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What is asset integrity management?
Asset integrity management (AIM) is a systematic approach to ensuring that industrial assets operate safely, efficiently and cost-effectively throughout their life cycle. Advanced AIM concepts involve identifying risks and hazards and developing corresponding inspection and maintenance management strategies. The central goals are to minimise downtime, reduce costs, increase safety, ensure regulatory compliance and maximise asset lifespan.
TÜV SÜD provides comprehensive asset integrity management services. Our experts ensure that your process plant has the right processes, procedures and tools in place. This helps your process plant assets and infrastructure perform their required functions effectively, efficiently, and at the highest quality standards. It also helps minimise your total cost of ownership and protect health, safety and the environment, such it generates sustainability.
Why asset integrity management is important
An asset integrity management system assesses all aspects of plant operations essential to plant safety and plant integrity. It ensures that every aspect is properly designed, constructed, tested, operated and inspected.
Plant operators benefit from optimised resources, accurate predictions of remaining useful life of equipment, high plant availability and plannability.
Further, an asset integrity management system verifies that the plant is maintained in a sustainable, holistic and systematic way. This helps achieve service and performance integrity without compromising on health, safety and the environment.
How TÜV SÜD can help you with asset integrity management
TÜV SÜD offers a comprehensive suite of asset integrity management services that includes asset integrity audits, risk-based inspections, failure analysis, integrity assessment and more.
Our expert team is qualified to address technical, managerial, organisational and practical topics across your entire organisation.
With a global presence and up to date knowledge of diverse regulations, we can bring you our asset integrity management expertise in worldwide markets. This will facilitate your global market access and help you fulfil the expectations of multiple stakeholders, from regulators to the public.
Our asset integrity audits, inspections and assessments give special attention to digitalisation of AIM processes. Digital asset integrity management (D-AIM) applies digital technologies such as sensors, data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. This helps enhance the effectiveness of AIM processes. D-AIM enables real-time monitoring and assessment of asset performance and condition.
What our asset integrity management service includes
TÜV SÜD’s asset integrity management service follows our AIM pyramid. This is a logical construct that represents a complete solution for high plant availability, plannability, digital-based predictive analytics, optimised resources and optimised total cost of ownership.
The base of the AIM value pyramid: Asset data collection
This typically involves all the activities related to data collection. It includes materials testing, Non-destructive testing (NDT), Permanent monitoring, Corrosion survey, Industrial inspections, Vendor inspections, Quality assurance / Quality control (QA/QC), Expediting and NDT level III services.
The middle of the AIM value pyramid: Data analysis and data evaluation, provision of information
This includes topics such as risk-based inspection (RBI), Fitness-for-service (FFS), Reliability availability maintainability (RAM), Reliability centred maintenance (RCM), Failure analysis, Failure mode effect analysis (FMEA), Mechanical integrity consultancy and asset integrity data services.
The top of the AIM value pyramid: Systems and services
This is the strategic level that covers AIM organisational matters, AIM knowledge management, and AIM policies on the corporate, entity and local levels. This includes AIM systems, AIM system implementation, AIM system audits and other activities. An example is RBI system implementation on plant, entity or corporate level.
