Corrosion can limit the safe and useful life of process equipment. Thus, the effects of corrosion must be incorporated into component remaining life assessment and aging management programs. Taking a risk based approach for the overall asset brings together the jigsaw of maintaining integrity for most industrial assets. Risk assessment can be applied to all aspects of an operation, from design, through fabrication, operations, maintenance, repair, inspection, assessing failure history data and at all times meeting quality requirements. Managing equipment integrity is essential to the safe, reliable operation of process plant equipment. Risk based integrity management is rapidly becoming the best and most appropriate technique for determining inspection and maintenance strategies for industry assets. In this paper we describe plant life management as a facet of integrity management and its relation to RBI and RBM.

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integrated management, plant life management, risk assessment, RBI, RBM