CERTIFICATION DESCRIPTION

Fitness-For-Service (FFS) is essential guideline for a run-repair-replace decision making process to help determine if pressurized equipment containing flaws that have been identified by inspection can continue to operate safely for certain period of time. The methods covered by FFS are suitable, compatible and in some cases required with and from major inspection codes and standards (i.e. ASME, API). Applicable to most types of pressurized equipment, piping and piping systems and storage tanks where flaws and damage/ degradation has been detected or identified.

Detailed understanding of FFS will help you competently and confidently discuss any issue with the integrity consultants or authorities.

This certification provides proof of ability in guidance for conducting FFS assessments using methodologies as covered in the de-facto industry standard API 579/ASME FFS-1, applicable to the pressurized equipment. The scheme has been adopted and revised to correspond to the latest edition of the code (June 2016), and covers both the main code body of knowledge (API 579-1/ASME FFS-1  Fitness-For-Service) as well as illustrative implementation examples as given in API 579-2/ASME FFS-2 - Fitness-For-Service Example Problem Manual.

Detailed knowledge and understanding of the design and inspection codes is pre-requisite for attendance to this course. Such as ASME Sec. VIII Div. 1, ASME Sec. VIII Div. 2, ASME Sec. I, ASME B31.1, ASME B31.3, API 650, API 620.

WHO SHOULD APPLY?

• Design Engineers interested in design verification using Fitness for Service assessment procedures
• Maintenance personnel, operations supervisors, and process specialists who are expected to make decisions regarding the suitability of equipment for continued service;
• Plant Inspection Engineers responsible for evaluation of inspection results and overall plant safety and reliability
• Plant Inspectors responsible for managing the integrity of ageing process equipment, pipelines, boilers and storage tanks;
• Refining and Petrochemical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Process Engineers interested in Fitness-for-Service as a tool to better understand the overall plant state and effects of the operation on the equipment state.