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Reynolds Wrap Up: Highlights from the API Subcommittee on Inspection and Mechanical Integrity (SCIMI) at the Spring 2020 Standards Meeting

By John Reynolds, Principal Consultant at Intertek. This article appears in the May/June 2020 issue of Inspectioneering Journal.
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API Inspection and Mechanical Integrity (IMI) Summit 

Planning continued for the next Inspection and Mechanical Integrity (IMI) Summit. The format will be largely the same as it has been. Some discussions are underway about the length of presentations. In the past, the Summit has varied between 30 and 45 minutes scheduled for each presentation. We are contemplating changing back to 40 minutes with a 5-minute break between sessions. 

The planning committee is also looking to ramp up the “new technology” sessions which allowed companies to talk for 15 minutes about some of the newer IMI technologies that are being developed but are not yet available commercially. Those will again occur over the noon hour break during the Summit.

We are also looking for new blood for the planning committee to help us vet speaker abstracts, slides, and, as always, help to moderate and facilitate the sessions on-site. If you are interested and are able to commit between 50 and 100 hours of volunteer work over the next 12 months, then leave a comment with this article and we will add your name to the list of potential volunteers. The planning committee will be meeting regularly until the next Summit in June 2021.

As a reminder from the last SCIMI highlights from the fall meeting, the big news is that...

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Posted by Manuel Alvarez on July 22, 2020
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