MechChem Africa May-June 2025

Chempute adds Cenosco IMS suite to portfolio MCA talks to Omar Rugebani from Cenosco, and Andrew Taylor, MD of Chempute, about Cenosco IMS, an innovative asset integrity management system purpose-built to support high-risk plants in maintaining safe, reliable, and efficient operations.

tralised maintenance (RCM) analyses, leading to the execution of preventive maintenance tasks such as condition monitoring, failure finding, time-based maintenance and condition-based maintenance of equipment across the plant. “But it also goes a step further in that it strives to enable operators to directly improve operational efficiency. By integrating risk-based inspection, preventive maintenance and central ised integrity data, Cenosco IMS enables plants to not only avoid failures but also to optimise asset utilisation, improve planning, and reduce unnecessary maintenance interventions. This delivers the dual benefit of fewer disruptions and smarter, more efficient operations, with more continuous production delivering signifi cantly better profitability,” he notes. From the initial IMS software, Cenosco began to broaden the scope of the suite. “We be gan to look at flange connection, for example, a major source of leaks on interconnecting piping. Then we went on to look at the functional safety and protection barriers on the front line of pro tecting people and surrounding plant from harm in the event of a catastrophe. Risk assessment routines such as Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP) and Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) were included to identify potential hazards and assess the effectiveness of the protection layers in mitigating those hazards. The latest Cenosco IMS Suite however, has taken the solution to a far more comprehensive level. “We now have an enterprise level, com pletely integrated and comprehensive modular software platform, designed to manage pres

user of Cenosco software to this day. The success of RRM, Shell’s satisfaction with its capabilities and the expanding capabil ity prompted a broader initiative to develop a unified system that could support asset integ rity management across all safety critical plant types. “This resulted in Cenosco IMS, our full asset integrity management suite, which was launched in 2014 – and today we are still evolv ing and rolling it out into an ever wider range of plants,” Omar Rugebani tells MCA . The capability evolution Cenosco IMS initially focused on pressure equipment, piping and tanks in the oil and gas industry, looking at degradation mechanisms and failure risks on a plant wide basis – due to corrosion for example. “We typically start with a risk-based inspection (RBI) assessment where the probability and consequence of the equip ment failure is determined. This helps a site to prioritise their equipment based on criticality (risk). This, together with predicted remaining life analysis, is then used to determine the due dates and scope for equipment inspections,” he says. “By predicting and tracking the expected life of plant components, intervention times can be optimised, remaining life extended and, most importantly, unscheduled shutdowns and unnecessarily damaging and dangerous failures can be avoided,” Rugebani points out. In addition, as well including the asset integrity side, Cenosco’s IMS solution delivers enhanced uptime by supporting reliability cen

C enosco, the global asset integrity management system (IMS) spe cialist, has chosen to partner with South Africa-based Chempute Software for the delivery of Cenosco’s IMS Suite of reliability safeguards for asset-in tensive industries in South Africa and Nigeria. “Our Integrity Management System (IMS) is designed to optimise asset utilisation, reduce unplanned shutdowns and ensure regulatory compliance across various industries, most no tably oil and gas, chemicals and mining,” begins Omar Rugebani, Partners and Alliance director at Cenosco, who joined Cenosco to help build a network of partners to expand and promote Cenosco’s software. He says that Cenosco was founded back in 2002 as a bespoke software development company. “We delivered custom solutions tailored to client needs, initially for Shell Global Solutions, the R&D department for Royal Dutch Shell, who approached our founders to develop a customised risk and reliability management (RRM) system for their oil, gas and petrochemi cal plants. Following initial success, the RRM system was rolled out across the whole of Shell’s global network and the company remains a loyal Omar Rugebani, Partners and Alliance Director at Cenosco.

Cenosco’s IMS optimises asset utilisation, reduce unplanned shutdowns and ensures regulatory compliance to support high-risk assets.

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