A major client in the petrochemical processing industry was experiencing substantial health and safety and lifetime issues around a boiler drum that did not appear to be reaching its planned lifetime in use. As a result the client faced substantial repair costs and process downtime....

Axiom was asked to investigate a tube failure in an industrial boiler system that could have cost a client up to £70,000 per day in lost production, time and revenues.  Over a period of 18 days and a cost of £6,500, the cause of the failure was identified as.......

Axiom was called in to investigate failures of cage slips within the oil industry, a situation that had happened on several occasions and was clearly of great concern....

Axiom was invited to investigate the condition of 4 heat exchanges that were recognised to be operating beyond the original design life set by code. The immediate capital impact of the replacement of the units was in excess of £100,000 and the client was keen to establish....

Axiom was requested to assess the regular failure of a pump shaft on acid duty cycling that was being replaced every 3 months at a cost of around £2,000 plus downtime for each replacement. Material investigation of the shaft showed that the original specification had been for Hastelloy C276 which was clearly not delivering the expected performance and lifetime.....

Axiom was asked to look at a storage tank facility that was originally designed to code for storing oil-based products but was now holding hazardous chemical materials. The Health and Safety Executive had raised a concern about suitability for purpose of the tanks as a result of the significant product change.....

A client with a licensed process manufacturing subdivision uses substantial quantities of sub-components manufactured by 3rd party suppliers. Quality had become an issue resulting in embarrassing defects in final product and substantial costs to the manufacturer and relationship risks to all parties....