Session: Advances and Innovations to Drive Highly Effective Asset Integrity Programs

A reliable chemical plant is safe, profitable, and environmentally responsible. Reliable plants have higher capacity utilization and experience fewer process upsets and loss of primary containment (LOPC) events. Asset integrity management is fundamental to both reliability improvement and process safety management for process plants. An effective asset integrity management system should include effective condition monitoring programs for a variety of equipment and instrumentation classes and a robust management system involving all asset stakeholders to ensure effective communication of metrics and timely resolution of findings. Furthermore, process plants face challenges with managing asset integrity of aging infrastructure. Robust asset integrity programs must be able to handle these challenges as plant assets and related safety systems age. This session seeks papers that describe new methodologies, best practices, evaluation techniques, and case studies on all aspects of an asset integrity management program. Particular interests include innovations in inspection, testing, and maintenance methods for plant assets, methodological advances in developing and implementing facility wide reliability best practices, ensuring an effective metrics and management review system, and how these innovations can be used to advance process safety excellence for facilities.