Risk Based Inspection (RBI) - A Mechanical Integrity Best Practice

What are your goals for RBI? How will you measure your success? How will you sustain that success? We will answer these questions and examine all the components that make up delivering and being able to sustain an RBI asset integrity management program as a best practice.

Overview

Risk Based Inspection (RBI) - A Mechanical Integrity Best Practice

As a mechanical integrity best practice, the following aspects of RBI will be explored:

Current asset integrity practices, roles, responsibilities and examples of gaps that may exist, as well as the importance of developing a rapport with those earmarked to manage the new program.

Develop procedures and work processes should include as a minimum the following parts:

  • MI Policy and Strategy
  • Training Personnel
  • Managing Information
  • Controlling Documents
  • MI System Description

Work Flow should include as a minimum the following parts:

  • Identify Asset Integrity (AI) processes and equipment
  • Collecting Data and Information
  • Determining Potential Degradation Mechanisms/Failure Mechanisms
  • Assessing Risk -if required
  • Developing Inspection and Maintenance Plans
  • Executing Inspection and Maintenance Plans
  • Evaluating Activity Results
  • Communicating Results
  • Measuring Performance

Quality Procedures

Equipment Strategies and installation procedures

Task Procedures

Training

Lunch and Learn Inquiry

For more information about this course or to inquire about a customized version of this course hosted in-house at our Houston, Texas location or on-site at a location convenient to you, please complete the form below.


Related Services

Risk Based Inspection (RBI) Implementation and Planning

AOC has delivered thousands of sustainable Risk Based Inspection (RBI) programs earning the trust of owner operators.

Development of Mechanical Integrity (MI) Procedures and Processes

A maintenance system designed in which elements work together as a quality system for maximum returns

RAM, RCM, FMEA, FMECA and Bad Actor Analysis

AOC delivers the policies, procedures, work processes, knowledge and actions such as preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, and condition monitoring tasks.

Related Tools

API 580 Work Process Quiz

How well do you know RBI? Take this short quiz to test your knowledge of the API 580 risk-based inspection (RBI) work process.

RBI Potential Savings Calculator

Create mechanical integrity (MI) program value rather than it being seen as a necessary cost to minimize.

Related Training

RBI/MI Overview

A high level overview introducing Mechanical Integrity and Risk Based Inspection

API 580 RBI Overview

What impact does Risk Based Inspection (RBI) have on my organization?

API 580 Training

Is your Risk Based Inspection (RBI) program aligned with the API 580 Recommended Practice? Are you ready for certification?

API 581 Overview

What's actually going on inside all of that fancy software? An introduction to the API 581 methodology.

API 581 Training

A deep dive into quantitative Risk Based Inspection (RBI) as outlined in API 581.

Related Knowledge

How to Incorporate the New PHMSA Underground Gas Storage Requirements

This is a practical approach to incorporating the new PHMSA gas well rules into your integrity program with the rest of your surface and subsurface assets.

Plant Management 101: Common Work Processes

A dysfunctionality found in many refineries, chemical plants, and other production facilities, is a lack of common asset management work processes.

Asset Value Management vs Asset Performance Management

A look at how the financial sector's concept of Asset Value Management can be applied to the petrochemical industry.

RBI Value: Both Transitioning And From The Start

A look at how RBI adds value whether you are just starting out or transitioning from a traditional methodology.

Managing Reliability of Ethane Crackers using DMR, RBI, and IOWs

How RBI, DMR, and IOW programs can be used to manage reliability of Ethane crackers.

Qualitative Risk Assessment of a Commercial Refrigeration System

A case study presenting the methods used to calculate qualitative risk for a critical refrigeration system and the results of the assessment.

Steam System Risk Mitigation Using Risk Based Inspection

The benefits of utilizing risk-based methodologies for the inspection programs of often overlooked utilities systems

Dynamic Risk - Mechanical Integrity

Things are always changing. Including your risk profile.

Hidden Benefits of Risk Based Inspection (RBI)

What are the hidden benefits of implementing Risk Based Inspection?

Proposed API 581 Inspection Plan Optimization Example

An example to compliment our earlier proposal for a risk analysis option that allows for individual damage mechanism risk calculation in API 581