Webinar: The Future of Mechanical Integrity
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Asset Performance Management (APM) Software
Asset Integrity Management
Ensure asset integrity and compliance by monitoring changing risk conditions with GE Digital's APM Integrity software
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New: Integrity Mobile
Integrity Mobile is designed to enable safer and more efficient field inspections. Reduce errors and lags with paper-based inspections, connect field and plant employees, and tie data collected in the field to better operations decisions. Available on both iOS and Android as an extension to the Integrity Management application.
Helping facilities stay contained and compliant
Enterprise integrity program
APM Mechanical Integrity, part of GE Digital's Asset Performance Management, equips organizations to enable a closed loop mechanical integrity program across the enterprise. This comprehensive inspection solution helps operators to reduce risk, lower inspection costs, and ensure regulatory compliance relative to their fixed assets.
Leveraging an integrated set of tools, APM Mechanical Integrity enables users to calculate risk and the remaining useful life of assets to generate, implement, and execute optimized inspection strategies while streamlining auditability and compliance governance. The solution also facilitates compliance with various Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements such as process hazard analysis, mechanical integrity, and management of change.
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Benefits of Asset Integrity Management
Integrate
Fully integrate compliance and integrity initiatives across an enterprise with corporate asset hierarchy and EAM system integration–resulting in higher asset availability and lower catastrophic incident probability.
Optimize
Develop and optimize inspection strategies through risk based inspection (RBI) methodologies (API RP 580, 581) and enable compliance with OSHA 1910.119 process safety management requirements and ISA/IEC safety standards.
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Automatically re-analyze integrity and safety risk, based on real-time data field information and intelligent actions executed on pre-defined conditions.
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Features of Mechanical Integrity
Risk based inspection (RBI)
Most inspection programs are mandated by regulatory agencies with the power to apply significant penalties for non-compliance. To improve cost-effectiveness, many organizations are turning to RBI as a preferred methodology. This RBI methodology is based on and has been certified as complying with American Petroleum Institute (API) standards 580 and 581. This capability supports the ability to assess the likelihood and consequences of failures to optimize inspection rigor based on overall risk. The visual surveillance and inspection of both fixed and linear assets is a critical element in assessing the current condition of the asset and avoiding equipment failures. RBI can be seamlessly integrated into inspection management and maintenance programs.
Inspection Management
Inspection management provides the ability to support large-scale inspection programs designed to comply with federal, state, and local requirements—including API standards. This capability 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. Also part of this capability is the ability to capture inspection data in the field using a mobile device. This enables users to employ the functionality of inspection data collection to complete required inspection checklists, capture images, and make recommendations in an on or off-line mode. Data collected while the device is offline is saved securely on the device until its reconnected and synchronized with APM.
Thickness monitoring
Effective thickness measurement activities are an essential component of a mechanical integrity program. This capability provides the ability to manage large-scale corrosion and thickness measurement programs for stationary equipment, such as pipelines, piping, vessels, exchangers, tanks, boilers, etc. Key elements of the thickness monitoring capability include the ability to calculate the minimum thickness required to safely operate the equipment, thickness measurement data management, and corrosion rate analysis, as well as next-inspection and retirement-data inspections. These calculated values can be seamlessly integrated back into the EAM/CMMS systems and other capabilities within APM.
3D Visualization
Through GE Digital’s partnership with Visionaize, APM Integrity applications such as Risk-based Inspection (RBI), Inspection Management & Thickness Monitoring now include enhanced 3D visualization capabilities for critical fixed assets in the plant.
The ability to have risk, corrosion & thickness data presented both digitally and graphically on the respective 3D models provides greater contextual and situational awareness to daily users such as inspectors, planners, technicians, and corrosion analysts. In addition to worker productivity improvements, 3D visualization also provides asset-intensive organizations a quicker means to identify risks, improve overall safety and compliance, and reduce asset downtime through better inspection and recovery planning.
Hazard analysis
Based on international standards, such as the IEC 61882 Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP Studies) - Application Guide, the hazard analysis capability is both a regulatory requirement as well as an integral part of an overall risk-management process—focused on identifying and assessing risks and managing the reduction of those risks. Also, hazard analysis is integrated with capabilities in the APM Strategy solution.
Management of change (MOC)
The MOC capability follows a systematic approach to delivering a change, taking into consideration aspects of operations which will or could be impacted because of the change. Using MOC, changes are undertaken as “change projects.” In a change project, changes are formally introduced, approved, and implemented as tasks.
MOC provides a flexible solution for creating and managing change projects, communicating changes to team members, and enforcing an approval system to provide accountability for the change. When a change is being implemented, it directly or indirectly has an impact on other families within APM. In MOC, users can associate a change project with records from other families in APM that are possibly impacted by the change. Such records are called "changed elements." For example, when the change involves replacing the existing pressure relief devices that were identified as independent protection layers, with a different manufacturer's device, the LOPA assessment with which the equipment is associated may be impacted. In this case, the affected LOPA record is a changed element and you can associate the LOPA record with the change project. In turn, provides organizations with a greater degree of auditability, which is essential in industries that require MOC as a PSM regulatory compliance requirement.
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