About Global Preferences

The Global Preference settings for Risk Based Inspection contains items for the following settings:

• Recommendation Creation Enabled: If you select this check box, you can create RBI Recommendation records in RBI. By default, this check box is selected. If you want to recommend actions and manage mitigated risk in ASM, you should modify the baseline configuration by clearing this check box.

• Enable Recommendations to be Generated at Created State: Ideally, you must generate Recommendations only for analyses in Risk Completed state. If, however, you want to generate Recommendations for analyses in Created state, you must select this check box.

  If you select this check box:

  • You can create Recommendations for an analysis in the Created state.
  • You cannot create Recommendations for an analysis in the Risk Completed state.

  By default, this check box is cleared. You can select it only if the Recommendation Creation Enabled check box is selected.

• Allow Override of Calculated Unmitigated Risk Values: By default, the unmitigated risk is calculated automatically and displayed on a Degradation Mechanism datasheet, and you cannot modify this value. If, however, you use a custom calculator to calculate unmitigated risk and display it on the Risk Matrix, and you want users to be able to modify the calculated unmitigated risk, then you must select this check box.

• Consider Half-Life when Determining Inspection Task Interval: This setting determines how the Desired Interval field in Inspection Tasks is populated.

  You must select this check box if:

  • You have created an Asset Corrosion Analysis for an Asset that you analyze in RBI.
  • You want additional values to be considered when determining the desired interval for Inspection Tasks that are created from RBI Recommendations associated with Criticality Calculator Internal Corrosion.

  You can select this check box only if the Thickness Monitoring license is active. By default, this check box is cleared.

• RBI Overview Graph Preference: This setting allows you to specify which types of analyses should be used to plot risk values on the graphs that appear in the Asset Overview, Component Overview, and Corrosion Loop Overview sections in RBI. You can select one of the following values in the drop-down list box:
  • RBI 580: If you select this value, the risk values of only RBI Criticality Analyses, RBI PRD Criticality Analyses, and RBI Pipeline Analyses are plotted.
  • RBI 581: If you select this value, the risk values of only RBI 581 Risk Analyses are plotted.
  • 580 and 581: If you select this value, the risk values of all types of analyses in RBI are plotted.

• Evaluate all RBI 581 Risk Targets: This setting allows you to enable or disable Evaluation of All Risk Targets. When you enable the Evaluation of All Risk Targets feature and calculate an RBI 581 analysis, the Safety Health and Environmental (SHE) Risk, the Financial Risk, and the Damage Factor targets are evaluated to determine a new value in the Target Inspection Date field. The Target Inspection Date field is then used to determine the value in the Driving Risk Target field, and the value for Driving Risk Target field is set to the risk target that has the most conservative Target Inspection Date value. The resulting target and Target Inspection Date are also used to determine mitigation of risk.

• RBI Evergreening Preference: This setting allows you to select the type of analyses that should be used for evergreening.