Armstrong Technology provides in service design and professional support services worldwide. The company has the skills and the experience necessary to assist clients to modify, maintain and upgrade their offshore assets rapidly to ensure maximum availability, profitably and safely.

Our range of support includes;

• resolving technical queries
• feasibility studies and concept design for modifications
• detailed engineering design packages
• obsolescence management
• vessel life expectancy evaluation

Armstrong Technology recognises the need to provide in-service design support to keep pace with process plant/equipment modifications. Our multi-disciplined engineering skills specialise in providing design changes for modifications/upgrades to:

• FPSO/FPU’s
• FSU’s
• Platfroms

Our support service is geared to assisting owners/operators to ensure that downtime is minimised through the following;

• Providing rapid support by responding to technical enquires,
• Providing a design capability to support modifications to increase capability and life expectancy in the hull and systems,
• Provide design consultancy to manage obsolescence.

Our core engineering disciplines enable us to offer a complete support service where we provide everything from individual feasibility studies to detailed engineering design modification packages, encompassing changes to:

• pipe work systems,
• load bearing and support structure,
• electrical/mechanical equipment,
• electrical distribution and lighting,
• accommodation layouts and outfitting,
• safety systems and arrangements,
• communication and navigation systems.
  

Armstrong Technology can provide, through Babcock Design & Technology, a state of the art, 3-Dimensional laser mapping service, which captures positional information about complex structures and sites for the production of electronic drawings.

The service is provided in the following phases:

• Select and initiate an area/object(s) to be scanned, at 1000 points per second.
• Register (stitch) together multiple scans to cover the required area/object(s).
• Transform the captured raw data into a 3 Dimensional Model.
• Extract 2D & 3D drawing files.

The benefits of our service as compared to traditional methods of measuring include:

• Speed of data capture, between 30% to 40% quicker.
• Only 2 people required.
• Greater accuracy and completeness (between 2mm – 6mm over 1m to 50m).
• No site revisits necessary.
• The quickest method to produce 2D and 3D drawings.
  

Armstrong Technology, through Babcock Design & Technology can provide an information management service which structures, collates, manages and delivers a design documentation package on completion of the project. Information can include calculations, drawings, documents, schedules and test results. In addition, it is important to consider the use of these documents in the on-going operations and maintenance cycles. Armstrong Technology can provide a service that manages the entire through life support documents needs of the project.