Corporate Guidelines and Specification Services

• Evaluation of Applications
• Materials Evaluation and Testing
• Design Optimization
• Feasibility and Cost Analysis
• Application of Codes and Standards
• Specification of Fabrication Requirements
• Specification of Design Requirements
• Quality Control Programs
• Vendor Qualification

Overview

Over the past decade, many industrial companies have eliminated or greatly reduced their internal capability to manage engineered materials. For specialty materials such as FRP, where vendor capability and economic results can vary significantly, this lack of user knowledge can present particular challenges. To assist companies that use FRP equipment and piping, FSE develops corporate guidelines and specifications to ensure adequate design and fabrication criteria.

Services Provided

Since 1976, FSE has developed design, specifications and inspection services to assist the industrial community in obtaining quality FRP equipment for their plants. Important activities in which FSE has participated recently include the development and implementation of corporate guidelines, specifications and training.

These activities bring to bear FSE's experience as well as its capability to tailor a service to meet the specific needs of a client corporation. Some of the activities included in corporate services are:

• Specification and design guidelines, including establishment of design criteria for specific equipment and piping, development of required design submittal information and calculations, determination of allowable physical property values for appropriate laminate construction as well as determination of appropriate materials for construction and laminate sequences for specific applications.
  
  
• Quality control guidelines include a specific strategy for inspection and testing of in-process and completed FRP equipment and piping to ensure conformance to the user's requirements. The guideline addresses documentation, test variances, inspection and test methods.
  
  
• Preventive maintenance (PM) and Process Safety Management (PSM) guidelines for frequency and scope of initial and on-going inspections, including documentation and reporting requirements to ensure continued safe operation of FRP.
  
  
• Seminars for corporate and plant personnel in engineering issues, procurement practices, basic inspection techniques including non-destructive testing (NDT), preventive maintenance (PM) and process safety management (PSM) programs for FRP equipment, ducting and piping.