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Corporate - 04/04/08 Positive Material Identification for Critical Piping Systems SGS was challenged with performing retro Positive Material Identification for one of its’ long time refining clients to address the issue of non-conforming material components in critical piping systems. Once the full task was understood SGS adapted its PipeWrx technology, an exclusive communication and reporting software to meet the challenge. What resulted was an approach so unique and value adding that it was granted a US patent. The SGS Positive Material Identification System allows the user to efficiently gather extremely large quantities of data and subsequently analyze the data with detail not available with other systems. The result is that instead of using the typical approach of go/no-go the SGS PMI System gives the user flexibility to categorize non-conforming materials based on the specific alloy content of that material. This allowed the refinery to replace only 3 % of the 7% non-conforming components. The remaining components were either reclassified or monitored based on the service conditions and the alloy content. The cost of the Retro Positive Material Identification Program was a small fraction of the savings netted by not having to replace all of the non-conforming components. Additionally, after being audited by the clients MI auditing group the SGS positive material identification program was praised as one of the most comprehensive approaches to the problem challenge of Positive Material Identification for critical piping systems. |
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