Petrochemicals & refining
The sector where risk-based inspection originated. Extensive equipment fleets, turnarounds planned long in advance, corrosion under insulation.
Articles in the petrochemicals & refining sector
Engineering and projects
AI in the engineering office: speed without delegating the decision
AI in the engineering office speeds up search, drafting and compliance review. What it really proposes, and what the engineer keeps in hand.
Asset integrity
Types of industrial corrosion: how to recognise and treat them
Uniform, pitting, galvanic, crevice, SCC, CUI, MIC: recognise each corrosion mechanism by its morphology to choose the right treatment.
Asset integrity
Periodic requalification of pressure equipment: what the rules require
What the PED and national in-service regimes require for pressure equipment requalification, and the operating file that decides the outcome.
AI and maintenance
RAG in industry: answering from YOUR documents, not the web
RAG makes AI answer from your documents, not the web. Its principle, where it breaks (retrieval) and the governance that holds it together.
The field toolbox
- Corrosion ratemm/yr
- MTBF · MTTR · uptimereliability
- Thickness logtrend
- Inspection intervaldue date
- Report templateCMMS
- Unit convertermm · psi
- Lost hoursROI
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Asset integrity
Non-destructive testing (NDT): which method for which defect?
Penetrant, magnetic particle, eddy current, ultrasonic, radiography: which NDT method for which defect, material and access.
Asset integrity
The 5 Best Industrial Asset Integrity Software
An honest comparison of 5 industrial asset integrity software tools: what each really does, its strength, its limit, and which one to choose.
AI and maintenance
How to choose a profitable AI project among several ideas
How to select and prioritise the most profitable AI project in a plant: the sorting criteria, a scoring grid, and the traps that turn a pilot into a money pit.
Software and data
CMMS, EAM, IDMS and AIMS: what are the differences?
CMMS, EAM, IDMS, AIMS: clear definitions, what each software category covers, what it does not do, and how they coexist in an industrial plant.
Software and data
Industrial AI: What It Really Is, and What It Changes on the Plant Floor
Industrial AI without the jargon: use cases by function and by sector, limits, costs, financing and a roadmap to get started in your plant.
Industrial inspection
AI in non-destructive testing: what AI adds to NDT
What artificial intelligence really adds to non-destructive testing: assisted defect detection on images, structured results, trending, and its honest limits.
Software and data
Spreadsheet or dedicated software to track inspections?
Is a spreadsheet enough to track industrial inspections? When Excel is genuinely fine, the five points where it breaks, and how to migrate without a big-bang.
AI and maintenance
The real risks of AI in industry, and why local deployment reduces them
The real risks of AI in industry: data leaks, invisible errors, vendor lock-in, security. Most come down to one thing, keeping control of your data.
AI and maintenance
Predictive AI in maintenance: extending your equipment's life
What predictive AI really changes in maintenance: anticipate degradation to act at the right moment and extend the useful life of your equipment.
Industrial inspection
Risk-based inspection (RBI) explained to the people who have to apply it
What risk-based inspection actually is, how probability and consequence of failure are built, and what you need in hand before you start.
Maintenance strategy
Preventive maintenance plan: building it from real risk
How to build a preventive maintenance plan from equipment criticality and real condition, instead of inherited intervals that no one questions any more.
Asset integrity
When to replace industrial equipment: estimating how long it has left
What a remaining useful life estimate is really worth, the conditions that make it defensible, and the cases where you should refuse to calculate it.
Asset integrity
Tracking the condition of your industrial equipment: asset integrity management
What an equipment integrity record actually contains, how it differs from a CMMS, and where to begin when everything still lives inside PDFs.
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