M. C. Miller’s Integrated Solution for ECDA Evaluations
The M. C. Miller
Company, which has been serving the needs of the Cathodic Protection
industry for over 60 years, represents a single source for the
hardware, software and training needed to carry out
CIS and DCVG surveys for ECDA evaluations.
With
regard to satisfying the “Indirect Inspections” step of the ECDA
methodology, we provide a one-stop-shop for the hardware
requirements of both CIS and DCVG surveys, including portable
reference electrode data-probes, data-loggers (rugged,
handheld PC’s with MCM’s digital voltmeter and state-of-the-art
survey application programs), current interrupters with GPS clock
synchronization and soil resistivity measurement equipment. In
addition, our data-loggers are fully supported by our database
management software program, known as ProActive, which allows
pipeline survey data to be uploaded from our data-loggers and to be
associated with the relevant line segments in your pipeline system.
The ProActive program allows permanent storage of your pipeline
survey data in a database system and provides you with a multitude
of reporting options, including extensive graphical reporting.
In addition to providing integrated hardware &
software packages for
CIS and DCVG surveys, the M. C. Miller Company also offers in-depth
training courses to technicians and managers covering the physical
principles of the CIS and DCVG survey techniques, the use of MCM
hardware (including our data-loggers) to conduct pipeline surveys
and the functionality of the ProActive software program, with
emphasis on managing pipeline survey data (please see the Training
section)
It should be noted that other survey data, such as
SmartPig data, for example, that
may be acquired as part of an ECDA evaluation, can be easily
imported to ProActive and the data can be integrated with any other
pipeline survey data to provide a complete picture of the status of a pipeline
or of a line segment.