Equipment Risk Consulting (ERC)
- A new approach to plant management from TWI
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In this competitive age, the resources of successful plant operators can be stretched when faced with unforeseen problems or when time-investment is required for long-term planning. The key is to identify the most cost-effective practical solution using state of the art assessment tools and techniques.
In recent years a new approach to engineering consultancy has been developed. This new approach is formed around assessment technologies, encompassed in the title asset integrity management.
TWI has formed a new group called Equipment Risk Consulting (ERC), with the aim of providing a single and practical engineering solution to industrial problems experienced by equipment owners and operators. The new group offers a mix of world leading engineers with both practical industrial experience and world class technical expertise.
The core work that the group coordinates aims to:
- Maximise plant life and availability
- Optimise inspection, repair and maintenance spend (life time costs)
- Meet safety and reliability requirements
- Train equipment owners and operators to be informed and competent engineers:
- Provide software tools for equipment owners and operators (off the shelf and customised)
- Provide rapid on and off site engineering consultancy for plant irregularities
- In-service damage assessment
- Failure investigation
- Design review
- Process excursion integrity assessment
The group operates worldwide with major offices in the UK, East Asia, South America and Middle East amongst other locations. This multi location team enables ERC to provide local and cost effective support.
Some of the key technologies employed by the group are listed below:
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- Risk based inspection
- FEED Studies and design reviews
- Fitness for service
- Creep assessment and testing
- Corrosion
- Fracture mechanics
- Stress analysis
- Vibration induced fatigue analysis and measurement
- Life assessment & condition monitoring
- Fatigue analysis
- Direct assessment of pipelines
- Repair/replacement strategies
- Inspection planning coordination and procedure development
- On-site inspection
- Procedure validation
- Long range ultrasonics - Teletest
- Laboratory services
- Tensile Tests
- Creep Tests
- Impact Toughness
- Fracture Toughness
- Fatigue Tests
- Fatigue Crack Growth
- Sour Service Testing
- Metallographic Laboratory
- Full scale customised tests
- Training
Equipment Risk Consulting has captured much of its expertise in software tools, bringing advanced engineering solutions to companies and personnel:
- Risk based inspection (RBI)
- Probabilistic cost risk optimisation
- Fitness-for-Service
- Fracture mechanics
- Welding and NDT QA/QC
All software is available for download from the following website: www.twisoftware.com
For further information on ERC services, please contact erc@twi.co.uk
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