Reduce Turnaround Delays with Source Inspection

Have you ever received a piping spool with the wrong flange or an incorrect dimension?

These flanges were cut off spools because they were the wrong pressure rating.

Perhaps the spools were intended to be rated CL300, but the flanges are rated CL150? Unfortunately, it happens. 

Fabrication non-conformances can cause delivery delays and ultimately impact your plant's turnaround schedule, which in turn affects your bottom line.

On a recent project, seven stainless-steel spools were fabricated with CL150 flanges, contrary to the drawings that specified CL300. The piping fabricator had welded on the wrong flanges. 

What started as a single non-conformance fumbled into seven piping spools that had to be redone in the field.

Work on-site briefly came to a halt as pipefitters had to be redirected to another task. New stainless steel flanges had to be ordered and field-welded after the old flanges were cut off. 

While the fabricator carried the cost of these pricey field changes, the owner bore the weight of dissatisfaction from their stakeholders due to the schedule slip and lost revenue.

Turnaround EPC performs source inspection at the piping fabrication shop to prevent this issue from occurring. Try not to view source inspections as an added cost to the project; they usually pay for themselves by reducing unplanned downtime during on-site installation.