Abstract
The WinCan VX inspection merging tool allows users to combined abandoned inspections from opposite ends of a pipe together into a single inspection. This can be useful for illustrating what the current condition of the pipe is in a user-friendly way, but at the same time may not always create an inspection record that meets the requirements of the currently selected standard.
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The Logic
There is one essential requirement that must be satisfied before inspection merging can take place – there must be at least one abandoned inspection from each end of the pipe in the current project.
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See also that the distance measurement of the abandoned code is less than the total length of the pipe, so we now have more confidence that the inspection really was abandoned before reaching the end of the pipe.
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Abandoned Inspection Scenarios
So, to the basic rules of inspection merging, we must have at least one inspection from each end of the pipe that is abandoned. What might this look like in simple terms?
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1 | Do the inspections qualify for combining? Yes, because there is at least one abandoned inspection from each end. What will be the inspection status of the combined inspection? Complete, because the whole pipe has been inspected. |
2 | Do the inspections qualify for combining? Yes, because there is at least one abandoned inspection from each end. What will be the inspection status of the combined inspection? Abandoned, because the whole pipe has not been inspected. |
3 | Do the inspections qualify for combining? Yes, because there is at least one abandoned inspection from each end. What will be the inspection status of the combined inspection? Complete, because the whole pipe has been inspected. |
4 | Do the inspections qualify for combining? No, because there is only an abandoned inspection from one end. The inspection from the other end is complete. |
5 | Do the inspections qualify for combining? No, because there are no abandoned inspections from one end of the pipe. |
6 | Do the inspections qualify for combining? Yes, because there is at least one abandoned inspection from each end. What will be the inspection status of the combined inspection? Abandoned, because the whole pipe has not been inspected. |
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Special Cases
Consider a little further Scenario 6. When we combine inspections, we combined two inspections into one. We cannot combine three or more inspections because the resultant combined inspection will just be mess of observation codes and will therefore be inappropriately scored.
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As you can see, there are a number of data values at play here that are used to create a sound engineering solution to the inspection merging.
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