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AEMS, one step at a time.

Real AEMS screens of one synthetic depot, in the order you would use them: draw, check, find, understand, fix.

DEMO · NOT FOR OPERATIONAL USE
  1. Real AEMS plan of synthetic Depot Golf: two rows of earth-covered magazines, three open stacks, a storehouse, the internal road and the fence, on a metric grid.

    Step 1 of 7

    Your depot, drawn to scale

    Storages, buildings, roads and the fence on a local metric grid. Depot Golf is a synthetic depot: its names, places and contents are made up, and the distances are what AEMS works out for them.

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  2. AEMS panel for the open stack OS-3: its contents from the Excel inventory, and a green tick saying the items may share the storage under AASTP-1 Table 5.

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    What is inside

    Each storage carries what it holds, here loaded from the site's Excel inventory: its hazard division, its net explosive quantity, and whether the items may share the storage under AASTP-1 Table 5.

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  3. AEMS verdict card for the depot as first drawn: not compliant, some storages have a neighbour too close, with the worst pair named.

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    One answer for the whole site

    As soon as the site is drawn, AEMS measures the closest distance from every storage to each of its neighbours and gives one answer for the whole depot, the worst pair first.

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  4. Close-up of the AEMS map with a red line from the open stack OS-3 to the house H-6, beside the verdict card for OS-3: not compliant, H-6 too close, with the distance needed and the distance there is.

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    It finds what is too close

    Select a storage and AEMS names the neighbour that is too close, the distance it needs and the distance it has, on the map and in words.

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  5. AEMS picture "why this distance?" for OS-3 and H-6: the measured distance on a plan, close-ups of both, and the table of effects with the one that governs.

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    Why this distance?

    One click shows where the distance comes from: the effect that governs, the table column and the exposed-site type.

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  6. AEMS advice card: a draft that moves one synthetic item from OS-3 to OS-1, after which both storages are compliant.

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    What should I change?

    AEMS suggests moves between the storages you already have, each checked on the whole site before and after. It is a draft: a qualified officer checks every step.

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  7. AEMS verdict card for the depot after the fix: compliant, all storages far enough from their neighbours.

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    Fixed

    With this move and the fixes for the other storages, every storage keeps its distances. The forms, maps and door cards are ready to print, as drafts for a qualified officer.

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Real AEMS screens · synthetic Depot Golf · AEMS b358bcb, 29 October 2026 · per AASTP-1 Ed D - not for operational use

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