Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) and Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM) in Asset Integrity Management
Course Overview
This 5-day comprehensive training course equips participants with the knowledge and practical skills to implement Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) methodologies using API 580/581 standards for effective asset integrity management. Through workshops, case studies, and practical exercises, the course bridges theoretical risk concepts with real-world applications, ensuring participants are ready to implement RBI programs within their organizations and optimize inspection effectiveness while managing costs.
Why Attend
- Optimize inspection strategies and reduce unnecessary maintenance costs
- Improve plant integrity management through risk-based decision making
- Master API 580/581 RBI methodologies and implementation
- Enhance safety and compliance with internationally recognized standards
- Develop skills in damage mechanism identification and assessment
- Network with peers and instructors with extensive industry experience
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Apply risk assessment principles to inspection planning and asset management
- Implement API 580/581 RBI methodologies at different levels of analysis
- Identify and assess damage mechanisms using API 571 guidance
- Develop risk-based inspection plans and optimize inspection intervals
- Evaluate inspection results and calculate remaining equipment life
- Integrate RBI with other asset management strategies (RCM, FFS)
- Establish and manage successful RBI programs within organizations
Course Content
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
- 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 Optimization and Assessment
- 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
Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for professionals responsible for asset integrity and inspection management. A basic understanding of process equipment and inspection methods is helpful, but not essential. Fundamental concepts will be covered during the course.
- Inspection and integrity engineers
- Asset and reliability managers
- Plant and maintenance engineers
- Risk assessment specialists
- Materials and corrosion engineers
- Operations and safety personnel
- Consultants and regulators in process industries
A basic understanding of corrosion principles and oil and gas operations is helpful, but not essential. Fundamental concepts will be covered during the course.
Included Materials
- Downloadable course slides (PDF)
- API 580/581 implementation guidelines and examples
- Damage mechanism identification charts (API 571)
- Risk assessment templates and worksheets
- Case study materials and solutions
Delivered by Specialists
The course is delivered by experienced practitioners in risk-based inspection and asset integrity management, with backgrounds spanning industry implementation of RBI programs across refineries, petrochemicals, and process plants, academic research in reliability and risk assessment, and consultancy experience in API 580/581 methodologies and damage mechanism assessment. The instructors ensure content is practical, applied, and immediately relevant to professional practice in asset integrity management.
Key Benefits
- Master API 580/581 Risk-Based Inspection methodologies
- Develop practical skills in risk assessment and management
- Learn to optimize inspection intervals and reduce costs
- Gain expertise in damage mechanism identification (API 571)
- Build competency in RBI program implementation and management
- Improve plant integrity management through risk-based decision making
- Enhance safety and compliance with internationally recognized standards
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