Risk Based Inspection
Benefits of Risk-Based Inspection in Managing Inspection and Maintenance Scheduling.
Visions Enterprise's effectiveness is in large part due to its using Risk Based Inspection (RBI) principles as the basis for prioritizing and managing the efforts of inspection and maintenance programs.
RBI provides a methodology for determining the optimum combination of equipment inspection methods, scopes and frequencies. With the risk factor determined for each component of a company's equipment, this information is then utilized to optimize and pinpoint the amounts and locations of subsequent inspections and maintenance processes. Inspection efforts can be concentrated on documented "problem areas" and inspection scopes reduced on more benign areas without affecting the plant's integrity and production.
The end result of Visions Enterprise's RBI-based solutions is a systematic, logical, documented, repeatable method of determining the scope and frequency of equipment inspection. Simultaneous benefits include improved safety, reliability and compliance with applicable Codes, Standards and Regulations. Extended intervals between planned outages, increased plant availability and extended plant and equipment life are other gains enjoyed.
Manage and Trend Equipment Life while Avoiding "Surprises"
Visions Enterprise's unique "Risk Assessment Module" analyzes inspection, design and process data to determine areas of over-inspection and inadequate or deficient inspection methods. With this risk-based inspection approach, inspectors can target this information to optimize the scope, frequencies and locations of future thickness surveys and visual inspections.
In addition, Visions-Enterprise is a user-friendly software system that has automatic forecasting elements and efficiently logs, processes and displays the data and results. The complete program results in documented, real-time cost savings and produces a healthy return on investment.
Companies that have integrated Visions Enterprise into their Inspection Programs are able to consider predictive or preventative equipment failures and have vastly reduced their amount of "surprises."
Based on giving careful consideration to clients' needs, best and next practices, Visions Enterprise is revolutionary in the market. It is unique from its competitors in its ability to provide information on assets that will maximize their performance and minimize costs throughout asset lifecycles in an integrated and collaborative manner. Currently, there are no other integrated systems capable of achieving this.
Implementing Risk-Based Inspection Principles in your Process Plant
Visions Enterprise combines state-of-the-art information technology with Enterprise systems and risk-based inspection principles. It integrates asset information from construction through to operations and improves asset condition monitoring, analysis and reporting. More than just software, Visions Enterprise is provided as a package together with consulting, training, implementation and support services.
Visions can maintain information on equipment from all facilities within an Enterprise system capable of communicating effectively with the clients' own ERP's. It has pre-defined RBI configurations which can be custom-tailored to fit your company's specific strategies and requirements.
Visions-Enterprise is a totally dynamic program: risks are updated after inspections, changes to process conditions or even if new information becomes available. Any of the above may result in a change in inspection frequencies or changes to the inspection scopes.
The methods used to determine the inspection intervals and inspection scopes are documented and repeatable. This is important with National Board Owner/User Inspection Programs, which are subject to audits by the Regulatory Authorities. This is also documented 'due diligence' which may be required in the future.