• To provide clear understanding of the key aspects of Risk Based Inspection, its advantages and limitations
• To provide a clear understanding of how it is linked to reliability-centered maintenance
• Understand how fitness-for-service assessment affects the Risk
• To show you how to develop a successful RBI program at your facility
• Provide you with the practical and effective methods you need to perform practical likelihood and consequence analysis
• Show you how to develop optimum Inspection intervals for individual equipment based on the assessment of the active degradation mechanisms

This Pioneers Risk Based Strategies for Inspection & Maintenance (RBI & RBM) training course combines presentation of the key principles, methods, and best practices and enforces the learnings with case studies and Question & Answer workshops to maximize the benefits to the participants. The comprehensive course notes and presentation material will provide valuable reference.

DAY 1

Course Objectives and Overview

• Significance of Inspection in Plant Integrity and Maintenance Costs

• • The Real Function of Inspection
  • Inspection Key Performance Indicators

• Common Inspection Strategies and Their Limitations
• Risk-Based Decision-Making Fundamentals and Tools

• • Risk Assessment – Probability of failure, consequences of failure
  • Risk Management – Avoidance, Mitigation
  • Risk Communication

• Understanding and Managing Risk

• • Principles Risk Assessment
  • Risk Assessment Elements
  • Qualitative, Semi-quantitative, and Quantitative Assessment

• Workshop 1- Illustrative Example of Risk Assessment

DAY 2

Risk Based Inspection (RBI)

• Definitions
• Evolution
• Key Elements of RBI
• Reasons for implementing RBI

• • Benefits and Limitations of using RBI
  • RBI as a part of plant integrity management
  • Economic Benefits

• API Risk-Based Inspection Methodology

• • API RP 580
  • API BRD 581 – Various levels of RBI Analyses

• Impact of RBI on Related API Codes, Standards, and Recommended Practices

• • API 510, 570 and 650
  • API 579 Fitness-For-Purpose

• API Risk Based Inspection Software
• Workshop 2 – Q&A on API RBI Methodology

DAY 3

Overview of API 571 – Recognition of Conditions Causing Deterioration of Failure

• Overview of over 60 damage mechanisms found in refineries
• Detailed discussion of some common damage mechanisms: Internal and external corrosion, brittle fracture, fatigue, SCC, HIC, internal and external corrosion
• Identification of Deterioration Mechanisms & Failure Modes

• • Active damage mechanisms in critical plant equipment
  • Inactive or “unlikely” mechanisms
  • Identification for assessment
  • Impact of simultaneous mechanisms

• Selection of Suitable Materials for Specific Deterioration Mechanisms
• Integrated Asset Management
  • Linking Risk Assessment, RBI, and RCM
  • Managing Risk Using RBI
• Workshop 3 – Case studies involving a number of equipment damage and failures, and learnings

DAY 4

Development of Inspection Plan (Based on RBI Risk Ranking)

• Inspection Planning Guidance
• Need for Some Speculative / Exploratory Inspection
• RBI Implementation
  • Essentials for Establishing a Successful RBI Program
  • The RBI Team – Recommended Structure and Mandate
• Developing Equipment and Piping Systems / Circuits Inventory
• Inspection History, Interpretation

• • Equipment Criticality Rating

• Equipment Data Base

• • Shared Database by RBI and RCM
  • Importance of Data Quality
  • Computerized Maintenance Management Systems

• Workshop 4 – Case Study: Risk-based categorization of equipment and failure modes

DAY 5

• Inspection Interval Optimization Based on Assessed Risk
• Evaluation of Inspection Results

• • Data Quality
  • Corrosion Rate Calculations
  • Remaining Life Calculations

• Fitness-For-Service Assessments
• Estimation of Consequences of Failures
• Workshop 5 – Case Study – Assessment of defects in critical equipment