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 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. For Non-Age-Related and Strategy-based Degradation Mechanisms this is not applicable and is therefore not shown.
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
After the PoF and CoF is approved you can Approve the RBI 581 Assessment. To Approve the RBI 581Assessment
Click the Approval and Tasks Tab.
Click the Approve button. To learn more see IMS Approvals.
When the RBI 581 assessment is Final Approved the CoF and PoF forms become read-only.
In certain cases, such as when a Damage Mechanism is not susceptible or when the PoF Upper Value cannot be reached, the MII cannot be calculated. In such a case you can enter the Legal/Local Inspection Interval Target. IMS then calculates the NID using this interval. The assessment can then be approved successfully. Note: PoF and CoF still must be calculated beforehand.
RBI581 assessments do not immediately impact Schedules: If an assessment is Final Approved, you can manually add it to a Schedule. Also when changes are made to the RBI assessment, you will need to manually 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.
To add the task to a Schedule:
Hover over Not Implemented. It will change to Add to Schedule.
Click Add to Schedule.
Click + Create new Schedule. (Or select an existing Schedule - in this case you should consider to check Clear user date and interval if you want to use the RBI data.)
Fill in the Schedule details in the pop-up. By default the Use Calculate Interval box will be checked if a Calculated Interval exists and the RBI Calculated Interval and Calculated Next Due Date will show. Note: The User Date and User Interval are not mandatory if the Use Calculated Interval is checked and there is a Calculated Interval and Calculated Next Due Date.
Click Save.
The Task will now be included in the Schedule Details Page’s Schedule Task section. Here the Activity Info side panel (opened by clicking the Info button in the grid toolbar) will indicate which Degradation Mechanism the Task relates to.
Back in the RBI Details Page, once the Task has been added to a Schedule, the button on the RBI Task card turns green. To open the Schedule:
Click the green Implemented button.
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 (Calculated 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 14.85 months while the Schedule’s Calculated Interval is 48 months.)
To align the Schedule values with the RBI calculations:
Click Consider Update.
The Schedule data will be updated.
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.
