Welcome to Arridex Technologies
This primer exists to get you from zero domain knowledge to a working understanding of the industries, products, and priorities you are now responsible for, and to help you settle into your role properly with clear expectations for your first 90 days at Arridex Technologies. It is written for someone with no prior exposure to oil and gas, industrial inspection, or manufacturing. Nothing here assumes you already know the vocabulary.
How to use this
This is a reference wiki, not a document to read once and file away. Each page stands on its own, and the sidebar on the left is always available so you can jump to whatever you need. Terms you have most likely not seen before are underlined with a dotted line; the first time a term appears on a page, it links to its full definition in the Glossary.
That said, if this is your first time here, we recommend working through the pages in order once, since later pages assume you already have the grounding built in earlier ones.
Suggested reading order
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Arridex at a Glance
What Arridex is, who it serves, and how the company is structured. Read this first, everything else sits inside this frame.
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Asset Integrity Domain
The oil and gas, maritime, defence, and aerospace world: what an asset is, what can go wrong with it, and how inspection keeps it safe.
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Velidon
The product that Arridex builds for asset integrity operations, and the one closest to your day-to-day remit.
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Additive Manufacturing Domain
A second, unrelated industrial world: how a modern manufacturing factory that 3D-prints (additively manufactures) industrial parts actually runs.
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ADAM OS
The software platform Arridex has built to run that factory, and the standardisation work now in front of you.
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EDGE ERP and
POP
The two internal platforms that run the business itself: an ERP for operations, and a SharePoint-based process and compliance layer.
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Compliance Roadmap
Why ISO 27001 and SOC2 matter here, and what each one actually requires.
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Portfolio Logic
How the four products fit together as one software portfolio, and why one team builds all of them.
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90-Day Priority Actions
What you are actually expected to do in your first quarter, for the portfolio as a whole and for each product individually.