API RP 691-Advanced Risk Based Machinery Management

What are the Goals?

By the end of this API RP 691 - Advanced Risk Based Machinery Management training course, participants will learn to:

• Confidently implement the risk-based machinery management framework based on API RP 691
• Master the implementation toolbox from API RP 691
• Learn various maintenance management approaches
• Optimize decision-making considering safety and economic aspects
• Optimally use risk and reliability in asset management

Who is this Training Course for?

Main benefit from the course will be for the following:

• Mechanical / Rotating Machinery Maintenance Engineers and Maintenance Personnel
• Machine Design Engineers
• R&D Engineers
• Plant Engineers and Operations Supervisors
• Refining and Petrochemical Engineers

Daily Agenda

Day One: RBMM Introduction, Feasibility, and Design

•  Machinery Risk Management – scope, limitations, work process overview
• Normative References, terms, definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations
• Risk Assessment Methodology (Annex A)
• Feasibility and Concept Selection
• Technical Risk Categorization; Technology Readiness Level, Product Qualification, and Audit
• API 691 Feasibility and Concept Selection Facility
• Guideline of API 691 Facility Audits (Annex G)
• Front-end Engineering Design
• Preliminary Machinery Risk Assessment
• Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Analysis
• Machinery Design and Selection
• Process and Instrument Diagram (P&ID) Reviews

Day Two: FEED, Detailed Design, Installation and Commissioning

•  Long Lead Machinery, vendor Qualifications
• Operations, Maintenance, and Optional Field Testing, Facilities Strategies
• Detailed Design, Detailed Machinery Risk Assessment
• Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
• Risk Mitigation-Task Selection Process
• RAM-2 Analysis
• Safe Operating Limits and Integrity Operating Windows
• Qualification of Manufacturing and Design
• Start-up and Commissioning Plans
• Machinery Standard Operating Procedures
• Facilities Completion Planning and Execution
• Implementation of Risk Mitigation Tasks and Strategies
• Installation, Commissioning, Decommissioning, and Decontamination
• Pre-start-up Safety Review and Optional Tests

Day Three: Operation and Maintenance 

• Field Risk Assessments, Risk Mitigation
• Operating Company Implementation
• RAM-2 Analysis
• Safe Operating Limits and Integrity Operating Windows
• Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Systems Guidelines (Annex E)
• Guideline on Machinery Prognostics (Annex F)
• API 691 Datasheets (Annex H)
• API 691 FMEA Worksheet (Annex I)

Day Four: Documentation, Training and Qualification, Practical implementation 

• Documentation and Recordkeeping
• Documentation During product lifecycle
• Operation and Maintenance Training
• Proof of Qualification
• Guideline on Risk Mitigation Task Selection (Annex D)
• Type II and Type III Evaluation Examples / Exercises