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AiOM, the Asset Integrity and Optimisation Management Platform
AiOM is the indigenously developed digital backbone of TCR Advanced's asset integrity practice. The platform is delivered subscription-led and…
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Asset Integrity and Engineering Consulting
Seventeen service lines sit under this pillar, from AiOM through to contract research and development. Twelve dedicated in-situ replica field teams supply the evidence, and the governing codes run from API 580 through to API 579-1.
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TCR delivers Fitness for Service (API 579-1/ASME FFS-1), Remaining Life Assessment, Risk-Based Inspection, Engineering Critical Assessment (API 1104) and root-cause failure analysis, drawing on a 9,000+ investigation library and a 100,000+ replica database. Governing standards across the pillar include API 580, API RP 584, API RP 571, API 581, API 584, API 579-1.
Overview
| FLAGSHIP CAPABILITY 12 dedicated in-situ metallographic replica field teams run a field-to-lab-to-database workflow against a catalogue of 100,000-plus replicated microstructures. |
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Asset Integrity and Engineering Consulting is where the company stops being a testing laboratory and starts being a strategic partner. The pillar carries the higher-margin engagements at TCR Advanced, supported by the testing arms at TCR Engineering and TCR Arabia.
The reader of this pillar is not a procurement officer running a low-bid line item; the reader is a refining or fertiliser plant manager, a power-plant integrity engineer, a pipeline operator, or an insurance referee, looking for the partner that converts test data into a defensible engineering decision.
TCR's consulting team has deep engineering expertise and has access to an advanced material testing laboratory that enables them to uncover the root cause of failure and recommend the best solution to prevent recurrence. TCR Engineering provides consulting assistance in several areas that include:
- Determining the Right Material for a Product
- Corrosion Engineering, Corrosion Testing and Corrosion Investigations
- Metallurgical Failure Analysis and Welding Evaluations
- Investigate the Effect of Environmental Conditions on a Product or Material
- Manage Quality Control Projects
- Prepare Material and Process Specifications for In-House Quality Control
- Compare Vendor or Competitive Products
- Estimate the Remaining Service Life of a Product or Machine Component
- Develop Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) Plan and TOFD/ Phased Array Procedures
- Identify Equivalents between Indian and Foreign Specifications
- Assist to Solve Product Quality Problems
- Assist in Cost-Benefit Analysis Post Failure Analysis
- Expert Witness and Opinion Assistance in Case of Trade Conflicts, Materials Disputes and Litigation Issues
- Creating a Custom Metallurgical Image Analysis Software
- Ensure Product Compliance with Rohs and WEEE
Capabilities and governing standards
Each linked page carries full method detail, scope and acceptance criteria.
| Service | Governing standards |
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| AiOM, the Asset Integrity and Optimisation Management Platform | API 580, API RP 584, API RP 571, API 581, API 584, API 579-1, ASME FFS-1 |
| Fitness for Service (FFS) | API 579-1, ASME FFS-1, API RP 571, ASME Section VIII, API 579, API 941, API 620 |
| Engineering Critical Analysis (ECA) | API 1104, API 1104-compliant, API 579-1, ASME FFS-1, ASME Section VIII, ISO 15653, ISO 12135 |
| Remaining Life Assessment (RLA) | See service page |
| In-Situ Metallography and Microstructural Replication | ASTM E1351, ASTM E3, ASTM E407, ASTM E112, ASTM E45, ASTM E1245 |
| Knowledge-Based Audit (KBA), TCR's Branded Risk-Based Inspection | API 580, API 581, API 510, API 570, API 653, API RP 584 |
| ARTiS, Automated Reformer Tube Inspection with Built-In FFS | API 530, API 570, API 936, API 579-1, ASME FFS-1 |
| Cathodic Protection, the CP Division | AMPP C, NACE SP0169, NACE SP0102, NACE SP0204, NACE SP0206, ISO 15589, ASTM C876 |
| Root Cause Failure Analysis | API RP 571 |
| Fire Damage Assessment | API 579-1 |
| Boiler Audit | API 579, API 530, API 573, ASTM E139 |
| Plant Life Extension (PLE) | See service page |
| Inspection of Storage Tanks and Audit | API 653-compliant, API 653, API 650 |
| Engineering Design Review | ASME Section VIII, ASME B31.1, ASME B31.3, API 650, API 620 |
| Structural Stability Assessment and Certification | ASME B31.1, ASME B31.3, API 650, API 620 |
| Energy Audit | See service page |
| Contract Research and Development | See service page |
The services of this pillar
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Fitness for Service (FFS)
The FFS practice is delivered against API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 (4th Edition 2021) and BS 7910, with damage-mechanism identification anchored in API RP…
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Engineering Critical Analysis (ECA)
Engineering Critical Analysis (interchangeably Engineering Critical Assessment) is the fracture-mechanics-led subset of…
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Remaining Life Assessment (RLA)
RLA is the established workhorse of the Asset Integrity practice. Group cumulative count: 750+ RLA studies across all asset classes, including 400+…
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In-Situ Metallography and Microstructural Replication
In-situ metallography is the flagship value-add of the group and the technique on which much of the asset-integrity practice rests. It reads the…
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Knowledge-Based Audit (KBA), TCR's Branded Risk-Based Inspection
KBA is the company's branded delivery of Risk-Based Inspection per API 580/581. KBA is not boiler-only. It applies to boilers, heat exchangers,…
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ARTiS, Automated Reformer Tube Inspection with Built-In FFS
ARTiS is…
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Cathodic Protection, the CP Division
The CP Division is led by Chiral Patel as CP Division Lead, with 20+ years of cathodic protection and pipeline integrity experience. The division…
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Root Cause Failure Analysis
The single largest archive in the group: 9,000+ failure investigations. This is the foundation that feeds the KBA practice, the FFS practice, and the…
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Fire Damage Assessment
Per API 579-1 Part 11. Temperature-zone mapping of the damaged plant footprint (Zone I through Zone IV by inferred peak temperature). Deformation…
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Boiler Audit
TCR Engineering offers expert services in Remaining Life Assessment (RLA) and comprehensive condition assessment of boilers, ensuring optimal…
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Plant Life Extension (PLE)
Multi-year engagement model. Upgrades, replacements, inspection-interval reset, IOW redrawing, RBI re-rating, and risk-mitigation…
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Inspection of Storage Tanks and Audit
Robotic…
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Engineering Design Review
ASME Section VIII Div. 1 and Div. 2; ASME B31.1 (power piping); ASME B31.3 (process piping); API 650 (welded tanks for oil storage); API 620…
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Structural Stability Assessment and Certification
Industrial structures, chimneys, stacks, equipment supports, plant buildings. Theodolite-based plumbness and straightness measurement is the May 2026…
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Energy Audit
Electrical systems, thermal processes, HVAC, compressed air. Industrial-buyer surface area in process plants, fertilisers, and…
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Contract Research and Development
Heat-treatment studies, 2D to 3D conversion, FEA, CAE, piping stress analysis. Custom corrosion coupons since 2012. MiC image analysis software since…
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The Pipeline That Lost 40% Capacity (And Nobody Knew Until C-Value Analysis Revealed the Truth)
C-Value analysis reveals true hydraulic condition of ageing pipelines. TCR Advanced Engineering's expertise prevents costly capacity losses.
Boiler Tube Failure Analysis: A Complete Investigation Guide for Power Plants
Boiler tube failure analysis reveals the metallurgical evidence behind costly power plant outages and provides proven solutions to prevent recurrence.
Frequently asked questions
Does TCR provide Fitness for Service assessment?
Yes. TCR delivers Fitness for Service per API 579-1/ASME FFS-1 and BS 7910, with 350+ FFS engagements completed. The HMEL Bathinda isomerization reactor is a reference case: after a March 2012 temperature excursion peaking at 710 °C, the full damage-mechanism workup certified it fit for service, monitored to 2019 with no shutdown.
How many failure investigations has TCR completed?
The group's root cause failure analysis archive holds 9,000+ documented failure investigations, the single largest archive in the group, including 1,500+ boiler tube failures. This library feeds the Knowledge-Based Audit and Fitness for Service practices and anchors TCR's asset integrity work from India and Saudi Arabia.
Does TCR carry out Remaining Life Assessment (RLA)?
Yes. The group has completed 750+ RLA studies across all asset classes, including 400+ boiler remaining life assessments. TCR has been an IBR Well-Known Material Testing Laboratory since 2014, is a Central Boiler Board Well-Known RLA Organisation, and executed the Adani Power Mundra 4,620 MW fleet RLA at 20 days per unit.
What is in-situ metallography and what is TCR's experience?
In-situ metallography reads microstructure on operating plant without cutting samples. Twelve dedicated group-wide field teams run a field-to-lab-to-database workflow against a reference base of 100,000+ replicated microstructures. At Reliance Industries Jamnagar, TCR took 1,200 in-situ replicas in 15 days during a single turnaround window.
What is TCR's Knowledge-Based Audit (KBA)?
KBA is TCR's branded delivery of Risk-Based Inspection per API 580/581. It is not boiler-only: it applies to boilers, heat exchangers and other pressure equipment, and consolidates the record of 1,500+ boiler tube failure investigations into an audit methodology delivered across India and the GCC.
How fast can TCR's consulting team reach a failure site?
When provided with a detailed history of the problem, TCR's engineering consulting team can reach a client site within 24 hours and start generating data and the way forward for the components to be repaired. The bench draws on the group's failure investigation library and the Navi Mumbai and Vadodara laboratories.