Mechanical Integrity and Integrity Operating Windows
Connecting what the plant is doing today to what it does to the metal
Integrity operating windows make the link between process conditions and damage rate explicit and actionable. This course covers mechanical integrity programme design and the establishment of operating limits that operations can actually monitor and respond to.
This course sits alongside our Mechanical Integrity and IOW consulting work, so what is taught is what we do.
Who should attend
Course content
Every module is taught with worked examples and exercises drawn from real plant, and adapted to your own process where the course runs in house.
Mechanical integrity programme
- Equipment in scope and the written procedures required
- Inspection, testing and preventive maintenance structure
- Quality assurance for new and replacement equipment
- Deficiency management and the equipment running outside limits
Integrity operating windows
- Critical, standard and informational limits
- Linking a process parameter to a damage mechanism and rate
- Setting limits from corrosion and materials knowledge
- Parameters that matter, including temperature, water chemistry, sulphur, chlorides and velocity
Making them operational
- Monitoring, alarming and trending the parameters
- Exceedance response and who decides
- Documenting exceedances and feeding them into inspection planning
- Avoiding a window set so wide it is never breached
Assurance
- Auditing the mechanical integrity programme
- Periodic review of the windows against inspection findings
- Management of change when the feed or operating envelope changes
What you receive
- An integrity operating window register template
- A mechanical integrity programme gap checklist
- An exceedance response procedure outline
- Assessment result and attendance record
What changes afterwards
- Operations see the connection between how they run and equipment life
- Exceedances are recognised and responded to rather than normalised
- Inspection planning receives real operating history
- The mechanical integrity element withstands audit
Standards and references
We teach Mechanical Integrity and Integrity Operating Windows against API RP 584 integrity operating windows and the codes listed with it, at the edition current when you run it.
Run Mechanical Integrity and Integrity Operating Windows for your team
We will come back with dates, the pre-reading it needs and a cost per head. Tell us who is attending, what they already do day to day and whether you want it at your site or delivered online.
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