Fitness-for-Service Assessment

DNV can assist you in performing a multidisciplinary engineering analysis of equipment to determine its fitness for continued service. If you operate an aging facility, we can determine if your equipment meets fitness-for-service or mechanical integrity codes and regulations and if your plant is in compliance with OSHA 1910, Process Safety Management Regulations. We have the expertise to:
 

• Develop strategies and procedures for plant life extension
• Provide practical and cost-sensitive solutions to difficult FFS problems 
• Utilize advanced FFS techniques to extend specific equipment life 
• Determine the impact of increasing severity of operations on equipment integrity
• Evaluate changes in service that enhance equipment performance 
• Determine the root cause of failures through more rigorous in-service inspections and provide expert support in emergency situations 
• Predict remaining life and assess mechanical integrity utilizing specially designed software

See also: Integrity Assessment and Management.