Doha, Qatar, 22 May 2025 – Akselos, the global leader in Structural Performance Management (SPM), has launched SPM for Flanges, a powerful new module enhancing asset integrity across industrial sites. The solution addresses a critical yet often underestimated issue: flange failures, a major source of downtime and maintenance costs.
The unveiling takes place during the 8th Asset Integrity & Corrosion Management Conference in Doha, Qatar, a key event focused on operational excellence and asset reliability for the region’s oil & gas, petrochemical, and energy industries.
In a typical refinery, there are hundreds of thousands of these critical connectors, which play a vital role in linking piping systems, pressure vessels, and essential equipment across both refineries and offshore platforms. Yet, traditional maintenance and analysis are bottlenecks during multi-million-dollar refinery turnarounds, leading to safety risks, unplanned downtime, and costly delays and directly affecting throughput and profitability.
“Studies have shown that flange failures account for up to 5% of hazardous liquid accidents – each incident costing operators thousands, or even millions, in downtime and lost production,” said Claus Reimers, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Akselos. “Operators don’t just need tools to keep things running; they need solutions that prevent problems before they happen. That’s how you hit reliability targets, cut down on HSSE risks, and keep performance on track.”
Akselos’ new module significantly cuts flange analysis time from days to hours, making it easier to plan maintenance across large asset bases. It helps prevent issues like over-tightening, improves safety, and ensures product stays contained. With SPM for Flanges, operators can work up to 80% faster than with traditional methods, enabling smarter, data-driven decisions.
“I’ve seen firsthand how slow, legacy flange analysis during shutdowns leads to costly delays and impacts operations,” added Reimers. “SPM for Flanges eliminates that bottleneck. It’s a fast, visual, data-driven solution that supports smarter, quicker decisions—and that’s exactly the kind of shift our industry needs.”
This launch marks a fundamental shift in how the industry approaches asset integrity—not by offering isolated tools, but by enabling a smarter, site-wide strategy. By integrating this new module into the Akselos SPM suite, operators gain a real-time, unified view of their asset health, transforming maintenance into a driver of performance and resilience across the entire operation.
In a world where downtime costs millions and infrastructure investment struggles to keep pace, Akselos continues to build on its expertise in optimizing critical infrastructure, providing groundbreaking SPM software that helps extend asset life, improve safety, and reduce costs in high-stakes environments like FPSO operations and refineries.
About Akselos
Akselos provides groundbreaking Structural Performance Management (SPM) software powered by the world’s fastest and most advanced physics-based simulations. Founded in 2012 and with operations in Europe, the USA, and Southeast Asia, Akselos’ SPM software is designed to help protect the world’s critical infrastructure through near real-time structural health monitoring capabilities. For more information, visit akselos.com.
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