MECHANICAL INTEGRITY PROGRAMS
Quality Assurance Resources knows the value of mechanical integrity when it comes to safety and production. Knowing that your equipment is fit-for-service and that your company’s risk is greatly minimized is essential. Additionally, in today’s competitive market place, you also need to know that your mechanical integrity program efforts are prioritized and streamlined so that you feel confident that you are getting the best value for the effort so that you can remain competitive and within budget. That’s why at QAR we successfully demonstrate the ability to work on-site with clients to define objectives, identify the variance between the existing and desired programs, and then we compile a team tailored to maximize efforts. Efforts are streamline by utilizing Project Managers who know jurisdictional requirements, and who know how to use strategic approaches like Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Risked Based Inspection (RBI), as well as the advantages, disadvantages, and limitations of non-destructive testing and other inspection services that are essential to a sound mechanical integrity program. Services that we provide pertaining to mechanical integrity are:
- Program Auditing to verify compliance to jurisdictional requirement and/or applicable Recommended Practice
- Program Development and Implementation
- Program Management
- Provide the necessary staff to satisfy the needs of your program i.e. Manager, Engineers, Planners, Schedulers, Inspectors, Draftsmen, Data Entry, Administrative and Clerical Personnel.
- Provide software or use your in-house software to manage data.
- Identify and create a list of all covered equipment, including piping circuits
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Complete data sheets and populate a data base for each item
- Provide a criticality rating with probability and consequence of failure for each item
- Field verify and red-line P&ID´s
- Perform corrosion studies to establish failure mechanisms
- Perform process studies to identify process systems and conditions for consequence analysis
- Create Inspection and Test Plans based on Equipment Type, Failure Modes, and Criticality Ratings
- Develop Specific Inspection Plans (SIP’s)
- Perform inspections and testing according to the SIP’s
- Document visual inspections with Inspection Sketches or Autocad Drawings
- Determine Corrosion Rates, predict Remaining Life, and establish Next Inspection Dates
- Generate deficiency reports identifying conditions that do not meet the acceptance criteria
- Establish recommendations to correct identified deficiencies
- Update equipment plans identifying future inspection and testing requirements