1. Assertive Integrity Management through Robotics for
Operating Engineering Systems
By Dr S.R. Ravishankar
Core Troope Limited, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Summary
The industrial world is advancing competitively towards automation for
higher productivity and production economy. Attempts are on in maximizing
efficiency, offering high quality products and services towards stabilizing
economic growth in a goal towards eradication of global poverty. The subject
of asset integrity covers the whole gamut of land, water and air based
industries. A simple ‘paradigm shift’ in a thought process towards Asset
Integrity Management (AIM) results in a perspective that introduces a novel
concept. Coined as Assertive Integrity Management (ASIM) this is applicable
for all engineering operating systems-plant and machinery. As an analogy,
the quality of assertiveness in living beings per se does not imply that one is
imposing or forcing. It on the other hand, naturally inculcates cognitive
abilities to result in qualities such as leadership, proactiveness, boldness,
self-assurance and confidence. To effectively manage a group or
organisation these attributes are to be rearranged in the right sequence and
actioned in a stepwise manner. The outcomes will be a set of constrained
actions with clearly known degrees of freedom. This is essentially the
forerunner in introducing the concept of using assertive integrity
management for operating plant and machinery. ASIM is essentially derived
from the principles of Asset Integrity Management (AIM). The field of ASIM
once developed can throw open ‘a plethora of opportunity’ for all
engineering business systems currently struggling in the pursuit of
managing asset integrity. ASIM is not a “twisting arm” exercise, nor intended
to deviate away but only augment AIM methodology.