Equipment in general. I keep on coming acrossed projects that have equipment manufacturers building "CRAP" that I have to fix and pay for, all to be resolved by the lawyers during or at the close of the books. My last project the equipment manufacturer cut the lifting lug off of the equipment after loading on trucks for shippment. So the equipment arrives and lifting lugs have to be engineered, designed, installed just to remove for the trucks! NO SHIT!
Probably a Buyers' (that'd be you) Specification to cover issues not addressed elsewhere would be very helpful. This assumes you know what is and is not addressed elsewhere.
Regards,
Mike
The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand
I believe that an EPC Contractor should have a typical list of guidelines and standards for the project design, equipment fabrication and inspection, and construction procedures, QA/QC requirements, etc., in the early engineering design stage for the Client approval. Of course, the Client should have its own Engineering team to review and follow up the EPC process through the project.
Normally, you get something with a 1,000 pages of specs to follow on that kind of stuff., in addition to ASME specs, API standards, etc.
FYI, the lifting-lug issue seems like a stupid move, but we've had customers insist that a lifting lug was NOT to remain on the item, too. For the equipment I deal with, it would cost extra to cut a lifting lug off, inspect, grind, re-coat, etc., so that wouldn't ever be done unless the customer or customer specs required it.
Most of the clients I've worked for have their own massive library of specifications which need to be followed for many types of equipment.
Within the oil and gas industry, there is a set of specs titled "Process Industry Practices" that may be helpful if you are in that industry. I've been on several projects which used PIP specs and they are well written.
Dbradley,
If lifting lugs had been engineered, designed, installed as per the approved drawing why would you have to re-engineer and re-design anything ?
If there were no lifting lugs shown on the drawing the contractor may have added them to put on the truck and then removed them as they were not rated to a specific safe working load.
I perform surveillance on many major heavy equipment manufacturers in the SE Asia region and lifting lugs are always a hot topic.
Sub-assemblies have lifting lugs (not shown on drawing) added to enable assembly and these must be removed after assembly so they are not used for lifting the whole unit.
Sometimes we (the client) request they are left on to assist with installation but those for lifting require a specific paint system and S.W.L clearly painted on the lugs.
No rigger in Australia will go near a lifting lug without the S.W.L being clearly shown (and this comes back to what was shown on the approved drawing)
As for "crap" work - the bean counters will always look for the cheapest option so if you do not pay extra for surveillance at the manufacturers you basically get what you paid for.
Regards,
Shane
