EQUITY ENGINEERING PRACTICES
Where are the Corporate Standards?
Corporate standards are essential for sharing knowledge across your company and ensuring your plant and equipment are operating safely and reliably in development for more than 20 years. The Equity Engineering Practices® (EEPs) embody Equity’s key pillars of knowledge, excellence, and technology to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive and commercially available engineering standards.
The EEPs give your employees and contractors access to current, searchable, and customizable corporate standards for cradle-to-grave asset management. The EEPs allow you to integrate legacy documents and SME knowledge into your standards to enhance mechanical integrity programs, improve equipment availability, and reduce inspection and maintenance costs.
Learn More About The Equity Engineering Practices (EEPs)
Equity Engineering Practices® (EEPs): Industry’s Most Comprehensive Best Practices
The EEPs are a collection of detailed and customizable best practices to satisfy process safety management (PSM) requirements, accessible via a cloud-native platform.
- Access the ready-to-use and easily searchable Best Practices from the cloud-native platform
- Capture, integrate, and transfer employee knowledge across the organization
- Harmonize document knowledge and lessons learned in one central location
- Integrate the customizable piping classes database with your preferred CAD system
- Apply uniform standards from initial equipment design through to decommissioning
- Provide unlimited employee access and project-specific access to contractors
The EEPs are used across the energy, petrochemical, chemical, fertilizer, and other industrial processing industries.
Benefits of a Well-Managed Standards Program
Corporate standards are essential for sharing knowledge throughout your company. Having up-to-date and easily accessible standards ensures your facilities and equipment are operating both safely and reliably.
Knowledge Management
Capturing lessons learned and SME knowledge in a customizable and easily searchable corporate standards platform will increase safety and reliability today and into the future.
Effective Life-Cycle Management
Incorporating corporate knowledge into your standards can enhance mechanical integrity programs, improve equipment availability, and reduce inspection and maintenance costs.
Compliance with Regulations
Reducing fines and costs related to incidents and audit findings.
Reduced HSE Concerns
Tailoring corporate standards by site or process will map out future failures or damage and reduce costly downtime.
Culture of Clarity
Giving all employees access to your corporate standards opens communication channels, increases compliance, saves time, improves reliability, and minimizes confusion.
Vendor Communication
Promoting full-organizational engagement and compliance will lower third-party contractor costs and will safeguard construction guidelines.
The Following Topics are Covered by EEPs
With 21 sections and the piping classes database, the EEPs provide engineering guidance, integrate subject matter expertise (SME), and conform to your corporate needs. The EEPs align with the latest industry Codes and Standards, satisfy process safety management (PSM) requirements, and incorporate recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices (RAGAGEP).
- Index & Use
- Documentation Requirements
- Safety & Loss Prevention +
- Civil & Structural Engineering
- Piping *+
- Structures & Foundations *+
- Rotating Equipment *+
- Pressure Vessels *+
- Heat Transfer Equipment *+
- Storage Tanks *+
- Materials
- Refactory, Insulation, & Fireproofing +
- Instrumentation & Controls *+
- Electrical Engineering *+
- Packaged Equipment *+
- Inspection +
- Marine Facilities *+
- Solids Handling
- Mechanical Integrity
- Special Emphasis Mechanical Integrity (SEMI) Programs
- Pipeline Design +
- Pipeline Operation & Maintenance +
* Covered by Re-Use Practices (RUPs)
+ Covered by Logistics Engineering Practices (LEPs)
New Collections
Re-Use Practices (RUPs)
This collection supports owner-users evaluating how to repurpose or reuse equipment for new conditions, renewable fuels, and biodiesel.
Logistics Engineering Practices (LEPs)
This collection, designed specifically for the midstream industry, is aligned with ASME B31.3, B31.4, and B31.8 and other industry standards to deliver a tailored solution that maximizes efficiency.
International Engineering Practices
Within this collection, we are continually adding international engineering practices that cover in-service piping, vessels, and tanks.
Piping Specifications
This collection is a compilation of standard piping specifications and is accessible to all users through a searchable database.
Subscription Tiers
We offer three flexible subscription options to support your operational excellence – choose the tier that best suits the needs of your plant or organization.
Inform
The Inform tier provides limited access to download and print Equity-branded EEPs and the piping classes. Subscribing to this tier will give you access to modern and updated standards to improve the overall safety and equipment reliability at your plant.
Integrate
The Integrate tier provides limited access to company-branded EEPs and the piping classes, the ability to freeze project content, and the ability to search legacy documents on the EEP platform. Choosing the Integrate tier will help you supplement an existing standards collection that can be shared across the organization to improve overall compliance.
Customize
The Customize tier is the most complete package available. Subscribers can fully customize the EEPs and piping classes, upload legacy documents, and have unlimited access to Equity SMEs. Selecting the Customize tier will provide your entire organization with fully managed and customized corporate standards that meet procurement and operational needs.
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Re-Use Practices (RUPs)
The Equity Engineering Practices (EEPs) Re-Use collection supports owner-users evaluating how to repurpose or reuse equipment for new conditions, renewable fuels, and biodiesel. The RUPs incorporate the requirements for the evaluation of equipment (fixed and rotating), piping, storage tanks, instrumentation and controls, and structures in new services. The RUPs also include materials review, operations review, inspection and maintenance history reviews, and financial evaluation of replacement versus modification.
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EEPs Expertise
The depth and knowledge of Equity’s consulting team are behind the EEPs. Our SMEs use their knowledge and experience to continually expand the EEPs.
Our SMEs:
- Have 1,300+ years of combined experience with an average of 18.6 years in the industry
- Maintain expertise in: mechanical & structural engineering, materials & corrosion, risk-based inspection, process technologies, mechanical integrity, instrumentation, rotating equipment, and vibration
- Pioneered development of fitness-for-service (FFS) and risk-based inspection (RBI)
- Are the primary authors on WRC 528 and WRC 562
- Serve as lead investigators on API 579, API 571, and API 581
