Fitness For Service (API 579-1/ASME FFS-1)
ICS Inspection Services employs API certified inspection experts, covering Libya and is perfectly positioned, to offer API 579 Fitness for Service.
ICS’s Approach
Fitness-For-Service (FFS) assessments are quantitative engineering evaluations that are performed to demonstrate the structural integrity of an in-service component that may contain a flaw or damage, or that may be operating under a specific condition that might cause a failure.
FFS can be used to make run-repair-replace decisions to help determine if components in pressurized equipment containing flaws that have been identified by inspection can continue to operate safely for some period of time.
Fitness for Service is needed when:
• An asset lacks original design information or it may have exceeded its useful life.
• Assets manufactured before 1987, equipment operate at relatively low temperature – exposed to self-refrigeration
• Decommissioned asset that may be used in a different service
• Equipment operating in either high temperature and/or cyclic Service
• Assets that have undergone any event that might have affected its serviceability like: temperature excursions, overloads, different feed/external environment or a fire.
• Inspection findings revealed a condition that may impact the future operation of the asset, such as metal loss, distortion (misalignment, out of roundness, bulges or dents), laminations, cracking or blisters.
ICS uses the diversity of its qualified, certified and multidiscipline workforce to deliver Fitness for Service programs across all assets and operations.
Contact ICS today to learn more about how we can help you to evaluate and protect your most valuable assets with certainty and save money through predictable outcomes.
Risk Based Inspection Services (API 580)
ICS Inspection Services employs API certified inspection experts, covering Libya and is perfectly positioned, to offer API 580 Risk Based Inspection.
ICS’s Approach
Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) is a methodology that involves quantitative assessment of the probability of failure and the consequence of failure associated with each equipment item in an operation. An RBI program places individual pieces of equipment into specific categories based on their risks and prioritizes inspection efforts based on this categorization.
RBI is used to identify and understand incumbent risk drivers and therefore prioritize inspection-related activities. By taking a prioritized approach more focus can be given to high risk equipment and less focus to low risk equipment thereby increasing overall reliability and reducing costs both in terms of NDT inspection and also in potential equipment failures. An RBI inspection plan outlines the type and schedule of inspection for the assets in a production facility.
Contact ICS today to learn more about how we can help you to protect your most valuable assets with certainty and save money through predictable outcomes.