# Asset integrity management

> Asset integrity management (AIM) is the systematic combination of design, inspection, testing, monitoring, maintenance and assessment activities that keeps an asset able to perform its function safely and reliably throughout its life.

- Source: https://amps.global/glossary/asset-integrity-management/
- Type: Glossary
- Published: 2026-09-05
- Tags: asset integrity

## Key facts

- Core elements: asset register and hierarchy, damage mechanism review, RBI, inspection execution (NDT), fitness-for-service (API 579-1/ASME FFS-1), repairs and records
- Owned by the asset owner; delivered largely by inspection contractors
- Enterprise AIM platforms (for example MISTRAS PCMS, Cenosco IMS) are asset-owner systems, distinct from contractor job management software
- Its currency is inspection records tied to assets over decades

Also known as: AIM, integrity management, mechanical integrity.

## Where AMPS sits

AMPS is the contractor and QA-department side: running the jobs, the technicians, the equipment and the reports, and keeping each asset's job history with a QR code on the equipment. The asset management case study describes AMPS functioning as a QA department system in large plants alongside existing internal systems.

## Working with owner systems

Report data can be shared to the owner's document system from your own OneDrive, SharePoint or Google Drive, and all AMPS data is available to Power BI for analysis.

## Related pages

- [Risk-based inspection (RBI)](https://amps.global/glossary/risk-based-inspection/)
- [Asset register](https://amps.global/glossary/asset-register/)
- [Asset owners in heavy industry](https://amps.global/industries/asset-owners-heavy-industry/)
- [Asset management in heavy industries](https://amps.global/case-studies/02-asset-management/)

## Sources

- [API - American Petroleum Institute standards](https://www.api.org/products-and-services/standards)