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ASSET INTEGRITY
From oil and gas to wastewater, we build and support the best asset integrity programs in the world to prevent loss of containment. Learn more » |
TECHNOLOGY
We can help you implement a variety of software programs, including IDMS, RBI, CMMS, EAM and vessel analysis. Learn more » |
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ASSET RELIABILITY MANAGEMENT
Our customized reliability programs help you maintain optimal uptime of your facility and reduce unexpected asset failure. Learn more » |
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE FOR WATER
Whatever the size or need of your facility, we have engineers, certified operators and expert maintenance staff who can cost-effectively help you meet your location’s goals. Learn more » |
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INSPECTION
Our highly trained team of inspectors can diagnose areas of weakness before they hinder your operations. Learn more » |
WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES
We continuously publish white papers, case studies, webinars and more throughout the year to educate our audience on industry best practices, recognized standards and recommendations to take back to their facility. Learn more » |
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CAREERS
PinnacleART is always on the lookout for experienced engineers and inspectors to join our growing team. Click the link to view our full list of career opportunities. Learn more » |
CONTACT US
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PinnacleART's Inspectioneering Content
 | May/June 2019 Inspectioneering Journal By Kate Williamson, Lead Engineer at PinnacleART, and Jarrod White, Corrosion Specialist at PinnacleART CCDs are critical components of a well-maintained MI program and encompass all necessary and relevant MI information for a given process unit. This article defines the value of having CCDs and addresses how to effectively develop and implement them. |
 | May/June 2019 Inspectioneering Journal By Nick Schmoyer, VP and Technical Director at Inspectioneering Inspectioneering and PinnacleART recently hosted a roundtable discussion for a select group of mechanical integrity experts to discuss strategies for managing corrosion under insulation and corrosion under pipe supports, a.k.a. touch point corrosion. |
 | November/December 2018 Inspectioneering Journal By Nick Schmoyer, VP and Technical Director at Inspectioneering Inspectioneering and PinnacleART hosted a roundtable discussion for a select group of mechanical integrity and reliability experts to explore whether or not operators are realizing actual benefits from implementing RBI at their facilities. |
 | November/December 2018 Inspectioneering Journal By John Campo, Principal Engineer at PinnacleART This article walks you through a three-step approach, while providing different scenarios, for identifying and proving the value of reliability improvement initiatives. |
 | July/August 2018 Inspectioneering Journal By Brian Maslar, Technical Director at Amplify Technology Solutions, Pete Ankner, Managing Director at Amplify Technology Solutions, and Stephen Flory, Senior Systems Specialist at PinnacleART This article discusses Asset Performance Management (APM) software implementation strategies and the challenges owners face when upgrading their software to the newest version. |
 | March/April 2018 Inspectioneering Journal By Cesar Espinoza, Engineering Specialist Lead at PinnacleART, and Sudhakar Mahajanam, Senior Engineering Specialist at PinnacleART As RBI continues to proliferate across industry, there are still those that are reluctant to transition from a time-based to risk-based inspection approach - especially in the upstream oil & gas business. These 4 benefits might help to lessen the resistance to RBI. |
| March/April 2018 Inspectioneering Journal By Tyler Alvarado, President at Inspectioneering Last November, Inspectioneering and PinnacleART hosted a roundtable discussion for a select group of leading mechanical integrity experts. This forum explored how the MI field will have to prepare for the impending loss of knowledge resulting from the “Great Crew Change.” |
 | November/December 2017 Inspectioneering Journal By Stephen Flory, Senior Systems Specialist at PinnacleART APM implementation is anything but a pain-free process. Blame tends to fall on vendors, but there are oftentimes activities that do not get completed that tend to have a larger effect on the success of implementation. This article addresses some of those activities. |
 | May/June 2017 Inspectioneering Journal By Ryan Myers, Operational Excellence Manager at PinnacleART, and Brian Marino, Engineering Specialist at PinnacleART Effective condition monitoring location selection is a key component of a best-in-class mechanical integrity program. Learn how moving beyond traditional qualitative approaches to optimized CML selection can reduce risk and maximize the value of each inspection. |
 | November/December 2016 Inspectioneering Journal By Adam Gardner, NDE Specialist at PinnacleART Beyond the financial hits, undetected degradation from corrosion can also lead to critical safety risks. To effectively manage mechanical integrity, organizations need reliable methods of identifying the current states of corrosion occurring within their assets. |
 | September/October 2016 Inspectioneering Journal By Kevin Birkby, Client Solutions Engineer at PinnacleART Integrity and reliability personnel at processing facilities are no strangers to initiatives to improve processes in the pursuit of establishing best-in-class reliability programs. It is common practice for operators to enlist help from third parties that specialize in implementation of programs like Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) and Asset Management. |
 | May/June 2016 Inspectioneering Journal By Jeffrey Foushee, Client Solutions Specialist at Pinnacle Advanced Reliability Technologies, and Ryan Myers, Operational Excellence Manager at PinnacleART Data, in pure form, consists of raw, unorganized facts that need to be processed. Data can be found in databases, documents, drawings, reports, spreadsheets, and numerous other sources. Having data on hand is useful, however, it’s often inefficient and counterproductive to make decisions based on data in its raw form. |
 | March/April 2016 Inspectioneering Journal By Jeremiah Wooten, VP and General Counsel at Inspectioneering, LLC. Inspectioneering recently had an opportunity to sit down with Walt Sanford, President and COO of Pinnacle Advanced Reliability Technologies, and discuss what Reliability means to his clients and others in our industry. We hope you find the exchange interesting and informative. |
 | January/February 2016 Inspectioneering Journal By Walt Sanford, President at PinnacleART, and Mauricio Olivares, Client Solutions Engineer at Pinnacle ART Equipment integrity and reliability programs are essential for refinery and chemical facility operators. The processes of the programs are developed to ensure safety, optimize component life cycles, and promote smooth and economical operations. |
 | November/December 2015 Inspectioneering Journal By Walt Sanford, President at PinnacleART Maximizing return on investment of physical assets, while at the same time operating safely and in an environmentally responsible manner is now more critical than ever for organizations within the heavy process industries. |
 | September/October 2015 Inspectioneering Journal By Jeremiah Wooten, VP and General Counsel at Inspectioneering, LLC. Inspectioneering recently had the opportunity to sit down with Texas Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton and discuss the evolution of reliability in the oil and gas industry. |
 | September/October 2015 Inspectioneering Journal By Brad Moore, Senior Project Manager at PinnacleART Operators in all industries are trying to increase equipment availability, yet oftentimes critical process equipment is not available due to planned or unplanned maintenance. To increase equipment availability, steps must be taken to reduce downtime. One way to achieve this is to ensure that spare parts are organized and available in the event repairs are needed. |
 | May/June 2015 Inspectioneering Journal By Dylan Schrader, Solutions Engineer at PinnacleART, Tom Pickthall at EnhanceCo Inc., and Carlos A. Palacios at CiMA-TQ Pipeline integrity is critical to ensure maintenance and operational efficiency; however it is becoming an increasingly challenging task for the energy industry. Maintenance managers and inspectors must make sure their pipeline(s) and its associated equipment meet strict integrity requirements and comply with regulations in order to avoid unnecessary downtime and mitigate safety and environmental risks. |
 | March/April 2015 Inspectioneering Journal By Walt Sanford, President at PinnacleART Today, many managers are finding that they can address the reliability of all types of assets by combining RBI and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) processes together into one comprehensive reliability management process. |
 | November/December 2014 Inspectioneering Journal By Marc McConnell, P.E., Metallurgy and Fixed Equipment Engineering Coordinator at Pro-Surve Technical Services, Jeannie Beth Richey, PSM Specialist at Sasol North America, Inc., and Josh Yoakam, Integrity Engineer at Holly Refining and Marketing - Tulsa, LLC The role of an API inspector is rapidly changing. Necessary skills for success have transformed as technology, standardization, and regulations have become part of the way of life. |
 | March/April 2014 Inspectioneering Journal By Marc McConnell, P.E., Metallurgy and Fixed Equipment Engineering Coordinator at Pro-Surve Technical Services, Gerrit M. Buchheim, P.E., Refining Metallurgical and Corrosion Expert at Becht Engineering Co., Inc., and Josh Yoakam, Integrity Engineer at Holly Refining and Marketing - Tulsa, LLC High temperature sulfidation is probably the most well- known corrosion mechanism in the oil refining industry because it occurs in large sections of the refinery. |
 | January/February 2014 Inspectioneering Journal By Marc McConnell, P.E., Metallurgy and Fixed Equipment Engineering Coordinator at Pro-Surve Technical Services, Josh Yoakam, Integrity Engineer at Holly Refining and Marketing - Tulsa, LLC, and Frank Dean at Ion Science, Ltd. This is the second of two articles published in Inspectioneering Journal discussing the value of hydrogen bake-outs. Our first article was published in the May/June 2013 issue and received a great response from the Inspectioneering community. In this piece, we will continue the discussion and touch on some new technologies used to enhance the bake-out process. |
 | September/October 2013 Inspectioneering Journal By Jeremiah Wooten, VP and General Counsel at Inspectioneering, LLC. Earlier this year, our friends at Pinnacle Asset Integrity Services hosted a webinar entitled Mechanical Integrity Assessment: Why Bother? The broadcast included discussions on the history and value of asset integrity programs, as well as the evolution of the processes and methods necessary to ensure these programs achieve the objective of decreasing risk to improve safety. We have selected a small sample of these exchanges to present to you because we feel they provide important information regarding the need for mechanical integrity assessments in our industry. |
 | July/August 2013 Inspectioneering Journal By Marc McConnell, P.E., Metallurgy and Fixed Equipment Engineering Coordinator at Pro-Surve Technical Services Who at your facility “owns” injection point hardware? Typically, injection point hardware falls into the “Gray Zone”. |
 | May/June 2013 Inspectioneering Journal By Marc McConnell, P.E., Metallurgy and Fixed Equipment Engineering Coordinator at Pro-Surve Technical Services With 30 years of refinery experience, I have been through many turnarounds and been involved with a lot of repairs. When I started in the business, we would have inspectors that “owned” their specific pieces of equipment. |
 | Event April 5, 2019, This webinar discusses five steps to achieve cost-justification of initiatives to help you evaluate your site practices & performance to achieve results that will highlight the most valuable improvement opportunities across functions and departments. |
 | Event March 12, 2019, This webinar will explore incorporating this approach into an important initiative that many APM software users are currently evaluating: upgrading their software to the newest version. |
 | Press Release PinnacleART, April 9, 2019 As CFO, Andrew Susman will serve as the financial leader responsible for planning and executing financial strategies to support the rapid growth of the company. |
 | Press Release PinnacleART, March 19, 2019 PinnacleART and Metegrity, Inc. have formed a strategic partnership to improve the mechanical integrity program of a natural gas service provider’s operations in the southwest region of the United States. |
 | Press Release PinnacleART, February 19, 2019 PinnacleART has strategically partnered with Solomon Associates to build comprehensive asset assessments for facilities in the energy and chemical industries. |
| Press Release PinnacleART, October 16, 2018 PinnacleART, a global leader in designing, implementing, and maintaining asset reliability and integrity programs, has added rope access services to its repertoire of inspection services. |
| News Inspectioneering Staff, January 11, 2018 Last November in Dallas, TX, Inspectioneering and PinnacleART hosted a select group of leading industry experts in mechanical integrity for an informal discussion of some of the key challenges facing the industry today. The main theme for this inaugural forum, which we’ve dubbed the “Meeting of the Minds,” was to discuss how companies are and should be preparing for the eventual retirement of their older workforce; a serious issue now facing many industries and commonly referred to as the “Great Crew Change.” |
 | Press Release PinnacleART, December 7, 2017 PinnacleART is now an official Implementation Service Provider (ISP) for the aspenONE® Asset Performance Management (APM) software suite from Aspen Technology, Inc. PinnacleART will utilize aspenONE APM solutions to measure, optimize and maximize asset uptime for its oil and gas, specialty chemical, and wastewater customers. |
 | News Inspectioneering Staff, August 18, 2016 Pinnacle Advanced Reliability Technologies (PinnacleART) has been recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States. This list represents 5000 of the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. |
 | News Pinnacle Advanced Reliability Technologies, July 19, 2016 Pinnacle Advanced Reliability Technologies (PinnacleART) has announced the expansion of its advanced nondestructive testing (NDT) inspection team, which now employs two of only 41 American Petroleum Institute (API) Qualification of Ultrasonic Sizing Examiners (QUSE) certification recipients in the world. |
 | Blog May 14, 2019 By PinnacleART This blog will walk through practical steps for managing IOWS and will demonstrate what successful IOW management can look like. |
 | Video In this webinar, the presenters walk through a four step process to develop effective and efficient asset strategies for piping to optimize cost, refocus resources and reduce risk. |
 | Video Although CUI is widely recognized as a primary driver for damage in the petrochemical industry, the solutions often lack the sophistication devoted to other damage mechanisms. |
 | Video Many refining, gas processing, and petrochemical plants have already identified the need to define Integrity Operating Windows, but most are still unsure how to extract the most value from them. |
 | Video 60-minute webinar presented by PinnacleART on the evolution of inspection and mechanical integrity programs in the refining and process industries. |
 | Video Pinnacle Webinar - Mechanical Integrity Assessment: Why Bother? from PinnacleAIS Government regulations require facilities to have a documented safety program in place, yet there are still many plants without any type of mechanical integrity program. Even if your location has a program that meets regulation standards,... |
