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Dynamic Recording & Inspection Platform (DRIP�)

Quality Control is a fundamental component in achieving product integrity. American Petroleum Institute Standards coupled with internal company processes & procedures layout the groundwork necessary in executing timely, effective, and efficient inspections and repairs of the manufactured product.

Merlin Concepts & Technologys� DRIP application and hardware systems work together to validate and control each step in the quality process. Automated Data-Capture Choke-Points, Industrial Touch-Screen Feedback Stations, and Digital Signature Validation Systems enable customers with the ability to capture product identification upon entry into a particular quality control station, dynamically configure inspection machinery, digitally confirm and record inspection, and provide track-and-trace capability throughout the lifecycle of the product.

By providing automated quality control tracking and industrial device programming that includes reading manufactured items as they move through the production process using the latest in data capture technologies and patented process techniques, customers are able to record step-by-step product movement, validate it against their designated work orders, and automatically adjust production variables that can include temperature, processing speed, quench water pressure, electro-magnetic inspection thresholds, taper and lead variables for threading, and a variety of other production data.

Main Features:

- Real-time Key Performance Indicator Odometers

• Inventory Turnover
• Yield/Defect Rates
• Production Volume
• Mechanical Availability
• Worker Efficiency
• Equipment Efficiency

- On-Event Alert Notifications

• SMS Text Message Alerts
• Audible Siren Alerts
• Visual LED Alerts

- Mobility Intelligence

• Smart Interface Presentation Layer (SIPL)
• Wireless Ecosystem Intelligence (WEI)
• Infield Interpretation Engine (IIE)

- Enterprise Synchronization

• Microsoft Dynamics NAV
• Microsoft Dynamics GP
• SAP
• Oracle

- Data Capture

• Radio Frequency Identification (Passive UHF, Passive HF, Active UHF, 802.11)
• Barcode (PDF 417, UPC, UCC, ISSN, EAN)

Real-time Key Performance Indicator Odometers
On-Event Alert Notification
Mobility Intelligence

SmartFeed�

In dynamic operational environments, prompt and responsive application systems that provide easy interaction to the field operatives are critical. Merlin Concepts & Technologys� provides production and logistics process management input capability via touch screen feedback stations through its SmartFeed� Application Suite. The suite enables optimal human-to-computer interaction through quick and easy translation of floor worker qualitative observations or actions to system recorded data. These ergonomic interfaces are proven to streamline the human-action-cycle and provide unprecedented usability for floor workers irrespective of their computer skill levels.

Recorded data is pushed into existing enterprise resource planners for use in production planning, historical quality control traceability, or real-time dashboard views of operations. Empowering floor workers with a paperless and efficient system to record or retrieve process information enables a proficient methodology for such record keeping. It allows product and process information to be instantly retrieved through electronic data queries, it enables quicker processing and recording times, and alleviates the cumbersome attributes inherent to a paper based system.

Smart Environment Interface
Smart Process Configuration
Smart Data Integration

SmartString�

The final destination of most oilfield products, the downhole is where the refined engineering systems used to build the subcomponents of the drill string are put to the test.

With several hundred tons of tensile forces, variable pressure spikes of 30,000+ psi, temperature peaks 200+ Fahrenheit, the oilfield products must hold up to assure sustained operation of the oil well.

Merlin's Downhole Drillstring Control provide the ability for final verification of the oilfield product as it is being lowered into the downhole. Ruggedized Automated data capture systems work to retrieve product identification and verify and validate the sequencing of drill string assembly against the pre-set design of the Oilfield Engineer. Integration into existing Drill String Design systems enables a seamless and transparent level of control that will assure incorrect or out of sequence components are not lowered into the borehole. The system provides feedback to the oil rig operators in the forms of visual, electronic, or audible alerts and system triggers, enabling them to assure the structural integrity of the drill string.