Risk Based Inspection

Risk Based Inspection is regarded as a cost effective alternative to traditional inspection. RBI is used for planning and implementation of inspection and maintenance programs.

History tells us that 80% of the risk in industrial plants in general is related to 20% of the pressure equipment. To be more efficient with inspections and maintenance, it is useful to identify this 20% higher risk assets.

The purpose of risk ranking of equipment is to provide the basis for a risk directed inspection approach where maintenance resources (time and money) can be optimised in the inspection program. This results in safer and more reliable plant operations, while controlling the resources. The pay-back of RBI programs is on average around 10 to 1!

With RBI, SGS Industrial Services offer clients the opportunity to focus their inspection and maintenance resources on those items in their plant that contain the highest risks. Our experts analyse available data, such as historical inspection and maintenance records, perform audits and where needed results of additional inspections. They compare this with known industry facts and determine a risk rating for the assets under investigation. Advanced computer software allows us to further rework the information to draw up a specific inspection and maintenance plan that suits this specific situation.

Apart from operating the RBI program for you, implementation support, training of staff and continued monitoring are also part of the RBI service offer.

Further additional services in our Reliability and Integrity Management services package can assist our clients to manage maintenance and assure integrity of their assets. These additional reliability services include defining Remaining Useful Life of assets, Root Cause Failure Analysis, Reliability Management and Fitness for Service analysis.