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Asset Integrity Management - Mechanical Integrity

Reduce risk, optimize inspection strategies, and streamline compliance for static equipment with APM Mechanical Integrity software.

Mechanical Integrity

Overview

Helping Facilities Stay Contained and Compliant

APM Mechanical Integrity, part of GE Vernova’s Asset Performance Management (APM), equips organizations with an integrated set of tools to enable a closed loop mechanical integrity program across the enterprise. The solution allows users to:
  • Rank equipment based on risk using globally accepted methodologies (RBI 580, 581)
  • Detect compliance gaps and automate time-based inspection planning
  • Store thickness readings and carry out detailed corrosion analysis
  • Establish IOW monitoring policies to determine process excursions
  • Integrate mechanical integrity and inspection initiatives across an enterprise
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APM Mechanical Integrity Outcomes

• Reduce overall risk exposure of static assets in your facility
• Lower EH&S incident probability and enhance safety by streamlining data collection, and improving inspection accuracy
• Reduce equipment failures with proactive damage mechanism evaluations
• Lower inspection costs by using a risk-based inspection approach to maintenance
• Improve worker productivity with mobile inspections and contextual visualization
• Increase asset availability by reacting more quickly to changing process conditions
• Optimize repairs and replacements by using thickness monitoring and corrosion analysis tools

Customer Story

Learn how OQ saved $59M by conducting risk-based inspection (RBI) and initiating Integrity Operating Windows (IOWs) for its downstream assets.

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2024 Verdantix Asset Performance Management Green Quadrant Report

GE Vernova’s APM Mechanical Integrity application received the highest rating (3.0/3.0) amongst all the other APM vendors in the latest Verdantix Green Quadrant Report.

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Key Features in APM Mechanical Integrity

• Risk Based Inspection (RBI): Assess the likelihood and consequences of failures to optimize inspection rigor based on overall risk.
• Inspection Management: Allows asset owners and operators to manage inspection plans on a variety of asset classes, document the condition of the asset, and track inspection recommendations to closure.
• Thickness Monitoring: Provides users the ability to calculate the minimum thickness required to safely operate the equipment, thickness measurement data management, corrosion rate analysis, as well as next-inspection and retirement-data inspections.
• Compliance Management: Provides users the ability to track when equipment should be inspected to comply with standards set by regional regulatory bodies.

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What is asset integrity management services?
In the energy sector, asset integrity management is synonymous with optimizing a Mechanical Integrity (MI) program. This includes the management of critical process equipment – to ensure it is designed and installed correctly and operated and maintained properly. Services could encompass software and digital tools such as Risk-Based Inspection (RBI), Inspection Management (IM), and Thickness Monitoring (TM) to ensure that static assets in the facility achieve their desired performance in a safe and reliable manner.
How to measure asset integrity?
RBI is a methodology that is compliant with American Petroleum Institute (API) standards and can be used to measure asset integrity. RBI supports the ability to assess the likelihood and consequences of failures and to optimize inspection rigor based on overall risk. As a starting point, users can utilize either a qualitative/semi-quantitative (RBI-580) or quantitative (RBI-581) risk engine to calculate a risk value associated with their static asset. Subsequently, RBI data can be seamlessly integrated into inspection management and maintenance programs to avoid equipment failures and to ensure that the current condition of the asset is documented.
What is an example of asset integrity?
User operators that operate a high volume of pressurized equipment such as piping systems, vessels, exchangers, tanks, and boilers, are susceptible to Loss of Pressure Containment (LOPC), leaks, and corrosion, all of which can be detrimental to their bottom line. By equipping organizations with an integrated set of software tools, they can accurately collect data from the field, understand risk for static assets and ensure that asset inspection strategies are optimized to an ALARP (as low as reasonably possible) risk level. Additionally, streamlining auditability and avoiding penalties for non-compliance is a key success metric for asset integrity.
What are the goals of asset integrity?
Listed below are some of the goals for asset integrity management;

1) Calculate risk levels of static assets in the facility
2) Reanalyze integrity and safety risk based on real time field data collection
3) Implement and execute optimized inspection strategies (manage inspection plans on a variety of asset classes, document the condition of the asset, and track inspection recommendations to closure)
4) Calculate the remaining life based on the minimum thickness required to safely operate static assets
5) Identify areas of corrosion or erosion that can compromise the equipment's integrity
6) Maximize worker/operator safety in hazardous environments
7) Integrate compliance and integrity initiatives across an enterprise

Overall, the above goals tie-in to the main objectives of reducing risks, lowering inspection costs, and managing compliance.
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