Pipe connections are a considerable risk for leakages. During a Turnaround thousands of flanges are opened and closed. Incidentally flange connections are closed the wrong way or wrong gaskets are used. The consequences, depending on the functionality of the pipe system, might be disastrous. Production might come to a grinding halt for a considerable duration and start-up losses caused by leaking flanges take an unexpected big bite out of your budget. Enter PDM’s Flange Integrity Management program: with FIM, PDM guarantees you won’t have any losses due to leaking flanges.

Lack of quality in flange connection management

Leaking flanges should be avoided at all cost. But what causes leaking flanges?  Insufficient guarantees for the quality of flange connection management are very often the root cause for this problem. This problem is composed by a mix of triggering elements:

  • No uniformity of procedures
  • Ambiguous quality standards
  • Unclear responsibilities
  • Inadequate knowledge of some of the flange technicians
  • Training not technical enough
  • Not clear if flange maintenance is executed properly.

Tailor made for maximum impact

PDM doesn’t believe in standard approaches. In order to generate maximum impact, we always choose tailor made solutions. Flange Integrity Management focuses on the process followed by technicians during flange maintenance. We guarantee flanges are closed correctly during this stage, so problems afterwards are reduced to almost zero. To achieve this, we use following tools:

  • Flange Integrity Management Manual
  • Training for flange technicians
  • Quick Reference Book for flange technicians
  • Quality evaluation system for working procedures and practices
  • FIM application for quality checks, real time insights and continue improvement.
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If you do it right, each flange is tight!

No more start-up losses thanks to FIM

A Turnaround is a busy period with a giant workload for your colleagues. Our professionals will assist whenever needed. Thanks to FIM you eliminate start-up losses caused by leaking flanges. Our motto? “If you do it right each flange is tight!

You want to know more?

We triggered your interest? Contact Walter Mesterom, Commercial Director at PDM via walter.mesterom@pdm-group.com or +31 (0)6 53 47 18 05. Walter will gladly inform you about Flange Integrity Management.

Diederik van Heugten
Plant Manager Melamine, OCI Nitrogen

We have seen that the Excellence Models, Best Practices and strategies PDM brought to the table work in practice and are easily accepted and adopted by all parties involved. The work performed was executed against tight deadlines without any loss of quality. The attention for Flange Integrity Management has paid off in our turnaround as we did not encounter any start-up delays due to work on flanges. This despite a backlog in critical flanges we had to overcome, but will no longer encounter in the next turnaround.