The ladder to success: Risk-based inspection reduces costs

摘要

With today's rapid communications technologies and a highly interconnected world economy, changes in one part of the world rapidly disseminate to another. Whether in times of fast economic growth or times of economic slowdown, companies able to make swift smart decisions that allow them to adapt to an ever-changing environment will succeed where others fail. To make sound decisions that allow a company to capitalize on a rapidly growing economy or to weather a storm requires expertise, which may not always be available in-house. ABB offers a consultancy service with expertise in the areas of maintenance and reliability, process safety, and industrial energy efficiency. ABB's consultants have a wide range of experience and a good track record, assisting industries with critically important decisions for their profitability and survival. Consultants are frequently employed by companies seeking professional advice from experts with high levels of skill, experience and understanding in areas outside the scope of their normal daily business. For example, consultants may be employed to identify the optimal strategy by which a company could survive an economic downturn, or how a company should best renew its plant's equipment to maximize productivity, or identify what a company is required to do to comply with new regulations. Few companies can justify maintaining such specialized skills in-house, especially when the expertise is drawn upon relatively infrequently.