About RBI Global Preferences

The Global Preference settings for Risk Based Inspection contains items that correspond with the following settings:

• Recommendation Creation Enabled: When this setting is enabled, you can create RBI Recommendation records in RBI. This setting is enabled by default.
  • If ASM integration is disabled, and you want to recommend actions and manage mitigated risk for degradation mechanisms in RBI, you should accept the baseline configuration.
  • If you want to recommend actions and manage mitigated risk in ASM, you should modify the baseline configuration by clearing this check box.

  Note: When this setting is enabled, the Generate Recommendations using Policy Manager setting should also be enabled.

• Enable Recommendations to be Generated at Created State: This setting is disabled by default and can only be enabled if the Recommendation Creation Enabled setting is also enabled. The RBI Best Practice assumes that you will create RBI Recommendation records only for calculated RBI Analyses whose associated RBI Criticality Analysis record has been transitioned to the Risk Completed state. This documentation, therefore, assumes that you will not enable this setting. When this setting is enabled:
  • You can create RBI Recommendation records for RBI Analyses whose associated RBI Criticality Analysis record is in the Created state.
  • You cannot create RBI Recommendation records for RBI Analyses whose associated RBI Criticality Analysis record has been transitioned to the Risk Completed state.
• Allow Override of Calculated Unmitigated Risk Values: When this setting is enabled, you can use the Risk Matrix to change the calculated unmitigated risk values manually. This setting is disabled by default. This check box is enabled only when the Risk Assessment Enabled check box is selected.
  • If ASM integration is enabled and you want to accept the Meridium Enterprise APM system calculations for unmitigated risk, which calculates the unmitigated risk and displays the values on the Degradation Mechanism datasheet, you should accept the default selection.
  • If ASM integration is enabled, you are using a custom calculator to calculate unmitigated risk and display it on the Risk Matrix, and you want users to be able to modify the calculated unmitigated risk, you should enable this setting by selecting this check box.
• Consider Half-Life when Determining Inspection Task Interval: This setting plays a role in determining how the Desired Interval field in certain Inspection Task records is populated. This setting is disabled by default. If the Thickness Monitoring license is active, and you have TM Analyses for the Equipment that you analyze in RBI, you should enable this setting so that additional values will be considered when determining the value that is populated in the Desired Interval field in Inspection Task records that are created from or linked to an RBI Recommendation record whose Damage Mechanism field contains the value Criticality Calculator Internal Corrosion.