About the Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 580 Data Loader

Using the Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 580 Data Loader, you can implement Risk Based Inspection when you have RBI data in a legacy system, which is not supported by GE Digital APM. To import data using the Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 580 Data Loader, GE Digital provides an Excel template, RBI_580_Data_Loader.xlsx, which supports baseline Risk Based Inspection GE Digital APM. You must export your legacy system so that the data can be used to populate the template. The data from the template will then be imported into GE Digital APM using the Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 580 Data Loader.

Note: The Excel template is referred to throughout this documentation as the data loader workbook.

The data loader workbook can be used in the following scenarios:

Create or update components
Create analyses
Loading components and risk analysis data into GE Digital APM so that you can retain visibility into the analysis details and calculations, and generate recommendations.
Calculate risk, probability, and consequence of failure, and then utilize the Inspection Planning feature to mitigate the risk by the plan date.

After importing the data, the Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 580 Data Loader creates the following records in GE Digital APM:

Criticality Calculator RBI Component
RBI Criticality Analysis
Criticality Consequence Evaluation
Criticality Env. Crack. Deg. Mech. Eval.
Criticality Ext. Corr. Deg. Mech. Eval.
Criticality Int. Corr. Deg. Mech. Eval.
Criticality Other Damage Mech. Eval.
Criticality Custom DME
RBI Degradation Mechanisms

The data on the (Picklist) worksheet is not loaded when you load data using the Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 580 Data Loader.

Note: This data loader workbook is not backward compatible to earlier versions of GE Digital APM.