Third Quarter of 2018

Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 580

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: September 21, 2018

Table 1. Enhancements and New Features
NoteTracking ID(s)
The performance of the Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 580 Data Loader has been improved to load 65 RBI Components per Asset with three Degradation Mechanism Evaluation records for each RBI Component.
Note: The maximum number of RBI Components that you can load may vary based on the system configuration, load on the server, and other performance factors.
US284402
You can now link RBI Components to TML Groups using a data loader. To facilitate this enhancement, a new data loader, RBI Components To TML Groups Relationship, has been added.US274082
You can now link multiple RBI Components to a TML Group. To facilitate this enhancement, the TML Group to RBI Component cardinality has been modified to Many to Many in the Mapped to RBI Component relationship family.US274081
You can now generate recommendations from the Active section of the RBI Bulk Evergreening workspace.US274079
The No Recommendations section in the Risk Based Inspection Overview page now displays assets that have at least one component with a Risk Completed analysis with no recommendations. Also, recommendations are now generated for components that have no recommendations. US273998
When you automatically consolidate recommendations, pre-existing recommendations are now consolidated with the new recommendations that are being generated.US273998
When an inspection is linked to the Degradation Mechanism Evaluation (DME), the Inspection Date field in Criticality Degradation Mech Evaluation records is now populated by the date in the Completion Date field. If more than one inspection is linked to the DME, the Inspection Date field uses the latest Completion Date of all the linked inspections. If all inspections are unlinked from the DME, the Inspection Date field is blank. US273157
To enhance usability, in the Unit Summary page, when viewing an RBI Component that is linked to a Corrosion Loop, you can now use the More button () to access the RBI component in the Asset Summary page. Additionally, if you are viewing the RBI Component from the Asset Summary page, you can use the More button () to access the RBI Component in the Unit Summary page if the RBI Component is linked to a Corrosion Loop.US269097
RBI Criticality Analysis has been enhanced to use linear interpolation to look up the Allowable Stress value based on the value in the Design Temperature field. To facilitate this enhancement, the Use Interpolation for Stress Reference Tables check box has been added in the Global Preferences page to enable or disable the linear interpolation for piping and pressure vessel components. US266658
Table 2. Resolved Issues
NoteTracking ID(s)
Previously, in the Risk Based Inspection module, if you used a family (parent or child) other than the baseline Functional Location family to denote a functional location, the Asset Summary page appeared as if the functional location were an asset. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Risk Based Inspection Overview page appears as expected.DE84510
Previously, in the Asset Hierarchy Configuration page, if you used a family (parent or child) other than the baseline Functional Location family to denote a functional location, in the Integrity section, an incorrect hyperlink appeared, behaving as if the functional location were an asset. Also, the number of linked records in the Asset Hierarchy page was incorrect. This issue has been resolved.DE84510
Previously, the value in the Recommended Inspection Interval field was incorrect in the LC71 and LC72 Inspection Strategies. This issue has been resolved. Now, the value has been correctly updated to 180 months.DE84263
Previously, the values in the Inspection Confidence, Inspection Extent, and Recommended Inspection Scope fields were incorrect in the following Inspection Strategies:
  • LC49
  • LC491
  • LC50
  • LC501
  • LC51
  • LC511
  • LC54
  • LC541
  • LC55
  • LC551
  • LC56
  • LC561
This issue has been resolved. Now, the values in the Inspection Confidence and Inspection Extent fields have been correctly updated as follows:
Inspection Strategy IDsInspection ConfidenceInspection Extent
LC49, LC491, LC50, LC501MediumUT shear wave 50% of all potential locations
LC51, LC511MediumMT or PT 25% of all potential locations
LC54, LC541, LC55, LC551LowUT shear wave 25% of all potential locations
LC56, LC561LowMT or PT 10% of all potential locations
The Recommended Inspection Scope for all these Inspection Strategies has been updated according to the updated Inspection Confidence and Inspection Extent values.
DE84166
Previously, when you created an analysis where the value in the Design Temperature field was zero and the Stress Lookup Table was Piping or Pressure Vessel, the Allowable Stress field was blank, although the other stress input fields contained valid values. This issue has been resolved.DE84129
Previously, the values in the Recommended Inspection Interval, Inspection Confidence, and Inspection Extent fields were incorrect in the LC59 Inspection Strategy record. This issue has been resolved. Now, the values have been correctly updated as follows:
  • Recommended Inspection Interval: 180 months
  • Inspection Confidence: Low
  • Inspection Extent: UT shear wave 25% of all potential locations
DE83854
Previously, the value in the Recommended Inspection Interval field was incorrect in the LC42 Inspection Strategy. This issue has been resolved. Now, the value has been correctly updated to 240 months.DE83615
Previously, in the RBI Asset Summary and RBI Unit Summary pages, when you tried to delete an RBI component that had related records linked to it, the Delete button () was disabled. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Delete button () is enabled, and, if you try to delete a component with related records, an error message appears, stating that you cannot.DE82415
Previously, when you copied an RBI Analysis that had a linked Criticality Other Damage Mechanism (Qualitative DM), the DF field was incorrectly set to null. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Probability Category field will be validated for Criticality Other Damage Mechanisms.DE82369
Previously, when you accessed the No Recommendations section in the Risk Based Inspection Overview page, an error occurred in the following scenarios:
  • You had an active RBI 580 license but not an RBI 581 license.
  • You had an active RBI 581 license but not an RBI 580 license.
This issue has been resolved.
DE82358
Previously, when calculating an RBI 581 analysis that has a Ferritic Component Atmospheric Corrosion Degradation Mechanism, if the value in the Selected Corrosion Rate field was set to Estimated and the value in the Base Material Estimated Rate field was blank, an invalid error message appeared, stating that the Field Base Material Calculated Corrosion Rate was required. This issue has been resolved. The field caption for the MI_RBDEMEEV_BM_EST_RT_N field is now Estimated Rate.DE82230
Previously, when viewing the Inspection History for a DM that was related to an RBI Analysis, if you tried to unlink a locked Inspection from the DM, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE82226
Previously, you could not promote an asset to ASM although you were a member of the MI Mechanical Integrity Power role. This issue has been resolved. To facilitate this fix, the MI ASM Analyst security group has been added to the MI Mechanical Integrity Power role.DE81525
Previously, you could calculate an analysis only if the Design Temperature of the component was greater than or equal to the Operating Temperature. The behavior was the same for both positive and negative values in the temperature fields. This issue has been resolved. Now, if the value in Design Temperature field is less than zero, you can calculate the analysis with any value in the Operating Temperature field. Similarly, you could calculate an analysis only if the Design Pressure of the component was greater than or equal to the Operating Pressure. The behavior was the same for both positive and negative values in the pressure fields. This issue has been resolved. Now, if the value in the Design Pressure field is less than zero, you can calculate the analysis with any value in the Operating Pressure field. DE81272
Previously, if you were using an Oracle database, the values in the following fields were sometimes set incorrectly:
  • DF field for Internal Corrosion DME
  • Corrosion Factor field for External Corrosion DME
This issue has been resolved.
DE80441