Contents

Overview

Customising joints columns

Creating a draft joint

Creating a pack with selection of joints

Generate a joint tightening report

Generate joint tightening reports for multiple joints

Pipe codes

Printable tags

Generate a joint printable tag for multiple joints

Archiving Deleting and Restoring Joints

Overview

The Calculate platform offers extensive features to manage joints and related documentation efficiently. Users can customize the joints view by selecting or deselecting columns as needed.

Creating a new draft joint involves specifying the connection type, unique ID, and other details.

Packs can be created by selecting multiple joints and organizing them under a designated pack name and type. For reporting, users can generate Joint Tightening Reports (JTRs) for individual or multiple joints, downloadable in PDF or Excel format.

Pipe Codes enhance the calculation process by leveraging piping material specifications, significantly reducing the effort required to perform calculations while maintaining accuracy.

Additionally, customizable printable tags, which can include QR codes, streamline workflow processing. Users can generate these tags for individual or multiple joints, facilitating efficient project management and documentation

Customising Joints Columns

You can customise the joints view to show different columns depending on your requirements:

1. From the Calculate landing page, click the Joints icon.
2. Open the context menu button at the top of the page and select Create Customise Columns.
3. Select or deselected columns from the form as you require, click the Save View button to save your changes.

Creating a Draft Joint

To create a new draft joint:

1. From the Calculate landing page, click the Joints icon.
2. Open the context menu button at the top of the page and select Create New Joint.
3. In the Add Joint popup, select the connection type, , give the joint a unique ID and add any other identifying information. Once complete, click Create New.

Creating a Pack with Selection of Joints

You can create packs using a selection of joints:

1. From the Calculate landing page, click the Joints icon.
2. Select the joints you want to add to a pack.
3. From the table context menu, click the option Create New Pack with Selected Joints.
4. Enter a name for the pack and select a pack type from the dropdown list.
5. Enter access level 1 and 2 if required, and then populate any of the other fields you require for the pack.
6. Click the button Click & Add, this will create the new pack and add the selected joints into the pack.

Generate a Joint Tightening Report

To generate a joint tightening report for a joint:

1. From the Calculate landing page, click the Joints icon.
2. Find the joint you want to create a joint tightening report, from the row context menu hover over downloads and then select JTR.
3. Select if you require PDF or Excel, the report will be downloaded to your computer.

Generate Joint Tightening Reports for Multiple Joints

To generate joint tightening reports for multiple joints:

1. From the Calculate landing page, click the Joints icon.
2. Select the joints you want to create a joint tightening report, from the table context menu hover over downloads and then select JTR for Selected.
3. Select if you require PDF or Excel, the report will be downloaded to your computer as a Zip file.

Pipe Codes

The flexibility of the wide-ranging data in Calculate means that users can select from:

• 6 gasket styles comprising of 150+ materials
• 50+ lubricants
• 350+ flange materials
• 550+ bolt materials
• 200+ nut materials

While this range of data provides significant versatility, it can disadvantage users who require regular specific materials. Pipe Codes is an innovative approach to governing joint calculations based on connected data taken from your own piping material specifications to quickly create new joints.

Pipe Codes Benefits

Pipe Codes provides the following major benefits to both operators and service companies:

Efficiency

This feature offers vastly reduced timings to complete calculations without any sacrifice to calculation confidence. Currently, the Calculate PCC-1 engine requires the input and adjust twenty-two individual calculation variables in order to perform a calculation. Based on our review of piping material specification data, selections could be reduced to as low as a single selection (after choosing the Pipe Code). This represents a 95% reduction in effort to perform a calculation.

Simplified

Calculation variables that cannot be fully defined by a single, correlated, and automatic selection from the reference piping material specification are automatically filtered down to a lower number of remaining options.

Quality

Using a guided workflow that is connected directly to piping material specification data means that the risk associated with incorrect selections are reduced or mitigated.

Accuracy

No modification to the existing PCC-1 calculation methodology for bolt load determination and joint analysis has been made. Outputs are not impaired, reduced or generalised to suite Pipe Codes thus users and asset owners can expect the same high accuracy from calculations in the asset55 Calculate software.

Contact our support team at [email protected] for a demo or to discuss further Pipe Codes in Calculate.

Printable tags

Tags can be completely customised to suit your project workflow. The tag may include one or more QR codes for faster processing.

Generate a Joint Printable Tag

To generate a joint printable tag for a joint:

1. From the Calculate landing page, click the Joints icon.
2. Find the joint you want to create a printable tag, from the row context menu hover over downloads and then select Printable Tag.
3. The report will be downloaded to your computer.

Generate a Joint Printable Tag for Multiple Joints

To generate printable tags for multiple joints:

1. From the Calculate landing page, click the Joints icon.
2. Select the joints you want to create printable tag, from the table context menu hover over downloads and then select Printable Tag.
3. The report will be downloaded to your computer as a Zip file.

Archiving Deleting and Restoring Joints

The joint archive function can be used for deleting or removing a joint from the current joint list.

An archived joint will not show in the joint search and cannot be added to a pack, but it can be restored or deleted. If a joint is archived, a new joint with the same tag id cannot be created in the same hierarchy unless the archived joint is deleted.

The requirement for joints to be archived before deletion is a safeguard against accidently deleting joints, especially when they are part of a pack workflow.

When attempting to archive a joint, a message as displayed in the below image could be received. If a joint has been added to a pack or multipacks, it can only be archived if in all the packs the Joint Status is set to Cancelled or the Joint Status marks completion as shown in the below table.

For guidance on how to change the Joint Status, please see the packs article.

Archiving a Joint

To archive a joint:

1. From the Calculate landing page, click the Joints icon.
2. Locate the joint you wish to archive, click the menu button, and select Archive Joint.
3. In the popup, confirm archive of joint by selecting Archive.

Restore or Delete Joints

To restore or delete joints:

1. From the Calculate landing page, click the Joints icon.
2. From the Joints screen click on the menu button in the top right hand corner, and select Show Archived Joints.
3. Locate the joint you wish to restore or delete, click the menu button, and select Restore Archived Joint or Delete Joint.
4. Depending on the required action, in the popup, confirm restoration or deletion of the joint by selecting Restore Archived Joint or Delete Joint.
5. From the Joints screen click on the menu button in the top right hand corner, select Hide Archived Joints.