The table below highlights the key differences between Credo and another widely-used system:
Piping and Equipment Management
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Credo |
Competitor |
Piping and Equipment Management
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Unlimited Equipment Types
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Flexible Equipment hierarchy
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User-defined Equipment Templates
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Automatic Inheritance of technical and process data from parent equipment to child components or test points
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Dynamic grouping of equipment
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Windows Explorer-style interface
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Equipment Archive Feature
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Export equipment data to MS Excel
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Copy and Paste technical data |
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Create user-defined pick lists of common codes or values
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Spell checker
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Customization Features
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Credo |
Competitor |
User-defined language files to support national language or corporate terminology
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Spanish only |
Value based color formatting
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Create custom data entry templates for technical data and inspection reports
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Create custom Views of data
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Anomaly Management / Repair Tracking
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Credo |
Competitor |
Search and filter |
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Create reports
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Track Anomalies
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Corrosion Management
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Credo |
Competitor |
Minimum Wall Thickness Calculator (T-min)
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Self documenting T-min calculator
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Manual data entry of thickness readings
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Spreadsheet-style data entry window
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Automatic color coding of readings based on Alarm status |
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Automatic calculation of Alarm Thresholds
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Manual setting of Alarm Thresholds |
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Material Code Table
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Piping Schedule Table |
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Active / Inactive reading flag
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Requires manufacturers communications software
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Graphical Trend Analysis
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Stores up to three possible retiral dates, corrosion rates and correlation per TML |
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Limited to one |
Fixed format reports
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Graphical profile of thickness on a range of test points |
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Copy TML’s
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Unlimited number of TML’s per location
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Data Loggers
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Credo |
Competitor |
Import thickness readings
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Import A-Scans
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Import B-Scans
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Import comments
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Automatically create Anomaly or Defect records
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Build and store library of Work-packs
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Optionally export last available reading to datalogger |
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Import and Export with MS Excel
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Import and Export with delimited text file
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Supports Panametrics 26 DL Plus
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Supports Panametrics 36 DL Plus
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Supports Panametrics EPOCH III
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Supports Panametrics EPOCH IV
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Supports KrautKramer DMS2
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Support StressTel T-Scope III
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Interface with SAP and MAXIMO |
Credo |
Competitor |
Synchronises SAP Equipment Details
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Raise notifications in SAP
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Synchronises MAXIMO Equipment Details
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Raise notifications in MAXIMO
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Risk Based Inspection (RBI)
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Credo |
Competitor |
In-house developed and maintained (not supplied by a third party company)
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User Programmable (the user can develop their own logic) |
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API 580 Level 1 Compliant
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API 580 Level 2 Compliant
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API 581 Level 1 Compliant
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API 581 Level 2 Compliant
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API 581 Level 3 Compliant
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Configurable |
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Self documenting (Export to PDF)
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Corrosion Models
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Credo |
Competitor |
Stress Corrosion Cracking
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H2S
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Corrosion Under Insulation
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Document Management
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Credo |
Competitor |
Support most files types
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Integrated file viewer
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Launches AutoCAD application
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Supports AutoCAD viewing
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Dynamic update of AutoCAD drawings
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Link external files to Inspection records
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Link external files to Equipment records
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Enterprise-Wide Document Management
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Credo |
Competitor |
Oracle-based with check-in, checkout and revision control
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Not available |
Web-enabled (Intranet) software
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Credo |
Competitor |
Supports Internet Explorer 4 and greater
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Not available |
Workflow
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Read and write
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Multi-level security
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Inspection Management
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Credo |
Competitor |
Unlimited inspection types
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User defined Inspection Templates
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Inspection scheduling
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Schedule Inspections for Multiple Equipment Items simultaneously
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Supports Custom Inspection Types
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Spreadsheet style listing of Inspections
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Planning Matrix style listing of Inspections
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Standard filters – All Overdue, Planned by date range etc.
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Reporting
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Credo |
Competitor |
MS Word export
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MS Excel export
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Color reports
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Custom Report Designer
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Intelligent Reports – show only relevant data
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Automatic embedding of digital photographs in custom reports
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Application Security
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Credo |
Competitor |
Assign users to membership of Groups which share similar permissions
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Field Level security associated with User Groups
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Manage multiple sites in a single Oracle database instance
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Operating system authentication. User account linked to Windows Logon account
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Enforce user data entry method, e.g. typing / select from lookup table
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