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MOVING PACP™
DATA
BETWEEN SYSTEMS
By NASSCO Infrastructure Condition Assessment Member
Keith Carpenter, P.E., WithersRavenel
After many successful Pipeline Assessment Certification Program (PACP)
inspection projects end, there is a large amount of collected data that
some PACP-certified professionals, engineers and utility workers do
not understand. Specifically, they do not understand how to put
the new data to good use. As it turns out, this is one of the most
misunderstood elements of PACP. For some end users and utility
owners, the typical solution has been to file these away in a project
file or archive them on an external drive and comb through them if
there is ever a reason to review them in the future. There is, however,
a better way. As most seasoned PACP-certified individuals know, the
best way to get the most out of PACP data starts with importing these
inspections into a NASSCO-certified PACP software.
When it comes to PACP-certified software, there are over a dozen different options available (see
NASSCO.org/Resources for a complete list). While each software is unique in its own right, all
PACP-certified software programs do have one thing in common: Each software has the ability to
communicate with each other to transfer information.
As part of NASSCO's PACP software certification process, every PACP-certified software is evaluated
to confirm its ability to import, export, and generate what is traditionally called a " standard PACP
exchange " database file. The standard database file is always generated as an unlocked, passwordfree,
Microsoft Access database (.mdb file extension) capable of being open and read in any PACP
software program. As part of the software certification process, all software programs are reviewed to
confirm that they can correctly import all standard data fields and data sets found within the standard
database export file. This database standardization requirement allows for any PACP-certified
software to transfer data from one PACP-certified software to another.
For most software platforms, the process to export a PACP database is fairly easy and can be
accomplished with a few clicks of the mouse. The steps to generate the database differ slightly for
each software company and each software vendor offers guidance on how to successfully generate
the standard PACP exchange file with their software.
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