VCE Practices

Optimize Your Equipment Life-Cycle Management Costs

Designed to satisfy industry directives, and focused on sharing industry Best Practices, the VCEPractices (VCEPs) have been used on numerous capital projects and for day-to-day plant equipment needs.

The Equity engineers who wrote and maintain the VCEPs have all worked for major refiners and chemical companies, both in plants and central engineering groups. Today, they serve on the committees setting industry standards, and are leaders in research on new procedures to design and evaluate equipment. Thus, the VCEPs are not static; they're updated based on industry-wide practical experience.

The VCEPractices are a management system consistent with PSM requirements, not just a collection of individual practices. The system details how to design, build, buy, commission, maintain, monitor, test, inspect, repair, and modify refinery equipment.

• Prescriptive yet flexible - empowers engineers to make decisions on preferences
• Complies with MOC procedures - requires documentation of deviation from requirements
• Assures standardization - ballot procedure assures uniformity throughout the company, and allows site specific preferences
• Internet access - provides network for technical committees, on-line balloting, and access by the vendors and contractors
• Controlled distribution - delivered electronically

Once they use them, project engineers are the biggest supporters of the VCEP's. Here's what they say about our product:

• Saves significant time over the long-term
• Focuses on important issues - not over-engineered
• Provides confidence in safety and reliability
• Frees up time to spend on other job priorities
• Gives access to experts who authored the Practices
• Consistent with “Big Oil” refining specifications