Why new RBI? Archives

07Jan 2021 by quantyco

10 major problems of RBI – Solved!

Here we identify 10 typical and ever-returning problems of traditional RBI methods and eliminate them forever via our new RBI methodology.Get ready for novel ideas beyond the traditional thinking and get ready to discover a holistically new upgraded World of Asset Integrity for the future. Problems: NDT tools and coverage Firstly, cheaper corrosion inspection tools (manual UT) remain overwhelmingly popular. In return, they produce a false scatter of thickness readings. This scatter often triggers follow-up inspections, can also drive incorrect decisions. More importantly, the choice of UT spots and the extent of inspection coverage is a 'boomerang' problem in every RBI round. One solution is expanding the inspection coverage. Though, it isn't a panacea due to high costs. A human factor in RBI planning also contributes: Less importantly, but changing…

26Sep 2019 by quantyco

5 Levels of Risk Analysis. How many do you have?

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Equipment risk analysis is a core activity in plant risk management. Many spears were broken about prioritizing individual equipment monitoring and risk controls, to ensure its safe and reliable operation. We have arrived to the capability of performing risk assessments at 5 levels of depth. This multi-level approach enables a two-fold cost/benefit optimization: analysis cost is minimized and a risk cost analysis is enabled where required. This article shows applications to pressure equipment inspection planning (RBI). Drivers for multi-level RBI We naturally recognize two levels of approach to engineering problems: First-pass system screening for criticality In-depth analysis of critical elements only This sequence of tasks well optimizes time and efforts. The only precaution is not to get locked into the screening step (1) solely. Critical objects require a detailed analysis…

15Aug 2019 by quantyco

Online IDMS/RBI software made by integrity engineers

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Did you ever wonder whether Integrity engineers can make a good IDMS platform by themselves? Other than just an RBI spreadsheet or MS Access database? Would that be different to the IT market offers? Triple YES! The below text outlines our new concept for a new level of the software user friendliness. It originates from our many years exposure to integrity engineering workflow and from many attempts to automate it. The AIM data® is online and ready to use. The Need for the New During many years of RBI exposure, we observed three major data management gaps: As soon as the number of inspection data grows, spreadsheet based analysis capability becomes limited. Just too many numbers, and too much copy-paste work. Spreadsheets work up to a point. What if we…

01Aug 2019 by quantyco

3 Pressure Relief Devices for Integrity Engineers

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Caring after plant integrity is a busy and stressful work. Human psychology is such that defending the current environment is confused with staying in a comfort zone. Albeit this zone may not be comfortable at all (same outcomes from same contractors, same burden of responsibility and document management, same questionable risk management confidence). If you wish to change this routine environment, consider the holistic improvement of integrity tasks: 1. Know your Risk Cost and Safety Implications Likely, one thing in the back of your mind might be: 'How confident are we about what we do for the equipment integrity and safety'? - an obsessive question. Consider all those people going on site and doing the hard work there. And also - all the resources being spend over a facility life.…

13Apr 2018 by quantyco

Why immediate savings impair plant safety?

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We can construct an optimal plant integrity management strategy. It will comply with your specific budget goals safely. Sounds too good? It will involve a step change in integrity data assessment methods. Mentioning 'safety', what comes into the mind of plant workers? PPE, JHA, KPI and more well recognized abbreviations. What is the prominent message from a typical safety induction session? 'If you don't commit unsafe actions in workplace, you will be fine out there!' Workers well remember such messages, safety. They follow the rules, but the clock is ticking. Because those procedural health and safety measures in place are just one side of the medal. The other side of the medal is the equipment technical integrity condition - a more sophisticated issue, which largely defines the risk environment where…

16Feb 2018 by quantyco

Why new RBI?

Here we start a new series of posts which explain what exactly we offer by our New integrity management methodology. Please don't hesitate to communicate your thoughts or critics. Welcome aboard our rocket ship! Issues with traditional RBI? Risk Based Inspection planning (RBI) is on the scene for decades. Its rightful concept of proportioning integrity budgets to failure risks is a great common-sense solution for cost optimization. The ever increasing budget savings pressure highlighted one major inability of the published RBI methodologies though. Financial management of industrial plants has set a question, which integrity management personnel can't reply: 'How much budget saving results from integrity management costs?' What happens is that both parties - integrity responsible and finance responsible - are striving to adopt a correct decision. But sadly,…

31Dec 2017 by quantyco

Let’s make the New Year positively different !

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HAPPY FESTIVE SEASON TO EVERYONE ! Welcome the New Year of opportunities. Our preceding posts address major quality gaps of integrity engineering. Is there a panacea solution? We believe: Yes! This article encompasses all we have presented earlier in this blog and bonds these topics together. This is our engineering philosophy for a new, better year coming. Situation Analysis A Christmas tree is an amazing sight: So beautiful! The lights are blinking, running here and there. Everything is shiny. Looks like an action, but no, these are rather visual effects with no other use. Certainly, our organizations aren't created for visual effects , but still, there can be internal spectators judging the business process entirely by its appearance. For example, someone responsible for safe and reliable operation of an equipment…

01Nov 2017 by quantyco

Failure Probability vs Failure Frequency

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Failure Probability is relevant to individual equipment and is a function of time. Failure frequency is relevant to a population of units, and is averaged over a time span. Which level of consideration should we use? It depends on the context and our goals. Let's drill this topic down from rocket science to engineering practice. There were 85 orbital launches in 2016 (refer this page). Two of them failed. The failure frequency was 2 / 85 ≈ 0.024. But does this tell us wether the pictured rocket will reach the orbit? No, it doesn't. The failure frequency tells us what is the chance of reaching the orbit in any contemporary rocket. This is subject to the nowadays technical and managerial environment and applies if nothing changes over time. If any…

10Oct 2017 by quantyco

Is it possible to become 100% compliant and what for?

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As we spoke in this post, the oil and gas immediate savings motive has a potential for safety issues. And here we discuss the safety compliance options, and outline an umbrella against major incidents and their implications. We start from a brief of the Australian Health and Safety legislation. Please refer to your local health and safety (H&S) legislation as well. Legislation overview The Australian top level enforceable safety law is the Workplace Health and Safety Act (WHS Act, 2011), which is the legal framework for penalty decisions. It is supplemented by WHS Regulations (reference [1]). These Regulations describe general requirements to the H&S risk control. In addition, there is a range of State approved Codes of Practice (CoP) which provide practical guidelines on how to meet the WHS Act…