The Degradation Management section in the RBI 581 Details Page includes an Approval and Tasks tab. This can be used for managing Approvals, Inspection Effectiveness, and Tasks.
There are four sections that appear based on the your progress.
Progress Tracker: This tracks three steps:
Approve Assessment
Next Inspection Effectiveness
Choose From Suggested Tasks
Approval Section: When you finalizes the assessment approval here, the first step in the progress tracker turns blue, allowing you to proceed to the next step.
Next Inspection Effectiveness: After Final Approval, you can select the next inspection effectiveness. Once selected, the second step in the progress tracker turns blue, revealing the final step. This is not applicable and is therefore not shown for Non-Age-Related and Strategy-based Degradation Mechanisms.
Choose From Suggested / Additional Tasks: Based on the chosen inspection effectiveness, you will see two or more tasks and must select at least one. After selecting a task, all three steps in the progress tracker turn blue, and the fourth section appears. When only one task is suggested, it will automatically be selected.
Tasks to be performed: This final section appears in the bottom of the tab and provides additional information about the chosen task and is read-only.
Approving the RBI 581 Assessment
When the RBI 581 assessment is Final Approved the CoF and PoF forms become read-only. To learn more about Approval see: IMS Approvals.
Note that RBI581 assessments do not immediately impact Schedules: If an assessment is Final Approved, you can add it to a Schedule. Also when changes are made to the RBI assessment, you will need to update the Schedule with the changes as it will not be synced automatically.
Task Cards
After choosing the Next Inspection Effectiveness, and selecting a Task, a new card section appears below the Calculate button in the Results (right) pane.
This card displays the task name, followed by the next inspection effectiveness in brackets, and the task description (if available). Also the RBI Calculated Interval (in months) and the RBI Calculated NID is shown. When a Schedule is present, an Info button appears next to these two fields, showing the Schedule’s Calculated Interval and Calculated Next Due Date when clicked. If no Schedule is in place, these Info buttons are not displayed.
Controlled Schedule Updates for Approved Assessments
In the results pane, on the right side of the Task card, a blue button initially appears, allowing you to add the RBI results to a Schedule.
Once added, the button turns green, and clicking it opens the selected Schedule.
If the RBI assessment is reverted to DRAFT, modified (e.g., PoF recalculation), and Final Approved again, any resulting risk changes may cause a mismatch between the RBI assessment and Schedule values. In such cases, the green button changes to yellow with the label "Consider Update."
To learn more about adding Tasks to Schedules see Defining Inspection Schedules.
Updating Schedule Dates
The Consider Update button will appear if the RBI Interval (MII) and Calculated NID differ from those in the Schedule (Interval and Calculated Next Due Date). You can verify the Schedule data by clicking the Info buttons next to Interval and Calculated NID. (In this example, the RBI assessment’s Interval is 36 months while the Schedule’s Calculated Interval is 156 months.)
Clicking the Consider Update button aligns the Schedule values with the RBI calculations. The example below shows how the Schedule’s Calculated Interval was updated to 36 months, which in turn adjusted the Schedule’s Calculated Next Due Date (= Last Insp. Date + Calculated Interval) and the Schedule’s Next Inspection Date.
