Oil Refinery
Risk-Based Inspection (RBI)'s Importance for Oil Refinery Inspection and Maintenance Scheduling
With Visions Enterprise, our Oil Refinery clients utilize risk, rather than time, as the basis for prioritizing and scheduling stationary equipment maintenance and inspections at their plants. Visions Enterprise has ensured that these maintenance and inspection scopes are completed at the most optimal intervals and using the most appropriate methods. This can be determined individually for each of the refineries' equipment components.
The dilemma addressed by Risk Based Inspection (RBI) is: why inspect all pieces of equipment on the same regular basis, when the equipment has such differing risks of failure? RBI encourages inspecting at a frequency based on equipment's particular probability of failure.
With Visions Enterprise's RBI methodology, the likelihood of failure and the probable consequences of that particular failure are determined. Then an inspection and maintenance schedule based on this information is established. For example, a process plant will then have the flexibility to conduct inspections based on a scientific analysis of the risk involved, not on a yearly cycle. Savings are substantial while industry regulatory and insurance requirements are still met.
Visions Enterprise can build a maintenance and inspection schedule to perfectly match your refinery's specifications and requirements.
Protect your High-Cost Refinery Assets!
Visions Enterprise offers real benefits in terms of reduced lifecycle costs and improved oil refinery equipment performance and efficiency.
Our expertise in asset management, risk assessment, condition monitoring, equipment life prediction and failure analysis optimises the life cycle and performance of high-cost assets in the oil refinery industry.
Visions Enterprise and its RBI foundation provides the capability to efficiently factor safety, environmental, business and reliability considerations into the decision-making process thereby providing better focus of limited resources and improving the results of equipment run, replace and repair decisions.
Visions Enterprise can be Custom-Tailored for your Refinery!
Visions Enterprise can be modified to meet your specific oil refinery requirements. We can therefore develop specific user models which can either be site specific or process specific.
Metegrity works with the client on a project-wide asset risk audit. Refinery equipment is individually assessed. Risk mitigation measures are signalled and selected to meet inspection frequency targets and optimum inspection intervals are obtained.
Other Benefits of Visions Enterprise
- User-friendly software that interfaces with existing inspection data management systems
- Database can be regularly updated with changing conditions
- Onscreen guidance with formulating the consequences of failure based on input
- Improved jobsite safety
- Increased equipment availability
- Fully auditable output - acceptability to insurers/regulators