Industry Survey of Risk-Based Life Management Practices

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian B. Speck ◽  
Abdolreza T. M. Iravani
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Oil Refinery ◽  
Plant Management ◽  
Process Unit ◽  
Life Management ◽  
Plant Safety ◽  
Methods Development ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Plant Life ◽  
Industry Sectors

The application of risk-based life management practices has generated considerable interest in industry. Plant safety and availability can be demonstrably improved through the application of risk-based methods alongside good plant management practices. The needs for and the experience of risk-based plant life management however, vary greatly across industry sectors. The principles of risk-based methods are documented and many risk-based techniques are widely available, but the practical interpretation of the principles and the use of the most appropriate techniques are subjects of great debate. This paper will identify technical and organisational requirements to implement risk-based methods. As part of this paper, a questionnaire survey has been carried out among companies to gain better understanding of the reality of plant life management and the needs of plant operators. This survey indicates that the benefits of risk-based methods for inspection (RBI) and maintenance (RBM) optimisation are recognised by different industrial sectors. There appears to be a lack of established and documented uniform RBI/RBM policy or guidance for application throughout the industry sectors. There is also an indication of insufficient resources and training to implement risk-based methods. Development of risk-based techniques by a competent team and an integrated user-friendly software based on a sound methodology remain as key issues. A case study is described of the application of RBI to an oil refinery process unit.

A Survey of Fitness-for-Service Trends in Industry

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Holtam ◽  
D. P. Baxter ◽  
I. A. Ashcroft ◽  
R. C. Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
American Petroleum Institute ◽  
Current Application ◽  
Life Management ◽  
Plant Life ◽  
Better Regulation ◽  
Industry Survey ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Industry Sectors

In 2002, TWI Ltd. carried out a questionnaire-based survey of “user experience of plant life management practices,” to gain a better understanding of the reality of plant life management and the needs of plant operators [Iravani and Speck, 2002, “Industry Survey of Risk Based Life Management Practices and Their Relationship to Fitness-for-Service Assessment,” TWI Report No. 13032/5/02]. In 2003, the European fitness-for-service network reported the results of their survey on “current application and future requirements for European fitness-for-service (FFS) technology” [Filiou et al. 2003, “Survey of Current Application and Future Requirements for European Fitness-for-Service Technology,” Technical Report No. FITNET/TR2/03, FITNET Consortium]. In 2006, the management of aging plant became a regulatory hot topic in the UK with a health and safety executive document on the subject being released [Health and Safety Executive, 2006, “Plant Ageing: Management of Equipment Containing Hazardous Fluids or Pressure,” RR509]. Considering also the recent release of the new API/ASME joint FFS standard [2007, API 579-1/ASME FFS-1, Fitness-For-Service, 1st ed., The American Petroleum Institute and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Washington, DC], TWI Ltd. decided 2007 was the ideal time to carry out an updated industry survey to assess how developments such as these might affect plant life management practices in different industry sectors across the world. The aims of this survey were to gain an insight into current FFS trends across several industry sectors and how these may change in the future. Information was gathered as to how different companies handle their FFS activities, both in terms of the types of flaw they assess and the complexity of the assessments they carry out. The survey also investigated how safety regulating authorities view FFS activities and whether or not they accept the results as the basis for plant integrity management decisions. Closely related to this is whether there is a need for better regulation of FFS activities, FFS training, or, indeed, whether FFS qualifications should be introduced. This paper presents the results of the online industry survey and draws pragmatic conclusions that will be of interest to all those involved with FFS activities, from inspectors to researchers and from engineers to insurers.

A Survey of Fitness-for-Service Trends in Industry

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Holtam ◽  
D. P. Baxter ◽  
I. A. Ashcroft ◽  
R. C. Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Current Application ◽  
Life Management ◽  
Plant Life ◽  
Better Regulation ◽  
Integrity Management ◽  
Industry Survey ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Industry Sectors

In 2002 TWI Ltd carried out a questionnaire-based survey of ‘user experience of plant life management practices’, to gain a better understanding of the reality of plant life management and the needs of plant operators [1]. In 2003 the European Fitness-for-Service Network (FITNET) reported the results of their survey on ‘current application and future requirements for European Fitness-for-Service (FFS) technology’ [2]. In 2006 the management of ageing plant became a regulatory hot topic in the UK with a Health and Safety Executive document on the subject being released [3]. Considering also the recent release of the new API/ASME joint FFS standard [4] TWI Ltd decided 2007 was the ideal time to carry out an updated industry survey, to assess how developments such as these might affect plant life management practices in different industry sectors across the world. The aims of this survey were to gain an insight into current FFS trends across several industry sectors and how these may change in the future. Information was gathered as to how different companies handle their FFS activities, both in terms of the types of flaw they assess and the complexity of the assessments they carry out. The survey also investigated how Safety Regulating Authorities (SRA) view FFS activities and whether or not they accept the results as the basis for plant integrity management decisions. Closely related to this is whether there is a need for better regulation of FFS activities, FFS training or indeed whether FFS qualifications should be introduced. This paper presents the results of the online industry survey and draws pragmatic conclusions that will be of interest to all those involved with FFS activities, from inspectors to researchers and from engineers to insurers.

Integrated Plant Life Cycle Management: The IAEA Contribution

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ki-Sig Kang ◽  
Claude Russell Clark ◽  
Poong Eil Juhn
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Service Life ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Life Cycle Management ◽  
Member States ◽  
Life Management ◽  
Plant Life ◽  
Operational Life ◽  
Plant Life Cycle

For the past couple of decades there has been a change of emphasis in the world nuclear power from that of building new Nuclear Power Plants (NPP) to that of taking measures to optimize the life cycle of operational plants. National approaches in many countries showed an increase of interest in Plant Life Management (PLIM), both in terms of plant service life assurance and in optimizing the service or operational life of NPP. A strong convergence of views is emerging from different National approaches, particularly in the area of the economic aspects of NPP operation and in the evolution in the scope of NPP PLIM. The latter can directly affect the cost of electricity from NPP in an increasingly competitive environment. The safety considerations of a NPP are paramount and those requirements have to be met to obtain and to extend/renew the operating license. To achieve the goal of the long term safe, economic and reliable operation of the plant an Integrated Life Cycle Management Programme (ILCMP) is necessary. Some countries already have advanced PLIM Programmes while others still have none. The ILCMP objective is to identify all that factors and requirements for the overall plant life cycle. The optimization of these requirements would allow for the minimum period of the investment return and maximum of the revenue from the sell of the produced electricity. Recognizing the importance of this issue and in response to the requests of the Member States the IAEA Division of Nuclear Power implements the Sub-programme on “Engineering and Management Support for Competitive Nuclear Power”. Four projects within this sub-programme deal with different aspects of the NPP life cycle management with the aim to increase the capabilities of interested Member States in implementing and maintenance of the competitive and sustainable nuclear power. Although all four projects contain certain issues of PLIM there is one specific project on guidance on engineering and management practices for optimization of NPP service life including decommissioning. This particular project deals with different specific issues of NPP life management including aspects of ageing phenomena and their monitoring, issues of control and instrumentation, maintenance and operation issues, economic evaluation of NPP life cycle management including guidance on its earlier shut down and decommissioning. The paper describes in detail the full scope IAEA activities on different issues of NPP life management and some of its achievements in this field during the nearest past as well as plans for the future.

scholarly journals Innovation Performance and Its Impact on Profitability Among Different Sectors in the Australian Construction Industry

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Hardie ◽  
Graham Miller ◽  
Karen Manley ◽  
Stephen McFallan
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Cooperative Research ◽  
Building Research ◽  
Evaluation Systems ◽  
Formal Evaluation ◽  
Industry Sectors

The BRITE (Building Research Information Technology and Environment) project was established by the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation to encourage innovation in the construction industry. While innovation is generally perceived to be broadly beneficial, there has been little formal study of its occurrence or impact in Australian construction or of the factors which foster an innovative atmosphere within an enterprise. In order to benchmark innovation performance, the BRITE project conducted a survey in 2004 into the nature, incidence and variety of technological and organisational innovations in various sectors of the industry. With some exceptions, the survey found that clients and consultants engaged in significantly higher levels of innovation than did suppliers, main contractors or trade contractors. Within the industry sectors those organisations classified as high innovators favoured the adoption of advanced management practices and had formal evaluation systems in place to judge their progress. They reported significant positive impacts on their profitability from innovation and can therefore provide instructive examples for the rest of the industry to follow.

Documenting ancient plant management in the northwest of North AmericaThis paper was submitted for the Special Issue on Ethnobotany, inspired by the Ethnobotany Symposium organized by Alain Cuerrier, Montréal Botanical Garden, and held in Montréal at the 2006 annual meeting of the Canadian Botanical Association.

Botany ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Lepofsky ◽  
Ken Lertzman
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Prescribed Burning ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Plant Management ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Definitive Evidence ◽  
European Contact ◽  
Lines Of Evidence

Ethnographic literature documents the pervasiveness of plant-management strategies, such as prescribed burning and other kinds of cultivation, among Northwest Peoples after European contact. In contrast, definitive evidence of precontact plant management has been elusive. Documenting the nature and extent of precontact plant-management strategies has relevance to historians, archaeologists, managers, conservationists, forest ecologists, and First Nations. In this paper, we summarize the various lines of evidence that have been, or could be, used to document ancient cultivation in the northwest of North America. We organize this discussion by the ecological consequences of ancient plant-management practices and their documented or potential visibility in the paleo-, neo-ecological, and archaeological records. Our review demonstrates that while finding evidence of ancient plant management can be difficult, such evidence can be found when innovative research methods are applied. Further, when various independent lines of evidence are compiled, reconstructions of past plant-management strategies are strengthened considerably.

Beyond the Grey Zone: Organization Research Publishing and Bibliodiversity in the Research Communication System

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Grey Zone ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Communication ◽  
Industry Sectors

Research publishing involves the production, use and management of research in a variety of genres and formats by commercial and non-profit academic publishers, and by organizations in government, civil society, university and industry sectors. However discussion of research publishing mainly tends to focus on the production and circulation of peer-reviewed academic journals and to a lesser extent books produced by commercial academic publishers. Research reports and papers produced by organizations outside the formal publishing system play a critical role in the research and development (R&D) system, yet they are often overlooked in studies on open scholarship and research communication. This is partly due to a lack of terminology to adequately describe the diverse publishing practices of organizations which operate across a spectrum from formal to informal economic activity. In this article I define and contextualise research publishing by organizations in relation to other forms of academic publishing and recent calls for greater bibliodiversity in scholarly communication. Commonly used terms such as ‘grey literature’ or ‘unpublished literature’ are inadequate to describe and account for the proliferation and importance of diverse research genres and formats able to be produced, published and disseminated in print and online by think tanks, government agencies, industry bodies and research centres. By taking a more holistic, systems-oriented approach to research publishing we can begin to understand the diverse actors, institutions and practices involved in knowledge production and develop appropriate policies, infrastructure and management practices to support an effective, efficient, equitable, credible and sustainable research knowledge commons in the public interest.

Plant life management activities in Japan

2000 ◽  
Vol 198 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Takao Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Life Management ◽  
Plant Life

scholarly journals The Impact of Common Problems between the Sectors of Industry and Capital and Ways of their Solutions in the Russian Federation: أثر المشاكل المُشتركة بين قِطاعات الصِناعة ورؤوس الأموال وطُرُق حُلولها في روسيا الإتحادية

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nemer Louay Badwan
Keyword(s):  
Financial Market ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Capital Financing ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Industry Sectors ◽  
The Impact

This study summarizes the impact of common problems between capital and industry sectors and aims to find solutions to these problems to reduce them or to reduce them. It also clarifies the resemblance and comparison of technology to the sectors of industry and capital in Russian Russia. Russia's total over the previous years, and show what happened in the Russian financial market following the withdrawal of many capital and investors from within Russia to abroad, and also shows us this study also the rotational nature of capital in Russia, as this study shows some of its objectives as a most important explanation The capital and industry sectors, their success factors and competitiveness in their application. It also shows the impact of capital financing on industries, clarifying the role of capital finance in various investment projects and in different sectors of industry, and summarizes the scientific and practical concept of capital and industry sectors. And the process, and this can be seen through analytical, graphical and statistical tables within the Russian market in terms of products, profits and losses of the Russian industries by percentages, and the exposure of some Russian investments within Russia, As well as some of the dynamics of consumption within Russia in terms of expenditures, exports, imports and expenditures, and the structure of small and medium-sized enterprises in percentages in terms of production and consumption In the various sectors of Russian industry. The study also summarizes the role of the Russian financial market in the national economic activity and the ratios of fixed assets and the total amounts invested and taxes imposed on them. The study also examined the financial and industrial activities of most of the industrial sectors in Russia and their impact on the economic situation inside the country.

scholarly journals Missing Links in Predicting Berry Sunburn in Future Vineyards

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Bahr ◽  
Dominik Schmidt ◽  
Katrin Kahlen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
Local Heat ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Plant Management ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Promising Tool ◽  
Berry Quality ◽  
Open Issues

Sunburn in grapevine berries is known as a recurring disorder causing severe yield losses and a decline in berry quality. The transition from healthy to sunburnt along a temporal trajectory is not fully understood. It is driven by light-boosted local heat impact and modulated by, e.g., past environments of the berry and its developmental state. Events of berry sunburn are often associated with heatwaves, indicating a link to climate change. In addition, the sensitivity of grapevine architecture to changing environmental condition indicates an urgent need to investigate and adapt mitigation strategies of berry sunburn in future vineyards. In this perspective, we want to identify missing links in predicting berry sunburn in vineyards and propose a modeling framework that may help us to investigate berry sunburn in future vineyards. For this, we propose to address open issues in both developing a model of berry sunburn and considering dynamic canopy growth, and canopy interaction with the environment and plant management such as shoot positioning or leaf removal. Because local environmental conditions drive sunburn, we aim at showing that identifying sunburn-reducing strategies in a vineyard under future environmental conditions can be supported by a modeling approach that integrates effects of management practices over time and takes grapevine architecture explicitly into account. We argue that functional-structural plant models may address such complex tasks. Once open issues are solved, they might be a promising tool to advance our knowledge on reducing risks of berry sunburn in silico.

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