Fourth Quarter of 2022

Release Date: December 13, 2022

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on this date.

Table 1. Enhancements and New Features
The following enhancements and new features have been added.
Description	Tracking ID
To enhance usability, the MIExecutionService is now available in the APM server. It processes jobs in the Inspection Management, Integrity Mobile, Risk Based Inspection, and Thickness Monitoring module queues. The MIExecutionService uses a single shared ActiveMQ queue service across APM.	US554741
To improve usability, you can now view the Inspection Task datasheet in a Datasheet window instead of a new tab, when you select the Task ID hyperlink in the existing tasks section of the Inspection Plan page.	US547779
To enhance usability, the Suggest Potential Degradation Mechanisms (PDMs) feature has been introduced. This feature provides the following functionalities: Suggests Potential Degradation Mechanisms along with the basis for an RBI Component. Ability to suggest PDMs in bulk for RBI Components from the RBI Asset workspace and Corrosion Loop workspace. Enables you to decide whether to link suggested PDMs to the RBI Component or not. Provides flexibility to add or update suggestion criteria by modifying the RBI Degradation Mechanism Screening Policy through Policy Manager. To facilitate this enhancement, select the Enable Suggestion of Potential Degradation Mechanism option in the RBI Admin Preferences workspace. For more information on modifying the policy, refer to KBA 000039240.	US519095
To improve usability, you can now view the Asset info summary in the RBI Asset View page. To facilitate this enhancement, a new button for Asset info summary has been added next to the Asset ID in the RBI Asset View page. You can now get a high-level view of the health of an asset which consist of the following information: Asset health indicator counts by alert level RBI risk Thickness Monitoring remaining life Open Inspection recommendations Work history You can also use hyperlinks to navigate to the Thickness Monitoring and Inspection Management modules of the asset. You can configure all the fields and values displayed on the Asset info summary in the Asset Info Configuration workspace under the RBI Admin Preferences page.	US518766
Risk Based Inspection pages have been enhanced to improve usability: Analysis Page: RBI 580 and RBI 581 Analysis page now displays Analysis Details, related Degradation Mechanisms, and Consequence Evaluations in a single page as collapsible sections. This allows you to view relevant data related to RBI Analysis in the same page, which improves readability. RBI 580 or 581 Risk Matrix summary is now available in the Analysis header. On selection, the detailed RBI and ASM Risk Matrix appears in a separate window. RBI Component page: Now displays Component Overview, Component Details, and related Potential Degradation Mechanisms in a single page as collapsible sections. This allows you to view relevant data related to the RBI Component in the same page, which improves readability. RBI Corrosion Loop page: RBI Corrosion Loop datasheet has been reorganized to enhance usability. RBI Corrosion Loop page now displays two tabs, Corrosion Loop Overview and Corrosion Loop Details. The Corrosion Loop Details section displays Corrosion Loop Details and related Potential Degradation Mechanisms as collapsible sections. This allows you to view relevant data in the same page, which improves readability. Enhanced Search functionality for Potential Degradation Mechanisms: Search functionality when adding Potential Degradation Mechanisms to RBI Corrosion Loops or RBI Components has been enhanced to retain previous selections when using the search filter option. Enhanced left pane tree navigation for RBI Asset and RBI Process Unit: RBI Asset navigation tree displays all its RBI Component and related RBI Analyses when loaded initially, regardless of the selected level in the left navigation pane. This allows you to navigate directly to any tree item without the need to first navigate to an intermediary level. RBI Process Unit navigation trees display all Corrosion loops, related RBI Components and its related RBI Analyses when loaded initially, regardless of selected level in the left navigation tree. This allows you to navigate directly to any tree item without the need to first navigate to an intermediary level. RBI Asset and RBI Process Unit navigation trees now include RBI 580 and RBI 581 Analyses. This allows you to navigate directly to an Analysis without needing to first navigate to an RBI Component. RBI Asset and RBI Process Unit navigation trees now include search and analysis filter capabilities. This allows you to focus the tree results. RBI Asset and RBI Process Unit navigation trees now include action buttons which are available depending on the tree selection. This allows you to perform relevant actions directly from the navigation tree. RBI Analysis buttons: Duplicate Analysis, Apply Analysis, and Create What-If Analysis have been added to the RBI Asset and RBI Process Unit navigation trees for better visibility and ease of use.	US461868 US467251 US447347
When creating an RBI Component from the Asset Summary or Unit Summary workspace, the Component Types in the Component Type drop-down list are now populated based on the Component Family selected in the Create New RBI Component window. To facilitate this enhancement, a new system code table, MI RBI COMPONENT FAMILIES, has been added to the System Codes and Tables page. The system code table contains the Component Families and the supported Component Types associated with the MI RBI COMPONENT TYPES system code table. Note: For more information on the baseline Component Families and the Component Types that are supported for each Component Family, refer to the MI RBI COMPONENT FAMILIES System Code Table topic.	US446310
To improve usability, the following changes have been made to the Component:<name> workspace: The Component Overview tab has been removed and replaced with the COMPONENT OVERVIEW sub-section. The Potential Degradation Mechanisms tab has been removed and replaced with the POTENTIAL DEGRADATION MECHANISMS sub-section. The Component Details tab has been removed and replaced with the COMPONENT DETAILS sub-section.	US446303
To improve usability, the Potential Degradation Mechanisms tab has been removed from the Corrosion Loop: <name> workspace. You can now select the Corrosion Loop Details tab, and then expand the POTENTIAL DEGRADATION MECHANISMS sub-section to view the list of Potential Degradation Mechanisms (PDMs) that are linked to a Corrosion Loop.	US443994
To improve usability, the following changes have been made to the left pane tree navigation for RBI Asset and RBI Process Unit: RBI Asset navigation tree displays all its RBI Component and related RBI Analyses when loaded initially, regardless of the selected level in the left navigation pane. This allows you to navigate directly to any tree item without the need to first navigate to an intermediary level. RBI Process Unit navigation trees display all Corrosion loops, related RBI Components and its related RBI Analyses when loaded initially, regardless of selected level in the left navigation tree. This allows you to navigate directly to any tree item without the need to first navigate to an intermediary level. RBI Asset and RBI Process Unit navigation trees now include RBI 580 and RBI 581 Analyses. This allows you to navigate directly to an Analysis without the need to first navigate to an RBI Component.	US443991
To enhance usability, a new inspection planning methodology, Alternative Inspection Plan, has been introduced. Using this feature, you can perform the following functionalities: Create inspection tasks from the inspection plan details without generating RBI recommendations. Review critical information related to damage mechanisms, inspection strategies, and schedule parameters within inspection plan details before implementing the tasks Add inspection plan details manually for damage mechanisms or update the system-generated inspection plan details. Implement multiple inspection plan details together. Edit or update the approved inspection plan and capture the revision history. View the entire equipment summary by accessing newly introduced Asset Info functionality within an inspection plan. To facilitate this enhancement, enable the Alternative Inspection Plan option from the application settings. Note: This is an optional functionality. The Alternative Inspection Plan does not support the following workflows: RBI Recommendation Compliance Management Promotion to Asset Strategy Management RBI Inspection Grouping	US528269

Table 2. Resolved Issues

The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.

Description

Tracking ID

Previously, the Desired Interval Basis field on Inspection Tasks implemented from Risk Based Inspection was set to RBI Recommendation or RBI 581 Recommendation. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Desired Interval Basis field on Inspection Tasks implemented from Risk Based Inspection is set to RBI 580 or RBI 581 respectively. The Desired Interval Basis field on Inspection Tasks implemented from manually created Inspection Plan Details is set as User Designed.

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Previously, when searching for Potential Degradation Mechanisms from the Component Overview section or the Corrosion Loop Overview section, previously selected Potential Degradation Mechanisms were not retained. This issue has been resolved.

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Previously, when you accessed an RBI Component, the analysis table in the Component Overview section sometimes failed to load, resulting in a blank screen. You had to refresh the browser to view the related analyses. This issue has been resolved.

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Previously, when you attempted to delete an RBI Analysis, there was no indication that the delete process had started, and you selected the Delete icon multiple times, resulting in an error. This issue has been resolved. Now, a busy cursor is displayed when you select Delete on an RBI Analysis.

DE183466

Previously, when you attempted to link the protected components to a Pressure Relief Device component on a Corrosion Loop, components which were not eligible to be linked were displayed in the list. This issue has been resolved.

DE154170

Previously, when the RBI Evergreening Preference was set to RBI 581, hyperlinks for the Asset ID, Component, and Analysis ID columns in the Pending Evergreening tab of the RBI Bulk Evergreening workspace were not displayed. This issue has been resolved.

DE152646

Previously, the RBI Corrosion Loop table in the Unit Summary workspace took a long time to load. Now, performance improvements have been made to reduce the time to load the table.

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Previously, the field captions of the following family fields contained extra spaces, special characters, or spelling mistakes. This issue has been resolved. Now, the field captions have been corrected to the captions listed in the following table.


Family Name	Field Captions
RBI 581 Consequence Evaluation	Allow Override of Total Financial Consequence Component Area Damage AINL -CONT Large Component Area Damage AINL -CONT Medium Component Area Damage AINL -CONT Rupture Component Area Damage AINL -CONT Small Component Area Damage AIL -CONT Large Component Area Damage AIL -CONT Medium Component Area Damage AIL -CONT Rupture Component Area Damage AIL -CONT Small Damage Cost Small Personnel Injury Area AINL INST Large Result of Serious Injury Soil Type Under Tank Bottom Time to Release Small Time to Release Medium Time to Release Large Time to Release Rupture
RBI Plan	Dmg Type 1 Dmg Type 2
RBI Recommendation	Estimated Cost
RBI 581 External Damage Evaluation	Corrosion Rate Adjustment for Bad Design/Fabrication Corrosion Rate Adjustment Factor for Insulation Condition Corrosion Rate Adjustment Factor for Bad Equipment Design/Fabrication Corrosion Rate Adjustment Factor for Complexity Corrosion Rate Adjustment Factor for Insulation Type Corrosion Rate Adjustment Factor for Interface for Soil and Water Component Area Damage AIL -CONT Medium Component Area Damage AIL -CONT Rupture Component Area Damage AIL -CONT Small
RBI 581 Brittle Fracture Damage Evaluation	Is Equipment Or Circuit Subject to Shock Chilling Is Equipment Or Circuit Subject to EVN Cracking
RBI 581 Risk Analysis	Total POF -RBI Date Total SHE Risk -RBI Date Financial Risk -Injury
Potential Degradation Mechanisms	Degradation Mechanism ID
Criticality Calculator RBI Components	Deadleg Flag Injection Point Flag
Criticality Degradation Mech Evaluation	Cyanides
RBI 581 Mechanical Fatigue Damage Evaluation	Is Post Weld Heat Treated (PWHT)?
Thickness Monitoring Task	Source Key
Criticality Over Pressure Deg. Mech. Eval.	Cyanides
Criticality Third Party Deg. Mech. Eval.	Cyanides
Criticality Leak Deg. Mech. Eval.	Cyanides

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Table 3. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

Description

Tracking ID

You can now update What-If RBI Criticality Analyses using the RBI 580 Data Loader. To facilitate this enhancement, the RBI 580 Data Loader template is updated to include the Event Type column on the RBI Criticality Analysis worksheet and all Consequence Evaluation, Degradation Mechanism Evaluation, and Damage Mechanism worksheets. When the Event Type is set to W, the system updates the analysis with the matching Analysis Unique Identifier.

Note: If the What-If Analysis does not exist, an error appears, indicating that the What-If Analysis cannot be created using data loaders.

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When calculating an RBI PRD Criticality Analysis and the leakage rate for minor and moderate leaks, the calculations are now based on API 581, third edition.

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You can now correctly reference the RBI Component and Equipment of an RBI Criticality Analysis and its related RBI Degradation Mechanisms that are related to from their respective datasheets after applying or copying the analysis. To facilitate this enhancement, the following fields have been updated to match the Component and Equipment you are applying or copying to.


Family Name	Field Names
RBI Degradation Mechanisms	Component ID Equipment ID

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You can now select and link a Protected RBI Component to a PRD component from the navigation pane in RBI Asset workspace. To facilitate this enhancement, the

button has been added to the navigation pane in the RBI Asset workspace.

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You can now export RBI Criticality Analyses to an excel format from either of the below workspaces:

The RBI Evergreening workspace
The RBI Analysis Export workspace

The exported file will be in the Risk Based Inspection (RBI) Data Loader template format. This will provide the ability to modify the exported analysis data and re-import for easy bulk editing. To facilitate this enhancement, Export Analyses feature has been introduced.

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You can now select the field displaying the Inspection Priority and Risk Category data in the page heading to view the Risk Matrix. To facilitate this enhancement, the Risk Matrix section has been removed from the Asset Summary workspace for RBI Criticality Analyses.

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Table 4. Resolved Issues

The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.

Description

Tracking ID

Previously, the following fields in the RBI Criticality Analysis family displayed the Unit of Measure (UOM) incorrectly as Pounds Force per Square Inch Absolute (PSIA):

Field Id	Field Caption
MI_CRITANAL_TB_OP_PRES_CHL_N	Tube Operating Press - Channel
MI_CRITANAL_TB_OP_PRES_SHL_N	Tube Operating Pressure Shell
MI_CRITANAL_TB_DELTA_PRES_C	Tube Delta Pressure

This Issue has been resolved. Now, the UOM value is displayed as Pounds/Sq Inch Gage.

Note: You must enter the value in the Analysis for Tube Press - Channel field with unit of measurement as PSIG.

DE179745

Previously, if you cleared the Toxic Mixture Shell check box on the Criticality Consequence Evaluation of an RBI Criticality Analysis, the values in the Toxic Fluid Shell Side and Percent Toxic Shell boxes did not get cleared as expected. This issue has been resolved. Now, the existing values in the Toxic Fluid Shell Side and Percent Toxic Shell boxes get cleared and the boxes are also disabled.

DE175499

Previously, when re-implementing an Inspection Group on a Process Unit, the previous Inspection Group’s recommendations were not archived if the related Inspection Plan was in the modified state. This issue has been resolved. Now, when re-implementing a new Inspection Group, the previous Inspection Group’s recommendations will be archived, and only the newly created Inspection Group Recommendations will be linked to the modified inspection plan.

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Previously, in the RBI Criticality Analysis, the Allowable Stress field was populated based on the Material Specification and Material Grade fields in the Tank Stress table. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Design Code and Code Year fields are also considered for populating the Allowable Stress field.

DE156070

Previously, when you attempted to execute the RBI 580 Dataloader, if the value provided in the fields on the Analysis, Consequence Evaluation, or Degradation Mechanism Evaluation sheets were null, the field value was updated as null. This issue has been resolved. Now, if the value provided for the fields are null, the field is skipped and the default value or any mapped value is displayed.

DE154518

Previously, when duplicating an RBI PRD Criticality Analysis, when at least one related Degradation Mechanism was not selected, an error occurred, and the RBI RBI PRD Criticality Analysis was not copied. This issue has been resolved.

DE145892

Previously, if the PV Stress or Piping Stress reference tables contained multiple records with the same combination of Design Code, Code Year, Material Specification, Material Grade and Metal Temperature, the Allowable stress field in RBI Criticality Analysis was populated arbitrarily with one of the records returned. This issue has been resolved. Now, the record with the lowest Allowable stress value from the records returned is used to populate the Allowable Stress field.

DE145435

Previously when you implemented RBI 580 Recommended Actions to existing Inspection Tasks in bulk, the data for the Recommended Inspection Task appeared only for the first Recommended Action. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Recommended Inspection Task data appears for each Recommended Action.

DE144641

Previously, when calculating an RBI Criticality Analysis, the toxic evaporation rate was calculated using an incorrect wind speed factor. This issue has been resolved. Now, the toxic evaporation rate is calculated correctly, and will be used in populating the Toxic Mixed Release Rate field and in the RBI Criticality Analysis calculation.

DE120477

Previously, if the Design Temperature value was less than the minimum value of Metal Temperature in the Piping Stress or PV Stress table records, the Allowable Stress field in RBI Criticality Analysis was calculated incorrectly. This issue has been resolved. Now, if the Design Temperature value is less than the minimum value of Metal Temperature, then the Allowable Stress field is calculated based on the minimum value of Metal Temperature.

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Table 5. Obsolete Features

The following features are no longer available.

Description

Tracking ID

The following catalog queries are no longer used and have been removed from APM.

Query	Path
Environmental Consequence	Public\Meridium\Modules\Mechanical Integrity\Queries\Dashboard Queries
Flammable Consequence	Public\Meridium\Modules\Mechanical Integrity\Queries\Dashboard Queries
Production Loss Consequence	Public\Meridium\Modules\Mechanical Integrity\Queries\Dashboard Queries
Toxic Consequence	Public\Meridium\Modules\Mechanical Integrity\Queries\Dashboard Queries
Assets In Hierarchy	Public\Meridium\Modules\Mechanical Integrity\Queries\Navigation Bar Queries
Recommendations by Asset	Public\Meridium\Modules\Risk Based Inspection\Queries
Select Unit for Grouping	Public\Meridium\Modules\Risk Based Inspection\Queries

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