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Setting up Inspection Effectiveness Tracking

The inspection effectiveness of a site’s indicators provides a measurement of the thoroughness, sensitivity, and efficiency of the inspection strategy, which can then inform your assessments of confidence and probability of failure when performing risk analysis.
The Evaluate Inspection Effectiveness scheduled action evaluates processed indicator readings that identify an inspection effectiveness value and that were recorded within a specified time period. Using the rules set up for the site, the process calculates the inspection effectiveness value for each indicator.
Tip: You can also update indicators’ effectiveness values manually. In the Site window, click the Tools menu, Inspection Management, and then Evaluate Inspection Effectiveness. Depending on the number of indicators evaluated, this process can take a number of minutes to complete.
Inspection effectiveness values are displayed on sites, indicators, templates, and readings. For example:
They are also shown on maintenance action plans with degradation rates that reference the indicators. Look for these values in the Degradation Rates, Confidence, and Implementation views. For example:
Number of inspections is calculated when the Evaluate Inspection Effectiveness function is run (manually or by the scheduled action). It records the number of readings that reference the inspection effectiveness value for the indicator.
Data loaders for indicators, indicator readings, and failure modes include inspection effectiveness values.
Note: Inspection effectiveness is not supported on measurement point readings or on readings collected using APM Remote or APM Mobile Inspections.
This topic explains how to set up inspection effectiveness for indicators. For related information, see Tracking the Inspection Effectiveness of Indicators. Also, see Adding Degradation Rates to RBI Failure Modes.
Setting up APM to evaluate inspection effectiveness involves the following tasks:
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Define inspection effectiveness values, for example, High, Medium High, Medium, Medium Low, and Low
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Define rules for calculating an indicator’s inspection effectiveness based on the effectiveness of its readings. On rules, you can enter the time period for readings and the default effectiveness value. Rule details allow you to control things like identifying that two B inspections are equivalent to one A inspection or that three C efficiency inspections are equal to one B inspection
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Set the starting date for the next evaluation of inspection effectiveness for the site. Only readings processed on this date and after will be included
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Update indicator types to support inspection effectiveness and specify the rule to use. See **Setting up Indicator Types
Tip: You can use Mass Update to copy an indicator type’s inspection effectiveness value to existing indicators of that type. However, you cannot update existing indicator readings. See Applying Mass Updates.
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Set up the Evaluate Inspection Effectiveness scheduled action to run at regular intervals. See Scheduling Actions
This topic explains how:
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To Define Inspection Effectiveness Values
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To Define Effectiveness Rules
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To Set the Start Date

To Define Inspection Effectiveness Values

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From the Site window, select the Inspection Management view, the Settings tab, and then the Indicators tab. Select the Indicator Settings node in the tree.
Tip: You can also click the Administration menu, Inspection Management Settings, and then Indicator Management. The Indicator Settings window appears.
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Select the Inspection Effectiveness tab. For example:
Tip: You can mark a value as inactive to prevent it from being used. Select it in the table and click Mark as Inactive. When you wish to make the status available, select it in the table and click Mark as Active.
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Click New to open the Inspection Effectiveness Properties dialog:
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Provide a name to identify the value.
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Adjust the sequence number, as required.
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Provide an abbreviation to display in some locations.
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To change the graphic that represents the value, click Change Icon, select another image, and click OK.
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Select the Description tab to provide more information about the effectiveness value.
The Status tab displays the history of the value’s active status. The History tab shows information about the object’s creation and last update.
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Click OK. The value is saved and the dialog closes. The new value is listed in the Inspection Effectiveness tab.

To Define Effectiveness Rules

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In the Site window, Inspection Management view, Settings tab, Inspection Effectiveness tab, select the Effectiveness Rules tab. For example:
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Click New to open the Inspection Effectiveness Rule dialog:
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Adjust the sequence number, as required.
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Provide a descriptive name to identify the rule.
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Provide an abbreviation to display in some locations.
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To change the graphic that represents the rule, click Change Icon, select another image, and click OK.
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Select the default inspection effectiveness to use.
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Select the readings period. This duration defines the period that is used when analyzing an indicator’s readings.
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Select the Details tab and click New. The Inspection Effectiveness Rule Detail Properties dialog appears:
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Select the sequence number of the rule detail.
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Provide an explanation for the rule detail.
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In the Inspections performed area, you can select the number of readings of a specific effectiveness value, for example, 2 of “Fairly effective”.
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In the Equivalent to area, select the number and effectiveness. For example, 1 of “Highly effective”.
In this example, two readings with “Fairly effective” will result in the calculated value of “Highly effective”:
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Click OK. The detail is added to the Details tab.
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Create any additional rule details required.
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Select the Description tab to provide more information about the effectiveness rule.
The Status tab displays the history of the rule’s active status. The History tab shows information about the object’s creation and last update.
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Click OK. The rule is saved and the dialog closes. The new rule is listed in the Effectiveness Rules tab.

To Set the Start Date

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In the Site window, Inspection Management view, Settings tab, Inspection Effectiveness tab, select the Options tab. For example:
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Click Reset. The Reset Inspection Effectiveness Last Evaluated On dialog appears. For example:
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Select the date to be used as the starting date when the evaluation next executes.
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Click OK.