Integrity & Inspection
Reliability & Asset Integrity
Senior reliability and asset integrity leadership for complex operating facilities. Capability includes building and optimizing maintenance, reliability and integrity systems, investigating major failures, extending asset life, and converting failure history and condition data into risk based maintenance and integrity decisions.
$500M+ coker fire collateral damage investigation
- UEI
- ZR3PJZEA7A21
- CAGE
- 174X8
- Independence
- Findings challenged before release
- Deployment
- Remote response within 24 hours
What This Discipline Covers
Scope of the technical capability.
Senior reliability and asset integrity leadership for complex operating facilities. Capability includes building and optimizing maintenance, reliability and integrity systems, investigating major failures, extending asset life, and converting failure history and condition data into risk based maintenance and integrity decisions.
- RBI and RBIM
- RCM
- FMEA and FMECA
- RCA and RCFA
- PM and PdM optimization
- Condition monitoring
- Asset criticality and risk ranking
- Maintenance strategy
- Equipment maintenance plans
- Bad actor elimination
- Asset integrity and fitness for service
- Life extension
- Reliability data and KPI systems
- Spares strategy
Problems The Technical Lead Solves
The questions this discipline is engaged to answer.
- 01
Recurring failures
- 02
Major loss investigations
- 03
Reliability program design and audit
- 04
Asset life extension
- 05
Maintenance strategy optimization
- 06
Integrity risk assessment
- 07
Bad actor elimination
- 08
RCA facilitation and corrective action governance
Equipment And Systems
Assets this Technical Lead has worked on directly.
- Pressure vessels
- Piping
- Heat exchangers
- Tanks
- Evaporators and concentrators
- Pumps
- Compressors
- Gas and steam turbines
- Fire water systems
- Process systems
Industries And Environments
Operating environments where this experience was built.
- Oil sands and upgrading
- Oil and gas
- Petrochemical and process
- Pulp and paper
- Power and cogeneration
Diagnostic And Investigation Methods
How the technical work is actually performed.
- Inspection planning and risk based inspection development
- Thickness, corrosion rate, and remaining life calculation
- Damage mechanism identification and screening
- Fitness for service evaluation
- Repair, alteration, and rerating review
- Inspection data management and CMMS integration
Codes And Standards
Frameworks applied to the analysis.
- API 510, 570, 653 and 580 or 581
- ASME BPVC Sections V and VIII
- ASME PCC-2 repair of pressure equipment
- API 579 fitness for service
Credentials And Qualification
The professional basis for this discipline.
- 01
API inspector certifications or equivalent recognized qualification
- 02
NDT qualification and oversight experience
- 03
Mechanical integrity program ownership in operating facilities
- 04
Turnaround and inspection campaign leadership
Scale And Breadth
Reported scale of professional exposure.
- 01
$500M+ coker fire collateral damage investigation
- 02
$200M brownfield business case supported by API 579 fitness for service and 20 year life extension assessment
- 03
87 MW cogeneration gas turbine repetitive outage investigation
- 04
$12M+ revenue loss coker vessel nozzle failure and fire investigation
Representative Professional Experience
Assignment types this discipline supports.
- 01
Development of a risk based inspection program for a pressure equipment population
- 02
Fitness for service assessment supporting continued operation of a degraded vessel
- 03
Investigation of accelerated corrosion and the process change that caused it
- 04
Independent review of inspection records supporting an asset transaction
Assignment descriptions are generalized to protect client confidentiality. Specific references can be discussed during scoping where permissions allow.
Multidisciplinary Interfaces
Disciplines this work commonly coordinates with.
- Mechanical & Failure Analysis
- Inspection & CMMS
- Vibration
- Machinery Engineering
- Process
- Controls
- Electrical
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