Wireline Magazine Autumn 2020 Issue 49

“Every keystroke that someone does on E-Sim is tracked. I can see exactly when an action is taken and it’s all evidence- based – that’s what a lot of organisations want to see now.”

“Until lockdown the majority of our work was servicing clients overseas, flying into a country and delivering a body of work. Predominantly we were very much focused on emergency response training, delivering it either at client facilities or through established training partners.” However, having been grounded in March (along with most of his clients) he set about developing a system that would allow Erisort to deliver the same outcomes as its existing Mobile Training Unit, but using an online, remote setting. He was, he says, sceptical about how thatmight be achieved: “For decadeswe’ve delivered the training in the same fashion, we’ve always had a physical simulator where we can watch someone perform. I was one of the people who wondered if in developing an online solution we’d still be able to maintain a level of realismand give people the opportunity to demonstrate their competencies.” The resulting solution - E-Sim – has put those fears to rest. This cloud-based suite allows anyone to login from anywhere in the world and interact in a way that reflects as closely as possible what they would do in a real situation. Created in partnership with Aberdeen-based developer Pisys, the simulator recreates an emergency command centre and includes all process, fire and gas detection systems, as well as a full information management system including telephones, radios and public-address. Even corporate email systems can be simulated to offer a more realistic record of the team’s decisions and responses to the scenario. Alongside the realistic interface, E-Sim also mimics the process controls that an OIM would have access to. Macleod adds: “[It] has full cause and effect built into it, so we can fail various valves, vessels, pipes, wells, whatever it might be. We can fail them open or shut,

Above right: Erisort Risk Management director Dougie Macleod manages an E-Sim session.

Left: 3t Energy Group's OTR (On The Rig) Simulator.

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