RBI Inspection Auto-Selection Criteria Records

RBI Inspection Auto-Selection Criteria records store details about the criteria that must be used to assign Inspections automatically to a Damage Mechanism Evaluation (DME). This topic provides an alphabetical list and description of the fields that exist for the RBI Inspection Auto-Selection Criteria family. The information in the table reflects the baseline state and behavior of these fields.

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Field

Data Type

Description

Behavior and Usage

Analysis Family

Character

The type of the analysis for which Inspections must be automatically assigned to the DME.

The value in this field is RBI 581 Risk Analysis. You cannot modify this value.

Degradation Mechanism

Character

The DM that is related to the analysis.

If you create, duplicate, or apply an RBI 581 Risk Analysis, and if the analysis is linked to the DM specified in this field, then Inspections linked to the same DM are automatically assigned to the DME based on the criteria in this record.

If this field is blank, all the DMs related to the DME specified in the DM Methodology and Equivalent DM Methodology are considered while assigning Inspections to the DME.

DM Methodology

Character

The Degradation Mechanism Evaluation (DME) record to which the DM belongs.

Inspections that must be assigned to a DME are filtered based on the values in the DM Methodology and Equivalent DM Methodology fields.

Equivalent DM Methodology

Character

The equivalent (or related) DME that is associated with the DME specified in the DM Methodology field.

This field is disabled and populated based on the value in the DM Methodology field as follows:

DM Methodology	Equivalent DM Methodology
RBI 581 Cracking Damage Evaluation	Criticality Env. Crack. Deg. Mech. Eval.
RBI 581 External Cracking Damage Evaluation	N/A
RBI 581 External Damage Evaluation	Criticality Ext. Corr. Deg. Mech. Eval.
RBI 581 Thinning and Lining Evaluation	Criticality Int. Corr. Deg. Mech. Eval.

Years of Inspection History

Numeric

The duration, in years, that should be considered while assigning Inspections to a DME. If an Inspection is completed before the duration specified in this field, it is not assigned to the DME.

If the difference between the date on which the analysis is created and the value in the Completion Date field in an Inspection is greater than the value in this field, then the Inspection is not assigned to the DME.