Purposes
The purposes of RBI include:
- To improve risk management results.
- To provide a holistic, interdependent approach for understanding and managing risks.
- To move away from time based inspection often governed by minimum compliance with rules, regulations and standards for inspection.
- To apply a strategy of doing what is needed for safeguarding integrity and improving reliability and availability of the asset by planning and executing those inspections that are needed.
- To provide economic benefits such as fewer inspections, fewer or shorter shutdowns and longer run length.
- To safeguard integrity.
- To reduce the risk of failure.
- To Increase plant availability and reduce unplanned outages.
- To Reduce unnecessary inspection and maintenance costs without compromising safety or reliability.
- To provide a flexible technique able to continuously improve and adopt to changing risk environment.
- To ensure Inspection techniques and methods are clearly defined based on thorough understanding of potential failure modes
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