Risk-Based Inspection
Plant maintenance and inspection resources should be used preferentially on high-risk assets as they have the potential to cause serious disruption in plant operations or cause an unplanned shutdown. The priority treatment of high-risk assets must be balanced by providing sufficient maintenance and inspection for other lower-risk equipment to avoid the emergence or growth of problems over time.
Quest Integrity Group’s approach recognizes that a relatively small percentage of plant equipment accounts for a very large percentage of disruption, shutdown and safety risk.
Risk-based inspection (RBI) begins with identification of high-risk assets followed by assessment of equipment condition, evaluation of maintenance and inspection programs, study of operating protocols and estimation of life consumption of these priority assets. This process takes into account the likelihood and consequences of mechanical failure. This information is then used to modify and optimize inspection and maintenance programs, audit procedures, operating limits and safety information.
Our solution includes the following aspects:
- Inspection program optimization
- Implementation of RMS™ software – a versatile, RBI solution framework and database management system
- Preparation of inspection and maintenance plans and manuals
- Analysis of condition and failure data
- Statistical analysis of inspection data
- Extreme value statistical analysis
- Detailed, risk based planning of shutdown activities and management of shutdown inspections
- Materials engineering
- Advanced inspection
- Expert technical support
- Experienced reliability engineers and shutdown managers
- Structural integrity experts
Additional Information
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