Risk-based inspection and maintenance in power and process plants in Europe

Reliability engineering: Old problems and new challenges

“…These systems are seeking the maturity of practical procedures and indeed start to be applied in various industries from the early development stages of any new product, process or system (Jovanovic, 2003) Maintenance Management Systems allow the efficient management of the flow of materials, the coordination of the internal activities with the ones of the suppliers and the proper dialogue with the productive sector to time the activities in harmony with the necessities of equipment availability for production. Indeed, forecasting of production demand is a key element to integrated production and maintenance planning and control.…”

Establishment of optimal physical assets inspection frequency based on risk principles

“…Also, according to Lee and Teo [17] 10-20% of items give rise to 80-95% of equipment risk exposures. The same order of values is referred by Jovanovic [13] on his study about risk-based inspection and maintenance in power and process plants in Europe.…”

Critical success factors of risk‐based inspection

“…Hence, this issue stresses the need for more unified tools for in-service inspection and the need to develop a RBI framework. Thus, an inquiry was performed in 1999 by MPA Stuttgart to acquire European industries' views on matters pertaining to RBI implementation and approaches on the RBI regulatory foundation and its implementation [54]. The outcome of the inquiry confirmed the support for RBI approach and the urgent need for European RBI guidelines which leads to the realization of the Risk Based Inspection and Maintenance Procedures for European Industry (RIMAP) project.…”