Material failures and defects on your pressure equipment can cause permanent damage, unplanned shutdowns, dangerous accidents and loss of public confidence. Our fitness for service assessments can determine the safety and integrity of your equipment, help prevent catastrophic failure and maintain safe and reliable operation.
Why use a fitness for service assessment from SGS?
- Determine if assets, such as pressure vessels, or piping are safe and fit for continued operation
- Assess how reliable your assets will be over a set period of time – for example, until your next planned shutdown
- Make informed decisions on whether to run, repair, re-rate, alter or retire your equipment
- Assess the remaining life of your equipment to set future inspection intervals and assist with your budgeting for capital expenditure
- Reduce shutdown time and gain more effective remediation
- Gain expert recommendations on any necessary corrective action
A trusted provider of fitness for service assessments
As a world leader in the development and implementation of fitness for service assessments, our reputation is built upon a proven track record serving a wide range of clients in New Zealand and across the globe. We offer you worldwide multidisciplinary resources, extensive experience and highly qualified staff.
Comprehensive three-level approach
Our fitness for service assessment offers a comprehensive analysis of an asset's current and future integrity by assessing it progressively over three levels:
- Level 1 – basic screening: quick assessments using conservative methods
- Level 2 – detailed analysis: incorporates more specific data and advanced calculations
- Level 3 – high expertise and advanced software technology: utilizes finite element analysis (FEA) and fracture mechanics for high-precision evaluations
Our fitness for service assessments include:
- Customised and cost-effective assessments
- Finite element analysis (FEA) to assess equipment
- Solution based recommendations
- Identification of alternative service options, with enhanced equipment performance
- Recommendations of effective remediation and repair approaches
- Equipment assessment
- Corrosion evaluation
- Data analysis and risk assessment
- Evaluation of damage mechanisms
- Materials testing
- Non-destructive testing (NDT)
- Stress analysis
- Visual inspection