NFC Tag Installation
PURPOSE
To ensure that NFC tags are installed consistently and uniformly across all tracked assets. This ensures that the tags can be located quickly and easily by technicians and customers.
PLACEMENT
- Pipe & pup joints over 10 ft long: Place 2 tags on opposite ends of the pipe, 180 degrees from each other. This ensures that the asset can still be scanned when rigged up.
- Plug Valves: Place tag on the wing side of the valve body, next to the serial plate.
- Choke Saver: Place tag on the back of the wing
- Other Assets: Place on the thread (female) side of the asset.
PROCEDURE
Plan to work in batches of around 5-25 pieces at a time depending on type/size of asset. Do each step on all of the assets in the batch before moving to the next step.
- Enter asset details into Alpha Flowback Asset Tracker and record the Asset ID on the asset using a paint pen.
- Grind paint off of the locations where tags are to be installed.
- Apply a self-adhesive NFC tag to the location.
- Use NFC tools app to write the Asset Tracker URL to the NFC chip.
- Apply 1 layer of epoxy to the tag and surrounding area, extending at least 1/4″ past all sides of the tag to ensure adhesion.
- Allow epoxy to fully dry for at least 10 minutes before touching the NFC tag location
- You have completed installing NFC tags.
Provident Energy ShopFlow:
Complete Step-by-Step Guide
In this video, we walk through the full Shopflow process — from prepping equipment all the way to testing, tagging, and rebuilding if necessary. Shopflow 3.0 ensures every step of your equipment’s lifecycle is tracked digitally, making it easy to stay organized, increase safety, and ensure assets are always field-ready.
To navigate the video using linked timestamps, open it on YouTube.
Table of Contents:
0:00 Intro
0:56 Identification and NFC Prep
2:33 NFC Installation
3:06 Band Removal
3:21 Dashboard Overview
3:50 Intake
4:53 NFC Tag Writing
6:06 UT (Ultrasonic Testing)
6:39 Adding Asset to Package
7:40 Visual Inspection
8:12 UT Batch
8:24 Grind Clean
8:41 Greasing
10:37 Pressure Testing
14:40 Submitting Pressure Test
16:02 Marking for Rebuild
16:56 Rebuilding
18:22 Rebuilding – Software Side
Intake & Inspection
Intake:
Your first step in intaking the asset is to press the Intake Asset button. This page will generate the Asset Tracker ID and assign it to your asset.
- Next, enter the serial number for the asset in the second line. If the serial number can’t be located, click No Serial Number and one will be generated.
- Once you’ve entered the serial, select Next to continue.
- Now you’ll fill out the rest of the asset details.
Use the on-screen form to enter all required asset information step by step. Depending on the asset, the required details may vary but typically you’ll enter the pressure, size, manufacturer, and asset type.
- After that, take a picture of the asset.
- Now you can submit the asset into the Asset Tracker.
- Once that’s complete, the next step is programming the NFC tag.
- To do this, click Copy Asset Link or Write NFC Tag.
Next, prepare the spot on the asset where the NFC tag will be placed. grind it clean.
- Place the NFC tag on the prepared spot.
- Back in the scan tool, press Write NFC Tag, then hold your phone on top of the NFC tag.
- You’ll get a success message once the NFC tag is programmed.
You can check it by scanning the tag, just place your phone over the NFC tag, and the asset record should appear in the Asset Tracker.
The final step is to epoxy the NFC tag in place. Apply the epoxy and that’s it. The process is complete.
Inspection:
After assets are intaked and tagged, they’re ready to be added to a job. To do that, we open the Manage a Job screen and pick the job we’re working on.
- Next, we hit Add Asset and either scan the tag or type in the asset ID.
- We’ll get a quick prompt asking if banding is present on the asset.
- Then we do a visual inspection making sure the asset meets industry standards.
Once that’s done, we enter the UT batch number and save the asset to the job. We repeat this process for each asset until the job is fully loaded.
ShopFlow App Walkthrough
Coming Soon!
We are in the process of getting our complete ShopFlow App Walkthrough completed and will have it posted here and on YouTube shortly.