DECK Assets

Improved Compliance

Align with NFPA 70E and CSA Z462 standards. Every asset has a live digital twin — accurate, always-current, and audit-ready. Mandatory 5-year arc flash study cycles become tighter when data is consistently maintained between studies.

Enhanced Safety

Put exact PPE requirements at the fingertips of every worker — including outside contractors who lack access to corporate servers. Specific to the task. Specific to the moment. Not generic guidance printed years ago.

Positive ROI

The manual cost to reprint and replace a single arc flash label ranges from $135 to $1,000. Teams report 30–40% reductions in walk-downs by assessing equipment digitally. The math is compelling.

Calibration History Shouldn’t Change Shape Every Year

When different engineering firms roll their own calibration sheets, records become inconsistent. DECK Assets gives owners a governed record so calibration truth stays coherent even when contractors change.

The Asset Should Hear the Conversation About Itself

Critical context stays trapped in email threads. DECK Assets supports equipment-specific email capture so documents and discussion land directly on the correct record.

Records Should Follow the Work

Calibration certificates, maintenance records, and documents often live across CMMS, ERP, and shared drives. DECK Assets brings those records to where the work is happening.

Plants Need One Truth Model Across Two Realities

Some assets need worker-visible electrical safety truth. Others need operational truth around identity, calibration, and execution. DECK Assets supports both in one system.

🖥️ Desk to Door Workflow

Changes flow instantly from an engineer’s desktop to the factory floor. Engineer → Cloud → Smartphone. No reprinting, no lag time, no liability.

🔒 Immutable Audit Logs

Every change is captured in a tamper-proof log. For Engineers of Record, this is liability protection built directly into the workflow.

⚡ Alternate Energy Source (AES) Awareness

When generators or backfeeds are active, hazard profiles change. DECK Assets dynamically reflects updated hazard data for the actual energy state of the equipment.

📊 Outage Impact Reporting (OIR)

SLD integration shows exactly what goes dark and what stays live before work begins. Fewer surprises, better coordination, complete situational awareness before a single breaker is touched.

What is DECK Assets?

DECK Assets is an industrial asset management software platform developed by Aasgard Developments Inc. in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It provides two modules: one for arc flash labeling and live electrical safety data on energized equipment, and one for equipment identity, calibration records, and maintenance documentation on operational plant assets. DECK Assets is part of the broader DECK DecisionWare suite of industrial operations software.

What is arc flash label lag time?

Lag time is the period between an engineering change — such as a load modification, equipment addition, or arc flash study update — and the corresponding update to the physical label on the equipment door. During this window, the label may display incorrect incident energy levels or PPE requirements, exposing workers to unquantified risk. DECK Assets eliminates lag time by connecting arc flash study data directly to QR-enabled digital labels that update instantly when the underlying data changes.

How does DECK Assets differ from traditional arc flash label management?

Traditional arc flash management relies on periodic studies, printed vinyl labels, and manual relabeling whenever data changes. This creates a static system that is accurate only at the moment of printing. DECK Assets replaces this with a live, cloud-connected system: engineers update data at their desktop, and those changes propagate instantly to QR codes affixed to the equipment. Workers scan the code and see current, verified data — not a sticker that may be months or years out of date. Every change is also logged in an immutable audit trail, providing liability protection that printed labels cannot.

What is a “digital twin” for electrical equipment?

In the context of DECK Assets, a digital twin is a live, cloud-hosted record for a specific piece of equipment that mirrors its current electrical safety parameters — incident energy levels, PPE requirements, working distance, equipment condition notes, and study history. Unlike a printed label or a static CMMS record, the digital twin updates in real time when engineers modify the underlying arc flash study data, ensuring the information a worker accesses via QR code always reflects the actual current state of the equipment.

What does Alternate Energy Source (AES) Awareness mean?

AES Awareness refers to the system’s ability to dynamically update hazard profiles when alternate energy sources — such as generators, UPS systems, or backfeed configurations — are active. In these scenarios, the incident energy calculations from the primary arc flash study may not apply. DECK Assets can reflect the modified hazard profile for the actual energy state of the equipment at the time of the work, ensuring workers have PPE requirements specific to the current configuration rather than the assumed baseline.

What is Outage Impact Reporting (OIR)?

Outage Impact Reporting uses Single Line Drawing (SLD) integration to show planners exactly which equipment loses power and which remains energized before work begins on a given circuit. This allows maintenance planners and engineers to assess the full impact of a planned outage from the desktop — identifying what goes dark, what stays live, and what adjacent equipment may create unexpected hazards — before a single crew member enters the field. OIR reduces surprises, improves coordination, and supports safer, more efficient turnaround planning.

What are immutable audit logs and why do they matter for arc flash safety?

An immutable audit log is a tamper-proof, timestamped record of every change made to equipment data — who changed it, what was changed, and when. For Engineers of Record (EORs), this is critical liability protection: in the event of an incident or regulatory investigation, the audit log provides an authoritative record of what the system showed at any point in time and who authorized each change. Traditional printed labels provide no equivalent traceability. DECK Assets maintains this log automatically for every parameter update across all managed assets.

How does DECK Assets support NFPA 70E and CSA Z462 compliance?

NFPA 70E (in the US) and CSA Z462 (in Canada) are the primary standards governing arc flash safety and electrical safety program requirements for industrial facilities. Both standards require that workers be provided with accurate, up-to-date arc flash hazard information before performing energized electrical work. DECK Assets supports compliance by ensuring that the PPE requirements and incident energy data accessible to workers at the point of work always reflect the current, study-validated parameters — and by maintaining the documentation and audit trails that demonstrate ongoing compliance during inspections or incident investigations.