- Companies involved in the manufacture or storage of highly hazardous chemicals have a legal and moral requirement to be compliant with jurisdictional regulations.?In the United States, that regulation is OSHA 1910.119. The same or similar regulation is applicable and has been adopted by every other country in the world.
- The regulation stipulates requirements for Process Safety Management.?The regulation breaks those requirements down into fourteen separates but related “elements.”
- The same companies often have difficulty “showing” or “proving” regulatory compliance because separate groups manage the data and associated work process within the organization
- Process Data is inaccurate
- Unclear what inspection/repair history information is required
- Inspection Confidence is not consistently assigned
- Repair history is either not documented well or overlooked
- Integrity Operating Windows (IOWs) is not defined
- Inspections not being performed in accordance with strategies
- Not enough detail in the recommendations for an inspector to perform the task
- Grouping of equipment and inspections is not managed effectively
- Inspectors are not gathering the right information during the inspection
- Risk and planned tasks are not being updated
- The Impact of Equipment Failures
- Equipment failures cost the US Process Industry over $8 Billion per year
- The average facility has a risk of $50 million per year due to failures of fixed equipment
The SAP Asset Intelligence Network (AIN) solution set offers an extended template driven modeling capability that allows operators to setup multiple data sets to describe the various RBI approaches. This, combined with the AsInt RBI APP embedded within the SAP AIN and ASPM (Asset Strategy and Performance Management), allows operators to manage multiple RBI approaches within a single solution.
