Customised checklist of questions that need to be answered as part of the Readiness Review process. Typical areas which can be covered in the checklist include: • HSE; • Process Safety; • Management of Change; • QA/ QC; • Maintenance; • Operating Procedures and Safe Work Practices; • Training and Competency; • Emergency Response; •...Continue Reading

A readiness report summarises the findings of the readiness assessment as well as any gaps identified.Continue Reading

Readiness tests are conducted as part of the readiness assessment to evaluate the preparedness of the facility for live operations. These can comprise safety/emergency drills, pre-startup inspections, equipment test runs, etc.Continue Reading

Readiness assessment tool generally involves the use of a customised checklist covering typical areas such as: • HSE; • Process Safety; • Management of Change; • QA/ QC; • Maintenance; • Operating Procedures and Safe Work Practices; • Training and Competency; • Emergency Response; • Electrical & Instrumentation; • Piping; • Rotating Equipment; • Instrumentation...Continue Reading

FMECA and FMEA are closely related tools to identify failure modes that may potentially cause product or process failure, thus providing an opportunity to reduce the possibility of failure.Continue Reading

There are Seven Steps to Developing an FMEA: FMEA Pre-Work and Assemble the FMEA Team Path 1 Development (Requirements through Severity Ranking) Path 2 Development (Potential Causes and Prevention Controls through Occurrence Ranking) Path 3 Development (Testing and Detection Controls through Detection Ranking) Action Priority & Assignment Actions Taken / Design Review Re-ranking RPN &...Continue Reading

Failure Mode Effect Criticality Analysis – involves quantitative failure analysis. The FMECA involves creating a series of linkages between potential failures (Failure Modes), the impact on the mission (Effects) and the causes of the failure (Causes and Mechanisms).Continue Reading

FMEA is a structured approach to discovering potential failures that may exist within the design of a product or process. Condcuting FMEA allows to identify, prioritize and limit these failure modes.Continue Reading

RAM study can be performed at various stages of the life cycle, typically during Pre-FEED, FEED, Detailed engineering and Process Operation stages.Continue Reading

The current IEC standard is IEC 60812, 3rd Edition, August 2018 – Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA and FMECA) This document explains how failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), including the failure modes, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA) variant, is planned, performed, documented and maintained and addresses the following: -Describes the principles -Provides the...Continue Reading