Whether the need is for a full plant-scale Inspection/Reliability Database Management System (IDMS) or a specialized single-asset module for an existing IDMS or EAM (enterprise asset management) system, Quest Reliability’s Reliability Management System™ software offers a practical and cost-effective asset management solution.

• Purpose:  IDMS oriented to high temperature plants, primarily for use by reliability engineers and plant operators.  Generally applicable to refining, petrochemical and power plants.  Currently used for:
  • Synthetic gas plants (ammonia, hydrogen, methanol)
  • Refineries
  • Power plants (thermal and geothermal)
  • Specialized modules:  Fired Heater, Steam Reformer
• Major Functionalities:
  • Full-cycle equipment life management: generate equipment-specific inspection tasks linked to critical degradation mechanisms, track non-conformances, log detailed inspection reports, modification history, and failure history.
  • Record key equipment design and operating data, including reports, drawings, schematics, photographs.
  • Calculation of risk, risk rankings and matrices based on API 581
  • Content compliance with in-service inspection standards
  • Interface to enterprise resource planning software (e.g., SAP), organize and link to external datasets and files
• Selected Features: specialized equipment registers covering all core asset types and components (process vessels, tanks, piping, heat exchangers, cranes, process fired heaters, PSDs, and nozzles), easy-to-use, quick access menus and outcome-oriented navigation buttons, robust and secure multiple-user system, numerous pre-built reports as well as a custom report writer.

Embedded Knowledge

• Developed by our expert engineers based on their hands-on experience in refineries, petrochemical and synthetic gas industries, and power plants 
• Experienced-based focus on and prioritization of issues and data while automating many routine data management and report generation activities
• Pragmatic data management functionalities, providing fingertip access to those data that experience has shown are needed to make decisions affecting reliability  
• Risk calculation function incorporation of failure rates based on more than 3000 asset inspections performed by the same team that designed the software – reduction in the uncertainty of the API 581 risk algorithm and quality improvement
• Separate modules for fired heaters and steam reformers developed in response to the specialized needs of customers, and unique in their detail, empirical basis and handling of failure mechanisms

Benefits

• Provides a complete asset management solution in a focued framework
• Facilitates broad improvement, through ease-of-use, in the efficiency of plant managers, functional managers and supervisors, risk assessment consultants and inspectors
• Automates production of a broad range of standard reports
• Supports Risk-Based Inspection directly with critical metrics and data sets
• Integrates with SAP, reducing reporting loads
• Automates inspection planning and scheduling

Applications

• Whole plant standalone IDMS and RBI software for:
  • Refinery
  • Synthetic gas plant:  ammonia, hydrogen, methanol
  • Thermal and geothermal power plants
• Single asset inspection data management and RBI software module, for:
  • Fired heaters
  • Steam reformers
  • Pipework and
  • Welds
• Data management and risk assessment toolkit for consultant-assisted Reliability Centered Maintenance and RBI Assessment programs.

For further information about Reliability Management System™ please contact us.