to perform automated calibration, then the machine that will connect to that calibrator must have the APM Devices service installed.

These devices may require additional drivers provided by the manufacturer.

The following documenting process calibrator devices are supported:

  • Fluke 74x Documenting Process Calibrator
  • Fluke 75x Documenting Process Calibrator
  • GE Druck Calibrators:

    • Druck DPI611 - Pressure Calibrator

    • Druck DPI612 - Flex Pressure Calibrator

    • Druck DPI620 - Multifunction Calibrator

    • Druck DPI620-IS - Intrinsically Safe Multifunction Calibrator

    • Druck DPI620G – Advanced Multifunction Calibrator, HART/Fieldbus Communicator

    • Druck DPI620G-IS - Intrinsically Safe Advanced Multifunction Calibrator, HART/Fieldbus Communicator

The following Calibration Management software is supported:

  • CMX Calibration Management Software Version 2 (2.10.114.0)

To establish communication with the CMX Calibration Management software, in addition to APM Device services, you must install the following software:

  • Beamex Business Bridge (B3) Version 1 (1.2.0)

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

Compliance Management System Requirements

License Requirements

The Compliance Management, Inspection Management, and Policy Designer licenses are required to take advantage of the Compliance Management functionality.

Additional Components Required

You must ensure that the following licenses are active:

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

eLog System Requirements

License Requirements

The eLog license is required to take advantage of the eLog functionality.

Additional Components Required

If you want to create GAA Primary Events from eLog, you must ensure that the license for Generation Availability Analysis (GAA) is active.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) System Requirements

License Requirements

The RCM license is required to take advantage of FMEA functionality.

Additional Components Required

Only the basic APM system architecture is required for this feature to work correctly. No additional components are required.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

Family Policy System Requirements

License Requirements

The Family Policy license is required to take full advantage of Family Policy functionality.

Note: The availability of certain features in Family Policy depends on the associated APM licenses. For example, you can access the Add Value to Health Indicator node only if the Asset Health license is active in APM. For more information on the licenses required for each node, refer to the family policy reference documentation.

Additional Components Required

Only the basic APM system architecture is required for this feature to work correctly. No additional components are required.

Generation Availability Analysis (GAA) System Requirements

License Requirements

The Generation Availability Analysis license is required to take advantage of the Generation Availability Analysis functionality.

Additional Components Required

In addition to the basic APM system architecture, your system must also contain the following additional components:

  • If you want to access and create a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) from GAA, you must ensure that the license for Root Cause Analysis is active.
  • If you want to access and create an eLog entry from GAA, you must ensure that the license for eLog is active.
  • If you want to access the Health Summary page for an asset, you must ensure that the license for Asset Health Manager is active and that you have the appropriate Security User permissions.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

Generation Availability Analysis Wind (GAA Wind) System Requirements

License Requirements

The GAA Wind license is required to take advantage of the GAA Wind functionality.

Additional Components Required

Only the basic APM system architecture is required for this feature to work correctly. No additional components are required.

Deploying GAA Wind

After you have installed and configured the basic system architecture, you will need to perform some configuration steps specifically for GAA Wind.

Hazards Analysis System Requirements

License Requirements

The Hazards Analysis license is required to take advantage of the Hazards Analysis functionality. This license is also required to use the integration between Hazards Analysis and Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA).

To use the integration between Hazards Analysis and SIS Management, the SIS Management license is also required.

Additional Components Required

Only the basic APM system architecture is required for this feature to work correctly. No additional components are required.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

Inspection Management System Requirements

License Requirements

The Inspection license is required to take advantage of Inspection Management functionality.

For organizations with sites located in Brazil, APM provides expanded inspection functionality to support the inspection requirements of NR-13. To take advantage of this functionality, the NR13 license is required.

Additional Components Required

Only the basic APM system architecture is required for this feature to work correctly. No additional components are required.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

In the Cloud APM environment, the following features are unavailable:

  • EAM Work Management Integration
  • Inspection Field Data Collection

All other standard APM product features for this module are available.

Life Cycle Cost Analysis System Requirements

License Requirements

The Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCC) license is required to take advantage of the Life Cycle Cost Analysis functionality.

Additional Components Required

If you want to:

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) System Requirements

License Requirements

The Hazards Analysis license is required to use the integration between LOPA and Hazards Analysis.

The SIS Management license is required to use the integration between LOPA and SIS Management.

Additional Components Required

Only the basic APM system architecture is required for this feature to work correctly. No additional components are required.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

Management of Change (MOC) System Requirements

License Requirements

The MOC license is required to take advantage of the Management of Change functionality.

Additional Components Required

Only the basic APM system architecture is required for this feature to work correctly. No additional components are required.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

Metrics and Scorecards System Requirements

License Requirements

The Metrics Manager license is required to use the Metrics and Scorecards module.

Additional Components Required

In addition to the basic APM system architecture, your system must also contain the following additional components:

  • A SQL Server Analysis Services Server machine that will host the Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services software. The following versions of SQL Server Analysis Services are supported in this version of APM:

    • Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2016

  • If you are using an Oracle database, to process the Work History cube, you must install ODP.NET (Oracle Data Provider.NET), an Oracle Data Access Component, on the machine where the Work History cube is deployed.

Supported Features in APM

In the APM environment, cube registration and modification features are unavailable. All other standard APM product features for this module are available.

Policy Designer System Requirements

License Requirements

The Policy Designer license is required to take full advantage of Policy Designer functionality.

This license is not required for the module workflow policies to operate; however, if you want to modify a module workflow policy, the Policy Designer license is required. You do not need the Policy Designer license to view module workflow policies for modules for which you have a license.

Note: The availability of certain features in Policy Designer depends on the associated APM licenses. For example, you can access the Add Value to Health Indicator node only if the Asset Health license is active in APM. For more information on the licenses required for each node, refer to the policy designer reference documentation.

Production Loss Analysis (PLA) System Requirements

License Requirements

The Production Loss Accounting license is required to take advantage of PLA functionality.

If you want to:

Supported Features in Cloud APM

In the Cloud APM environment, integration between PLA and Process Data Integration is unavailable. In addition, Time Series functionality is not supported. All other standard APM product features for this module are available.

RBI 581 System Requirements

License Requirements

The RBI 581 license is required to take advantage of RBI 581 functionality.

Note:

Because the RBI 581 and RBI modules share the same user interface, if you only have the RBI 581 license, various features normally available with the Risk Based Inspection license will be disabled. The following list indicates which features normally available with Risk Based Inspection are disabled.

If you only have the RBI 581 license:

  • An RBI 580 license is required to use RBI Criticality Analyses, RBI Pipeline Analyses, and RBI PRD Criticality Analyses.
  • On the Risk Based Inspection Overview page:
    • Generate Recommendations is disabled.
    • The Current Risk Overview and Past Risk Overview charts will plot the risk ranks for RBI 580 Criticality Analyses, RBI PRD Criticality Analyses, and RBI Pipeline Analyses.
    • The Current Risk and Past Risk widgets will list RBI 580 Criticality Analyses, RBI PRD Criticality Analyses, and RBI Pipeline Analyses.
  • In the Asset Summary workspace:
    • The Asset Summary and Asset Risk Reports are disabled.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

Recommendation Management System Requirements

License Requirements

The Meridium Core license is required to take advantage of the Recommendation Management functionality.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

In the Cloud APM environment, generating EAM Requests from recommendations is available only if you are using SAP as your EAM system. All other standard APM product features for this module are available.

Reference Documents System Requirements

License Requirements

This feature is available with the core APM application; no specific license is required.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

In the Cloud APM environment, external Reference Document access is unavailable. All other standard APM product features related to Reference Documents are available.

Risk Based Inspection (RBI) System Requirements

License Requirements

The Risk Based Inspection license is required to take advantage of RBI functionality.

Important: If you want to configure the RBI 580 calculations, the Policy Designer license is also required.
Note:
Because the RBI 581 and RBI modules share the same user interface, if you have only the Risk Based Inspection license, various features normally available with the RBI 581 license will be disabled. Specifically:
  • An RBI 581 license is required to use RBI 581 Risk Analyses.
  • The RBI 581 ISO Risk Plot feature is not available.
  • On the RBI Admin Preferences page, the RBI 581 Admin Options, RBI 581 ISO-Risk Plot Preferences, Inspection Auto-Selection, and RBI 581 Inventory Groups workspaces are not available.

Additional License

  • If you are planning to use Flexible RBI Methodology, the Policy Designer license is also required.
  • If you want to take advantage of the extended RBI functionality for pipelines, the Pipeline Management license is also required.

Additional Components Required

Only the basic APM system architecture is required for this feature to work correctly. No additional components are required.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) System Requirements

License Requirements

The PROACT license is required to take advantage of RCA functionality.

Additional Components Required

Only the basic APM system architecture is required for this feature to work correctly. No additional components are required.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

Rounds System Requirements

System Requirements

The Operator Rounds license and the Lubrication Management license are required to take advantage of the Rounds functionality (i.e., Rounds Designer and Rounds Data Collection modules).

Supported Features in Cloud APM

In the Cloud APM environment, offline login and collecting data offline using Rounds Data Collection are not fully supported. The standard APM product features for this module are available online in a browser.

Reliability Analytics System Requirements

License Requirements

The Reliability Manager license is required to take advantage of Reliability Analytics functionality.

Additional Components Required

Only the basic APM system architecture is required for this feature to work correctly. No additional components are required.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) System Requirements

License Requirements

The RCM license is required to take advantage of RCM functionality.

Additional Components Required

Only the basic APM system architecture is required for this feature to work correctly. No additional components are required.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.

Reports System Requirements

License Requirements

This feature is available with the core APM application; no specific license is required.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

In the Cloud APM environment, SSRS report creation and modification features are unavailable. All other standard APM product features for this module are available.

SIS Management System Requirements

License Requirements

The SIS Management license is required to take advantage of the SIS Management functionality. This license is also required to use the integration between SIS Management and Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA).

To use the integration between SIS Management and Hazards Analysis, the Hazards Analysis license is also required.

Additional Components Required

Only the basic APM system architecture is required for this feature to work correctly. No additional components are required.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment. However, the Mobile Proof Testing feature is available only on mobile devices with iOS platform.

Supported Safety Equipment Reliability Handbook (SERH) version in Cloud APM

Cloud APM supports SERH 2015.3.01.

Thickness Monitoring (TM) System Requirements

License Requirements

The Thickness Monitoring license is required to take advantage of TM functionality.

Additional Components Required

In addition to Thickness Monitoring, if you will use devices to collect data that you will transfer to APM, the machine that will connect to these devices must have the APM Device Service installed. The following devices are supported:

  • GE DMS Go
  • GE DMS Go+
  • GE DMS2
  • Olympus (Panametrics) 37DL Plus Ultrasonic Thickness Gage
  • Olympus (Panametrics) 38DL Plus Ultrasonic Thickness Gage

These devices may require additional drivers provided by the manufacturer.

Supported Features in Cloud APM

All standard APM product features for this module are available in the Cloud APM environment.