assetDNA™Identifying assets uniquely in situ is the key to sound asset management. Extending the value of this identification beyond traditional “auto ID” is Relegen’s unique capability.
Through its tagging system known as assetDNA™, Relegen offers a superior solution, unmatched by competitors, to significantly enhance the value of tagging and link assets to the information and processes required to support them.
When used in conjunction with baseLINE or other asset management systems, assetDNA™ allows you to track every component of every part of every major operational asset. Considering assets at this level of fine detail allows organisations to attribute risks and costs more accurately, whilst significantly improving an asset’s performance and capability.
Relegen provides a range of tagging applications including barcoding, RFID and microdot technology, suitable for assets that range from documentation to equipment and machinery parts. Tags can be read using commercial, off-the-shelf hardware, and there is an appropriate and cost-effective solution for your particular environment.
Relegen has a range of assetDNA™ tags designed specifically for an engineering environment that are easy to read, particularly rugged and inexpensive.
assetDNA™ tags have a read/write capability that allows asset managers to develop and assign a workflow to a particular part or asset. This workflow can then be written to a tag attached to the asset and used to progress that asset through the workflow – providing a mechanism to close the loop on change and maintenance whilst ensuring consistency and repeatability for tasks.
Relegen and its partners in advanced technology have equipped assetDNA™ tags with three major capabilities.
Asset serialisation: This assigns a unique ID to an asset. When used in conjunction with baseLINE, all numbers on all tags become unique and can conform to GS1 number formatting standards such as the global electronic product code (EPC). baseLINE maintains an up-to-date register of all the assets tagged in a particular domain and enables users to register these numbers globally so they cannot be allocated to other assets elsewhere.
Once registered, baseLINE users can form asset communities to share asset attribute data externally across industries if desired. Sharing of asset data lets asset owners and users learn from each other, make smarter purchasing and maintenance decisions, and introduce efficiencies.
Asset security: In conjunction with microdot technology, assetDNA™ offers state-of-the-art identification and anti-theft security. Microdot technology has extremely high resistance to fraud and can be used to ascertain ownership of assets with generic appearances. Relegen’s partner in this type of asset tagging is the world-leading DataDot Technology.
Asset security can also be assured by using assetDNA™ RFID tags and linking them with geospatial information. Assets can be checked in and out of locations or assigned to custodians. Their physical location can be identified and the history of their movement recorded.
Asset workflow association: This is another unique feature that enables workflows relevant to a particular asset to be held with the asset in its operational environment. An almost infinite number of workflows and business processes can be stored on an assetDNA™ tag, making the system indispensable to any department conducting physical audits, such as finance, maintenance, or quality management.
Storing workflows and business processes on the asset allows assets to be interrogated infield for their transactional history while forging a stronger link between the asset, its actual state, and what the database indicates.
Being able to store workflows and business processes on the actual asset is the next generation of tagging – providing certainty, reliability and efficiency.
Through workflows and project plans, asset managers can share an asset’s responsibilities with other users. This powerful feature ensures seamless collaboration between departments and external organisations, and timely movement of an asset through a process.
A practical example of this might be where a gauge is removed and sent to an external organisation for testing. The gauge is therefore involved in a maintenance workflow (testing) and a configuration change (the new test parameter). Since these two workflows can be stored on the assetDNA™ tag as the gauge is tested, it can be scanned by the certification body using a handheld PDA.
The certifier, having access to the appropriate fields in the database, is able to update the status to “tested”, and this information automatically flows to the maintenance database when the PDA is docked.
Once the certifier updates the new test parameters they populate the appropriate fields in the Configuration Management Tool, the test certificate links to the asset, and this flows back to the end user as a PDF. The whole process is seamless, accurate and cost-effective.
