Inspection and maintenance software provider Falcker and global tank storage company Vopak have signed an agreement for worldwide distribution of Falcker’s advanced tank inspection platform.
Developed in collaboration with Vopak, the platform comprises a site explorer, condition monitoring and a life cycle planner.
Falcker said its integrated platform uses cloud-based technologies, digital twinning and automated inspection tools to enable predictive maintenance and extend asset lifecycles for industrial operators worldwide.
Scheduled to be deployed at Vopak’s terminals over the next few years, the platform would allow Vopak to optimise its maintenance programme by providing long-term predictions based on tank maintenance, Falcker said on 8 October.
“Together with Vopak, we will … help ensure safety, compliance and sustainability,” said Falcker CEO Thomas Schouten.
Falcker’s site explorer feature links direct users to specific on-site locations or external systems like maintenance management systems, streamlining information access and sharing.
By centralising visual and technical asset data online, all stakeholders – internal and external – gain a complete, remote-accessible overview of the facility.
The condition monitoring feature provides 3D digital twinning, time-based and risk-based inspections and automated drone flights for visual, geometrical and gas emission inspections.
Falcker said its lifecycle planner helped schedule maintenance, plan inspections and address ageing infrastructure.
According to its website, Falcker’s services for the tank storage industry include drone-based automated inspection, data acquisition services and inspection data management software solutions.
Headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Royal Vopak is a leading independent tank storage company stores and handles a range of products including biofuels, vegetable oils, chemicals, gases and crude oil.
