RBI Inspection Plans

About Inspection Plans

An Inspection Plan allows you to view, manage, approve, and implement all RBI Recommended Actions related to an Asset. Inspection Plans are created for RBI Assets when one of the related components has an analysis that is moved to the Risk Completed state. When a user generates recommendations for RBI Analyses, the RBI Recommended Actions are added to Inspection Plans. An RBI Analyst can perform actions like supersede, mark as not required, or delete RBI Recommended Actions before approving the inspection plan.

After an Inspection Plan is approved, organizations can decide if they want to implement the approved RBI Recommended Actions through Inspection Plan or Asset Strategy Management. If an organization decides to implement the approved Recommended Actions through Inspection Plan, RBI Analysts can create a new inspection task or link an existing task to a Recommended Action. The Inspection Plan also displays the existing inspection tasks for an asset.

States of an Inspection Plan

Proposed

When an Inspection Plan is created, it will be in the Proposed state. An Inspection Plan is created for an RBI Asset when one of the related components has an analysis that is moved to the Risk Completed state. For Assets with multiple RBI Components, Inspection Plans are created when you finalize risk of an analysis for a single component.

Approved

After an analyst has reviewed all the Recommended Actions in an Inspection Plan, they can approve the Inspection Plan by transitioning it to the Approved state. This will also create or update the asset strategy for the Asset automatically, by creating or updating any Risks and Actions sourced from RBI. After an Inspection Plan is approved, all the related RBI Recommended Actions will move to the Approved state. An analyst can approve the Inspection Plan if all the RBI Components related to the asset have at least one active RBI Analysis.

Modified

An Inspection Plan is modified whenever reassessment or evergreening of RBI is done for the Asset. If the Inspection Plan is in the Approved state, and an analyst finalizes the risk for an analysis of an RBI Component, the Inspection Plan state is changed to Modified. When the state of an Inspection Plan is changed from Approved to Modified, APM creates an Inspection Plan history record containing a snapshot of the Recommended Actions associated with the approved plan along with its implementation history.

About Inspection Plan Approval

An MI Inspection Plan Approver can approve Inspection Plans. Approving an Inspection Plan also integrates the related asset with Asset Strategy Manager (ASM). When an Inspection Plan is approved:
  • Degradation Mechanisms (DMs) are used to create Risks in ASM.
  • Recommendations are used to create Actions.

For more information on ASM Integration, see About Asset Strategy Management (ASM) Integration.

When an Inspection Plan is in the Approved state, users can create or link Inspection Tasks to the related RBI Recommendations.

If the MI RBI Analyst transitions another RBI Criticality Analysis for an RBI Component linked to the asset related to the Inspection Plan to the Risk Completed state, the Inspection Plan will be moved to the Modified state.

An MI Inspection Plan Approver or MI Compliance Analyst can then delete, mark as not required, or supersede Compliance Recommendations.

Each time the Inspection Plan is changed from the Approved to Modified state, an Inspection Plan Revision record is created and linked to the existing Inspection Plan. For each existing RBI Recommendation record, a Recommendation Revision record is created and linked to the Inspection Plan Revision.

Additionally, the MI Inspection Plan Approver must change the state of the Inspection Plan to Approved before linking more Inspection Tasks to the plan.

About Modifying an Inspection Plan

An MI RBI Analyst can modify an Inspection Plan associated with an Asset by changing the state of an RBI Criticality Analysis for an RBI Component that is linked to the Asset to the Risk Completed state. This will archive the previous Risk Completed Analysis and its related RBI Recommendations. The archived RBI Recommendations will be unlinked from the Inspection Plan.

When an analyst modifies an Inspection Plan by finalizing the risk of an analysis for an RBI Component:
  • Any existing RBI Recommendations on the active analysis of the component are unlinked from the Inspection Plan and moved to the Archived state.
    Note: If the parent asset has multiple components, the RBI Recommendations linked to the other components are unaffected and remain in the Approved state.
  • The Inspection Tasks previously linked to the recommendations are unlinked from the recommendations. However, the tasks remain linked to the asset.
  • If RBI Recommendations are created or generated, the resulting recommendations populate the Inspection Plan.
  • If the Inspection Plan is in the Approved State:
    • The plan is moved from the Approved to Modified state.
    • An Inspection Plan Revision record is created and linked to the existing Inspection Plan.
    • For each existing recommendation record linked to the Inspection Plan, a Recommendation Revision record is created and linked to the Inspection Plan Revision.
Note: The alternative inspection plan can be modified manually. For more information, refer to Modify an Alternative Inspection Plan.

Access an Inspection Plan

You can access an Inspection Plan for an asset, component, and RBI Criticality Analysis.

Procedure

  1. Access the Asset Summary workspace for the asset for which you want to access the Inspection Plan.
    The Asset Summary workspace appears.
    Note: You can also access the related Inspection Plan from a component and Criticality Analysis.
  2. Select the Inspection Plan link.
    The Inspection Plan workspace appears.
    Note: If an Inspection Plan does not exist, a message stating so appears. Inspection Plans are created and linked to an asset when an analysis for at least one associated component is moved to the Risk Completed state. When using the alternative Inspection plan, the Inspection Plan is created by selecting the Create Inspection Plan option.

Delete an Inspection Plan

You can delete Inspection Plans that are obsolete or unnecessary.

Before You Begin

You must have one of the following Security Roles:
  • MI Inspection Plan Approver
  • MI Compliance Analyst

Procedure

  1. Access the Inspection Plan that you want to delete.
  2. In the Inspection Plan page, select .
    The Confirm Delete window appears, asking you to confirm that you want to delete the Inspection Plan.
  3. Select Yes.
    The Inspection Plan is deleted.
    Note: An Inspection Plan cannot be deleted if it has recommendations. If the field Use Alternative Inspection Plan preference is set to true, the recommendations must be removed through record manager.

Approve an Inspection Plan

Any user with the MI Inspection Plan Approver Security Role can move an Inspection Plan to the Approved state. After the Inspection Plan is approved, recommendations can be implemented as tasks.

About This Task

When an Inspection Plan is in the Approved state, you can create new Inspection Tasks or link existing Inspection Tasks to the related recommendations. The Inspection Tasks are transferred to the Inspection Management module.
Note:

Approving an Alternative Inspection Plan will automatically implement tasks. For more information, refer to Approve an Alternative Inspection Plan.

Procedure

  1. Access the Inspection Plan that you want to approve.
  2. In the Proposed box, select Approve, and then select Done.
    A message appears, stating that the Inspection Plan has been approved.
    Note:
    • After you approve an Inspection Plan, you cannot delete, supersede, or designate recommendations as Not Required. You must first move them to the Modified state.
    • While the Inspection Plan is being modified, you cannot delete, supersede, or designate recommendations as Not Required.

About Alternative Inspection Plans

The APM provides an Alternative Inspection Plan functionality to enhance usability and flexibility of the existing Inspection Plan. An Alternative Inspection Plan is created manually, when an RBI Analyst analyzes and finalizes the risk for each component linked to the RBI Asset.

The Inspection Plan consists of the following sections:
  • Inspection Plan- Contains the information about the Inspection Plan.
  • Inspection Plan Details- Contains the inspection strategies, which are needed to mitigate the damage mechanism that is identified during the RBI analysis.
The inspection strategies are generated automatically for all damage mechanisms in the analyses, based on the following policy content configured in RBI Strategy Mapping Configuration and Detail mappings:
  • RBI 581 Env Cracking Insp Recommendation
  • RBI 581 External Damage Inspection Recommendation
  • RBI 581 Tank Bottom Insp Recommendation
  • RBI 581 Tank Shell Ext Corrosion Recommendation
  • RBI 581 Tank Shell Int Corrosion Recommendation
  • RBI 581 Thinning and Lining Insp Recommendation

The policy content returns inspection strategy records which are mapped to Inspection Plan Detail Records.

Inspection Plan Detail FieldInspection Strategy FieldBehavior and Usage
Task TypeInspection Task TypeThe picklist will be populated with all Inspection Task Types that are valid for the given Degradation Mechanism based on the Degradation Mechanism Strategy family.
Highest Level of InspectionInspection Confidence

The Inspection Confidence is converted to a Level of Inspection Category (A - E) as follows:

Highest Level of InspectionConfidence
AHighly Effective
BUsually Effective
CFairly Effective
DPoorly Effective
EIneffective
ExtentInspection ExtentThe picklist will be populated with all the Extents that are valid for the selected Task Type and given Degradation Mechanism based on the Degradation Mechanism Strategy family.
Inspection ScopeRecommended Inspection ScopeThe picklist will be populated with the Recommended Inspection Scope for the selected Task Type, Extent, Inspection Confidence, and given Degradation Mechanism based on the Degradation Mechanism Strategy family.

To view the Inspection Strategies that are valid for a Degradation Mechanism you can run the following query and select the Degradation Mechanism:

SELECT [MI_DEGMECH_STRAT].[MI_DEGMECH_STRAT_DM_C] "Degradation Mechanism"
, [MI_DEGMECH_STRAT].[MI_DEGMECH_STRAT_ID_C] "Inspection Strategy ID"
, [MI_INSP_STRAT].[MI_INSP_STRAT_TASK_TYPE_C] "Inspection Task Type"
, [MI_INSP_STRAT].[MI_INSP_STRAT_CONF_C] "Inspection Confidence"
, [MI_INSP_STRAT].[MI_INSP_STRAT_EXTENT_C] "Inspection Extent"
, [MI_INSP_STRAT].[MI_INSP_STRAT_REC_SCOPE_T] "Recommended Inspection Scope"
, [MI_INSP_STRAT].[MI_INSP_STRAT_REC_INT_N] "Recommended Interval"
FROM [MI_DEGMECH_STRAT] JOIN [MI_INSP_STRAT]
ON [MI_DEGMECH_STRAT].[MI_DEGMECH_STRAT_ID_C] = [MI_INSP_STRAT].[MI_INSP_STRAT_ID_C]
WHERE [MI_DEGMECH_STRAT].[MI_DEGMECH_STRAT_DM_C] = (? :s :id=DM :table='MI_DEGRADATION_MECHANISM_TYPES')

In the Alternative Inspection Plan, you can manually add the strategies to mitigate any additional risk for damage mechanisms.

Note: In contrast to Generated Recommended Actions on Inspection Plans, all Inspection Plan Details are recurring by default on Alternative Inspection Plans.

After adding strategies to the Inspection Plan, RBI Analysts can review the implementation strategies such as target inspection date, interval, and interval scope. The Inspection Plan Details display the proposed next date for all the inspection strategies to help with the implementation cycle. An RBI Analyst can select the implementation methods like creating a new task versus linking to an existing task. After an Inspection Plan is reviewed and approved, implementation strategies can be executed based on the selections made by the RBI Analysts.

You can also perform actions such as Edit an Approved Plan, Update the Plan, and Capture the Revision History, including asset information to ensure a flexible, easy-to-use, and seamless inspection planning process.

Note: The Alternative Inspection Plan does not support the following workflows:
  • Compliance Management
    • When you use the Alternative Inspection Plan process, the compliance recommendations have the following behavior:
      • If the parent asset has no RBI components linked, you can continue to use the current inspection plan workflow which supports compliance recommendation.
      • If the parent asset has at least one RBI component linked, you will be forced to use the Alternative Inspection Plan and will not be able to view the compliance recommendations.
  • RBI Inspection Grouping
  • Promotion to Asset Strategy Management

Create an Alternative Inspection Plan

When the alternative Inspection Plan preference is set to True, an MI RBI Analyst can create an Inspection Plan from the RBI Asset page.

About This Task

The Inspection Plan should be created once the analyst has analyzed and finalized risk for each component linked to the RBI Asset.

Procedure

  1. Access the Asset Summary workspace for the asset for which you want to create an Inspection Plan.
    The Asset Summary workspace appears.
    Note: You can also access the related Inspection Plan for a component and Criticality Analysis.
  2. Select +Create Inspection Plan.

    The Inspection Plan is created. Inspection Plan Details are generated automatically for the Damage Mechanisms on Risk Completed analyses related to the RBI Asset where there is an associated Inspection Strategy derived from policy content.

    Note:
    • All RBI Components linked to the Asset must have an active analysis to create the Inspection Plan.
    • If an Inspection Plan has already been created, the Inspection Plan link appears with the Update button.
    • Inspection Plan Details are generated for Damage Mechanisms which have a Recommended Inspection Effectiveness.

Update an Alternative Inspection Plan

An MI RBI Analyst can update an Inspection Plan from either the RBI Asset page or the Inspection Plan page. This removes the current Inspection Plan Detail records and regenerate new Inspection Plan Details based on the current risk complete analyses.

About This Task

When an analyst modifies an Alternative Inspection Plan:
  • Any existing Inspection Plan Details are removed.
  • The Inspection tasks previously linked to the Inspection Plan details are unlinked from the details. However, the tasks remain linked to the asset.
  • New Inspection Plan Details are generated based on the Degradation Mechanisms on the Risk Complete analyses related to the Asset.
  • If the Inspection Plan is in the Approved State:
    • The plan is moved from the Approved to Modified state.
    • An Inspection Plan Revision record is created and linked to the existing Inspection Plan.
    • For each existing Inspection Plan detail record linked to the Inspection Plan, an Inspection Plan detail revision record is created and linked to the Inspection Plan Revision.

Procedure

  1. Access the Asset Summary workspace for the asset for which you want to create an Inspection Plan.
    The Asset Summary workspace appears.

    -or-

    Access the Inspection Plan that you want to modify.

  2. Select .
    A confirmation message appears to update the Inspection Plan.
    Note: If the button is an orange , then there are active analyses on the RBI Components linked to the Asset which were not available when the Inspection Plan was generated. This indicates that the Inspection Plan must be updated.
  3. Select Yes.
    The Inspection Plan is updated.
    Note:

    If you do not want to delete and re-create Inspection Plan details, instead you want to modify the existing records, you can edit an approved alternative Inspection Plan.

Edit an Approved Alternative Inspection Plan

An MI RBI Analyst can edit an approved alternative Inspection Plan from the Inspection Plan page. This will enable the current Inspection Plan record and related Inspection Plan Details for modification.

About This Task

When an analyst edits an approved alternative Inspection Plan:
  • The plan is moved from the approved to modified state.
  • An Inspection Plan Revision record is created and linked to the existing Inspection Plan.
  • For each existing Inspection Plan detail record linked to the Inspection Plan, an Inspection Plan Detail Revision record is created and linked to the Inspection Plan Revision.

Procedure

  1. Access the Inspection Plan that you want to edit.
  2. Select .
    A confirmation message appears to edit the Inspection Plan.
  3. Select Yes.
    The Inspection Plan is enabled for editing.

Add an Inspection Plan Detail record to an Alternative Inspection Plan

To add an Inspection Plan Detail Record, the Alternative Inspection Plan must be in either Proposed or Modified state.

About This Task

Use the Inspection Plan page, to add an Inspection Plan Detail which was not generated automatically during Inspection plan creation.

Procedure

  1. Access the Inspection Plan for which you want to add an Inspection Plan Detail.
  2. In the Inspection Plan Details section, enter the new Inspection Plan Detail record values in the last row of the Bulk Data Form.
    Note:
    • The Degradation Mechanism field is required for the Task Type and Extent field picklists to populate.
    • Once the Component field is set, the Degradation Mechanism field will be filtered to the Degradation Mechanisms linked to the specified Component.
    • After saving the changes, the Asset Key field is set automatically on the Inspection Plan Detail record. The Inspection Plan Detail record will also be linked automatically to the Inspection Plan record.
    • The Recurring flag will be selected by default.
  3. Select .
    The Inspection Plan Details are saved successfully.

Mark an Inspection Plan Detail to be Implemented to an Inspection Task

About This Task

The Inspection Plan details are implemented as Inspection Tasks when the related Inspection Plan is moved to Approved state and when the Task field is set in the Inspection Plan detail record. You can either select Create New, or a pre-existing Task linked to the Asset in the Task drop-down list before approving the Inspection Plan.

Procedure

  1. Access the Inspection Plan for which you want to implement Inspection Tasks.
  2. In the Inspection Plan Details section, in the Task drop-down list, select a pre-existing Inspection Task that is linked to the parent RBI Asset or select Create New.

  3. Note: If the Inspection Plan Detail is non-recurring, you cannot link an existing task. You can only create new tasks.
  4. Select .
    The Inspection Plan Detail is marked for implementation. The Inspection Tasks does not get created and linked until the Inspection Plan is moved to Approved State.
    Note:
    • You can unlink an Inspection Task from an Inspection Plan Detail by resetting the Task drop-down list to blank.
    • The Task gets unlinked, after approving the Inspection Plan.

Approve an Alternative Inspection Plan

Any user with the MI Inspection Plan Approver Security Role can move an Inspection Plan to the Approved state. When the Inspection Plan is approved, Inspection Plan Details are implemented as Tasks.

About This Task

Inspection Plan details are implemented as tasks when the Task field is set on the Inspection Plan detail record. The user can select either Create New, or a pre-existing Task linked to the Asset in the Task field before approving the Inspection Plan. Once approved, the Inspection Task will be created and/or linked to the Inspection Plan detail.

Procedure

  1. Access the Inspection Plan that you want to approve.
  2. In the Proposed box, select Approve, and then select Done.
    A message appears, stating that the Inspection Plan has been approved.
    Note:
    • After you approve an Inspection plan, you cannot delete, edit, or add an Inspection plan details. You must first move the Inspection plan to the modified state.
    • After Approval, the Task field will be updated to the new Inspection Task ID if Create New was selected.
      • The Implement field on the Inspection Plan detail record will be reset to false.
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    • Alternative Inspection Plans are not promoted to the Asset Strategy Management module.

Implement Inspection Plan Detail to a New Inspection Task

When implementing Inspection Plan Detail to a new Inspection Task, the Inspection Task fields are populated with the following values:

FieldValueSource
Desired Interval

The value of the Interval Scope field.

Inspection Plan Detail
Desired Interval Basis

RBI 580 or RBI 581

Note:
  • The field is undefined for non-recurring tasks.
  • If the Methodology field is not defined or the Override Interval field is True, then the field is set to User Defined.
Inspection Plan Detail
Last DateThe value of the Last Date field.Inspection Plan Detail
Next DateThe value will be calculated and populated based on the Last Date and Desired Interval.Inspection Plan Detail
Override Interval

False

Inspection Plan Detail
ReasonThe value in the Methodology field.Inspection Plan Detail
ReoccurringThe value in the Reoccurring field.Inspection Plan Detail
Task DetailsThe value in the Inspection Scope field concatenated with the value in the Basis field.Inspection Plan Detail
Task ID

The value in the Degradation Mechanism field concatenated with the value in the Task Type field.

Inspection Plan Detail
Task TypeThe value in the Task Type field.Inspection Plan Detail
Note: To add custom mapping from Inspection Plan Detail to Inspection Task, refer to KBA 000039697.

Implement Inspection Plan Detail to an Existing Inspection Task

When implementing Inspection Plan Detail to an existing Inspection Task, the Inspection Task fields are populated with the following values:

FieldValueSource
Desired Interval

The least value of Interval Scope among the related Inspection Plan Details.

Note:
  • The field is populated only if the value in the Override Interval field is False and the value in the Reoccurring field is True.
  • Next Date is calculated and populated based on Desired Interval and Last Date. Last Date is not mapped while linking to an existing Inspection Task.
  • If the Inspection Plan Detail is already linked to an Inspection Task, the Interval Scope of the Inspection Task will be updated with the Interval Scope on the detail, when the Inspection Plan is approved.
Inspection Plan Detail
Desired Interval Basis

RBI 580 or RBI 581

Note:
  • The field is populated only if the value in the Override Interval field is False and the value in the Reoccurring field is True.
  • The field is undefined for non-recurring tasks.
  • If the Methodology field is not defined or the Override Interval field is True, then the field is set to User Defined.
Inspection Plan Detail
ReasonThe value in the Methodology field.Inspection Plan Detail
ReoccurringThe value in the Reoccurring field.
Note: If the Inspection Plan Detail is already linked to an Inspection Task, the Reoccurring field of the Inspection Task will be updated with the Reoccurring field on the detail, when the Inspection Plan is approved.
Inspection Plan Detail
Task DetailsThe value in the Inspection Scope field concatenated with the value in the Basis field.
Note:
  • The value is appended to the top of the previous Task Details value.
  • If the Inspection Plan Detail is already linked to an Inspection Task, the Task Details of the Inspection Task will be updated with the Inspection Scope and Basis on the detail, when the Inspection Plan is approved.
Inspection Plan Detail
Task TypeThe value in the Task Type field.
Note: If the Inspection Plan Detail is already linked to an Inspection Task, the Task Type of the Inspection Task will be updated with the Task Type on the detail, when the Inspection Plan is approved.
Inspection Plan Detail
Note: Task ID, Override Interval, and Last Date are not mapped while implementing an Inspection Plan Detail to an existing task.