Pip360 Services
At PIP360 we offer complete consultation services to analyze and define a project to implement the Predictive Maintenance Management that your pipelines need.
A shift from Reactive Maintenance that is typically performed today to a Predictive model has a number of benefits. A comparison of Maintenance Strategies is shown below:
Reactive Maintenance
Fix it when it Breaks
PROS
- Low initial cost for non-critical processes and infrastructure
CONS
- emergency shutdowns
- emergency repairs
- collateral damage
- Most expensive in the long run
Preventative Maintenance
Replace it before it Breaks
PROS
- Schedule outages
- Fewer emergency outages
- Lower collateral damage
CONS
- More replacements than necessary
- does not respond to changing conditions
Predictive Maintenance
Use Data & Analysis to predict breakage
PROS
- Prevent emergency outages
- Adapt to changing conditions
- Extend service life
- Lowest collateral damage
CONS
- Higher initial cost for continuous data collection and analysis
The benefits of moving to a predictive model are known, and PIP360 offers a complete set of services to get to that stage. The industry best practice of Predictive Maintenance Management cannot be achieved with Manual Ultrasonic Testing (MUT) because of MUT data variability and long period between surveys. PIP360 enables you to do so by providing Automatic Ultrasonic Testing (AUT) services.
| Feature | PIP360 / PIPVIEW | Manual UT |
| Frequency of data collection | Daily | Monthly or Quarterly |
| Data Quality | +/-0.05mm | +/- 1mm |
| Data points / TML | Array of 24 + 3 spot sensors | 1 to 24 individual positions |
| Time to establish wear rate | 15 to 21 running days | Quarterly to Yearly |
| Respond to operation variables | 7 running days | Quarterly to Yearly |
| Reporting Period | Weekly to monthly | Quarterly to Yearly |
| Data Analysis / Viewing / Reporting |
-Preformatted and Interactive |
-Current Thickness, decisions based on thickness thresholds for alerts and alarms. |
| Time for Maintenance Planner to develop scope of work for 60 locations | 9 minutes | 1 day |
PIP360 Predictive Maintenance Management
- Precision Daily Data
- Preformatted reports – historical daily thickness, current wear rate, Wear profile for arrays, EOL prediction.
- Interactive analysis (complete verified data set with every report)
- Interactive maintenance prescription
- Weekly Heads-up reports of upcoming maintenance
- Weekly Heads-up report of risk issues