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Safety critical valve

Thread starter 12bucklemyshoe
Start date Feb 21, 2013

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Feb 21, 2013

12bucklemyshoe

Chemical

I am trying to start a reliability program for safety critical valve. I know I need to do frequent quialty PMs. Does a valve get to a certain age that even if it passes a pm it should be changed anyway? It seems like critical valves should be on a changeout rotation. Am I correct on this?