FA-04Intermediate
Corrosion & Pipeline Integrity
Predicts where a line is corroding fastest and how long it has left, so inspection and replacement go where the risk actually is.
Facilities, Rotating Equipment & IntegrityAIDomain
FA-05FoundationalWave 2DomainAI
Risk-Based Inspection Planning
In one sentence
Allocates a fixed inspection budget to the equipment where failure would hurt most and is most likely, with the reasoning written down.
The problem
Inspection plans are inherited and adjusted at the margin. Equipment that has never failed keeps its frequent inspection while a genuinely high-risk vessel sits on a long interval because that is what the previous plan said.
How it works
Probability of failure is estimated from degradation mechanism, inspection history and condition data; consequence of failure from inventory, location, process conditions and safety exposure. Ranking follows API 581 methodology, and every input assumption is stored so an inspection authority can audit how a rank was reached.
Data required
- Equipment register with materials, design conditions and damage mechanisms
- Inspection history with findings and measured thicknesses
- Process conditions and fluid inventory per system
- Consequence inputs: location, occupancy, environmental sensitivity
What you get
- Risk matrix by equipment with probability and consequence decomposed
- Inspection plan with intervals, methods and coverage per item
- Documented audit trail of assumptions for the inspection authority
What it cannot do
Risk-based inspection shifts effort; it does not reduce total effort in a portfolio that has been under-inspected. In fields where the baseline condition of much of the equipment is simply unknown, the first honest output is an assessment campaign, and any plan produced before that campaign rests on assumed rather than measured condition.
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