Turn a turnaround-season inspection backlog into a prioritised, defensible plan.
For refinery, terminal, and process-plant inspection teams. Sentrix is an engineering decision layer that fits inside your existing risk-based inspection programme - it turns drone evidence from fired heaters, vessels, storage tanks, and elevated piping into a prioritised, defensible answer to what needs attention next, without the scaffolding or rope-access mobilisation that evidence used to require.
Refinery and industrial static equipment - fired heaters, pressure vessels, storage tanks, elevated piping - has traditionally been inspected by putting a person at height: scaffolding erected for a shell survey, a rope-access technician descending a stack. That is expensive, slow to schedule, and exposes people to real risk. Sentrix is proprietary software built to turn drone-captured evidence of that same equipment into the same defensible inspection record, so scaffolding and rope access get reserved for the locations that genuinely need close-contact work.
This is a genuine, current application area of the same platform we build for gas pipeline inspection - not a side project. The underlying problem is identical in shape: too much static equipment, too little inspection throughput, and a decision about what to prioritise that currently rests on institutional memory more than evidence.
Output is structured to slot into your existing risk-based inspection (RBI) and turnaround planning process, and Sentrix is explicit about what it does not replace - ultrasonic thickness gauging, weld examination, and other contact-based NDT still do the job only contact measurement can do.
The questions a plant inspection lead actually asks
You don’t need another flight vendor. You need less scaffolding time, less rope-access mobilisation, and a record your RBI programme can actually use. That’s what we optimise for.
Does it reduce scaffolding and rope-access cost?
Fired heaters, elevated piping, vessel shells, and tank roofs are traditionally accessed by scaffolding or rope-access teams working at height. Sentrix turns drone-captured evidence into the same defensible record, so mobilisation is reserved for the locations that genuinely need close-contact work.
Does it fit our RBI and turnaround programme?
Report-ready output is a first-class deliverable, not a manual afterthought. Findings come structured to feed your existing risk-based inspection and turnaround planning process, removing a transcription step rather than adding a new one.
Does it replace our thickness gauging and NDT programme?
No. Ultrasonic thickness gauging, weld examination, and other contact-based NDT measure things airborne evidence cannot. Sentrix works on the visual and thermal evidence layer and focuses where that close-contact effort is spent - screening first, mobilising second.
Can I trust a software-flagged finding?
Every flagged item carries its evidence - what was observed and why it was flagged - so your inspection engineers audit the reasoning instead of trusting an opaque score.
Is this the same platform you use for pipelines, or a different product?
The same platform. Sentrix is built as one decision layer that generalises across oil and gas infrastructure - the underlying comparison and prioritisation approach applies whether the asset is a pipeline corridor or a fired heater, with the specifics tailored to each.
A decision layer, not another system to adopt
What lands on your inspection team’s desk
A prioritised static-equipment target list
A defensible, evidence-based ranking of vessels, heaters, tanks, and elevated piping to inspect first - replacing ad hoc scheduling as the basis for turnaround planning.
Cycle-over-cycle change detection
What changed since the last inspection pass, isolated from what was already known, so your team reviews new risk rather than re-reading static condition.
A report-ready inspection record
Auditable records generated automatically, structured to align with your RBI programme and internal reporting requirements.
Evidence you can defend in a budget review
A clear, traceable basis for where inspection and maintenance spend goes next - useful to the engineer doing the review and the person signing off the budget.
Tell us about your site.
Share what static equipment and access constraints you’re working with, and we’ll walk through how Sentrix would prioritise it - including an honest account of what we can and can’t yet prove at this stage.