RBI Bulk What-If Analyses

About RBI Bulk What-If Analyses Creation

RBI bulk What-If Analyses creation is the process of creating What-If Analyses in bulk. These analyses are created on an analysis that is not archived. It is based on the associated process unit or Functional Location. The What-If Analyses allow you to duplicate a current analysis while changing certain input values to determine the risk of possible scenarios.

When to Create What-If Analyses in Bulk

What-If Analyses allow you to analyze hypothetical situations to determine how operational and procedural changes would impact the risk associated with a component's failure on a certain date. Bulk What-If Analysis creation is useful when you want to quantify the impact of a change to a Functional Location or process unit. These changes can include the implementation of risk mitigation strategies or maintenance.

Batches

While creating What-If Analyses, you select or create an Batch ID to group your analyses. You can filter analyses based on the batch in the RBI Bulk What-If workspace. The Batch ID that you select will be copied to the Scenario ID field of the What-If Analyses.

Access Analyses Pending What-If Creation

About This Task

Analyses that are available for What-If creation and are linked to active components that are on assets related to the given Functional Location or process unit.

Note: The Analyses for What-If creation are either RBI Criticality Analyses or RBI 581 Risk Analyses. You can choose the type of the analysis in the RBI Overview Preferences page under Application Settings by setting the Analysis Type Preference.

RBI PRD Criticality Analyses and RBI Pipeline Analyses are not supported.

Procedure

Access the Risk Based Inspection Overview page.
Select Actions > Bulk Create What-If Analyses.
The Bulk Create What-If Analyses workspace appears, displaying the Pending What-If Analysis Creation section with a list of analyses available for What-If creation.

Create Bulk What-If Analyses

Procedure

Access Analyses Pending What-If Creation.
In the Pending What-If Analysis Creation section, select the analyses for which you want to create What-If Analyses.
Select .
The Bulk Create What-If Analyses window appears.
In the Batch ID box:
- If you want to use an existing batch, select an existing Batch ID.
- If you want to create a new batch, select add caption, and enter a new scenario.
Note: The Batch ID you select is copied to the Scenario ID field. Also, the batch you select is saved as a user preference in your browser.
In the Plan Date box, enter a date.
Set any additional values you would like to copy to the what-if analysis in the Common Fields section.

Note: Any fields in the Common Fields section that are set to null will not be copied. If a default value is set in any of the Common Fields, it will be copied to the created what-if analysis.
Select Done.

Note: If you have selected an existing Batch ID, after you select Done, a window appears, stating that the batch already exists, asking if you want to continue.

The Created section appears, displaying a list of analyses that have been created. A <green check mark> appears, indicating that the analyses are created. In case of errors, <red warning icon> appears.
If you want to view the status of all the bulk What-If Analyses creation, in the Risk Based Inspection Overview page, select .
The Schedule Logs page appears, displaying a list of all the operations in APM that are in progress, along with the percentages of completion. You can also access a list of operations that have been successful or failed.

Add Additional Fields to be Copied to What-If Analyses

Procedure

Access the Datasheet Builder page for the RBI Criticality Analysis Family.
Add fields to What If Analysis Datasheet , by following the steps: Add Fields to a Datasheet.
Note:
- When what-if analyses are created, the additional fields will be processed in order of their location on the datasheet from top to bottom and left to right. If you have any fields which have dependencies on other fields, the dependencies will need to come before the field on the datasheet.
- Datasheet will be displayed when Creating Bulk What-if Analyses.

Delete Bulk What-If Analyses

Procedure

Access Analyses Pending What-If Creation.
Select Created.
The Created section appears.
Next to each analysis that you want to delete, select the check box.

Tip: For optimal performance, we recommend that you want to delete one or more selected analyses.
Select Yes.
The selected analyses are deleted.

Export Bulk What-If Analyses

About This Task

Using the RBI Export functionality, you can export one or more analyses and related data from the Bulk What-If workspace. You can then review the analyses and related data in bulk, and then import it back into APM.

To facilitate this functionality, data is exported to a file in the RBI 580 Data Loader format to allow for importing and updating the data.

Note: The RBI 580 Data Loader file that is exported will contain the Asset, Component, Consequence Evaluation, and Degradation Mechanism Evaluation data related to the analyses you select to export.

To facilitate this functionality, data is exported to a file in the RBI 581 Data Loader format to allow for importing and updating the data.

Note: The RBI 581 Data Loader file that is exported will contain the Asset, Component, Consequence Evaluation, and Degradation Mechanism Evaluation data related to the analyses you select to export.

Procedure

Access Analyses Pending What-If Creation.
Select Created.
The Created section appears.
Tip: The analyses that appear in the Created section are filtered by Batch ID. The Batch ID that appears by default is the one you selected while creating analyses. This ID is also set as the default user preference in your browser. You can select a batch using the Batch ID box in the Create What-If Analyses workspace. To access all analyses, select the blank value in the Batch ID box.
Next to each analysis that you want to export, select the check box.
Select .
A message appears, asking you to confirm that you want to export one or more analyses.
Select Yes.
The selected analyses are exported to an Excel spreadsheet.
Note:
- The RBI 580 Data Loader Excel worksheet that is exported includes all the fields available in the respective family's default datasheet, except the fields that are considered calculated, system populated, or informational fields.
- The RBI 581 Data Loader Excel worksheet that is exported includes all the fields available in the respective family's default datasheet, except the fields that are considered calculated, system populated, or informational fields.
- The fields values in the Excel worksheet considers the culture settings and unit of measure conversion set of the logged-in user.

Calculate Bulk What-If Analyses

Procedure

Access Analyses Pending What-If Creation.
Select Created.
The Created section appears.
Tip: The analyses that appear in the Created section are filtered by Batch ID. The Batch ID that appears by default is the one you selected while creating analyses. This ID is also set as the default user preference in your browser. You can select a batch using the Batch ID box in the Create What-If Analyses workspace. To access all analyses, select the blank value in the Batch ID box.
Next to each analysis that you want to export, select the check box.
Select .
The Analysis Calculation window appears, displaying the calculation progress and a log with error details.
Tip: After the calculation is complete:
- To view the log details of all the calculated analyses, select View Complete Log.
- To view the log details for a single analysis, select the analysis in the list.
If you want to view the status of all the bulk What-If Analyses creation, in the Risk Based Inspection Overview page, select .
The Schedule Logs page appears, displaying a list of all the operations in APM that are in progress, along with the percentages of completion. You can also access a list of operations that have been successful or failed.

Finalize Risk for What-If Analyses

Before You Begin

Calculate the What-If Analyses for which you want to finalize the risk.

Procedure

Access Analyses Pending What-If Creation.
Select Created.
The Created section appears.
Tip: The analyses that appear in the Created section are filtered by Batch ID. The Batch ID that appears by default is the one you selected while creating analyses. This ID is also set as the default user preference in your browser. You can select a batch using the Batch ID box in the Create What-If Analyses workspace. To access all analyses, select the blank value in the Batch ID box.
Next to each analysis for which you want to finalize risk, select the check box.
Select <finalize-risk-icon>.
A message appears, asking you to confirm that you want to finalize risk for the selected analyses.
Note: You can only select 100 Analyses to finalize risk at one time. If you select more than 100 Analyses, a warning message will be displayed when you select Finalize Risk button.
Select Yes.
Risk is finalized for the selected analyses and they are moved to the Risk Completed state.
Note: If an Inspection Plan does not exist on the parent asset of the analyses and the Use Alternative Inspection Plan option is set to false, a new Inspection Plan is created and linked to the asset after the analysis is moved to the Risk Completed state.
The Active section appears, displaying a list of active What-If Analyses for the selected batch.

Access Active What-If Analyses

About This Task

Active What-If Analyses are RBI Analyses for RBI Components linked to RBI Assets. These analyses were created during the bulk What-If process, and they are not in the Created or Archived state.

Procedure

Access Analyses Pending What-If Creation.
Select Active.
The Active section appears, displaying a list of active analyses and a count of associated RBI Recommendations.

Generate Recommendations for Active What-If Analyses

Procedure

Access Analyses Pending What-If Creation.
Select Active.
The Active section appears.
Next to each analysis for which you want to generate Recommendations, select the check box.
Tip:
- You can generate recommendations for all the listed analyses in the selected batch by selecting when all check boxes in the first column of the table are cleared. If you select the check box in the first row of the table, recommendations are generated for the analyses that appear in the current page in the Active section (up to 100 analyses can be displayed in a page).
- The Recommendations column contains a count of recommendations that are directly linked to the analysis. Consolidated recommendations (CREC) are excluded from this count.
Select .
The Confirm Bulk Generate Recommendations window appears, asking if you want to generate recommendations (and duplicate recommendations if recommendations have already been generated).
Select Yes.
The Generate Recommendations window appears, asking if you want to consolidate recommendations for each Degradation Mechanism and Task Type.
Tip: If you choose to consolidate recommendations, the recommendations generated during this process will be consolidated with the existing recommendations. For more information, refer to About Consolidating RBI Recommendations.
Select Yes.
The recommendations are generated. The Recommendation Generation window appears, displaying the progress and number of Recommendations generated and consolidated of each asset.
Note: You can close the Recommendation Generation window before the operation is complete. You can view the progress using Schedule Logs.
Select Close.
If you want to view the status of bulk What-If Analyses creation, in the Risk Based Inspection Overview page, select .
The Schedule Logs page appears, displaying a list of all the operations in APM that are in progress, along with the percentages of completion. You can also access a list of operations that have been successful or failed.

Results

Generated recommendations are linked to the Inspection Plan of the related RBI Asset.

Note:

You can use the Inspection Plan Summary page to approve the Inspection Plan and implement recommendations.
In the RBI Global Preference settings, if the Enable Recommendation To be Generated at Created State check box is selected, recommendations will not be linked to the Inspection Plan until the related analysis is moved to the Risk Complete state and the Inspection Plan is generated.