Corrosion Knowledge Management Versus Corrosion Management:

Corrosion management (CM) is a relatively known terminology to address technicalities involved in prevention and mitigation of corrosion.

However, managing corrosion must be done through  an “organizational culture” within a plant that would support CM activities. This organizational culture – or as we call it, corrosion knowledge management (CKM), mainly relies on managerial techniques  for a better communication between both corrosion engineers and other engineers and corrosion engineers and the managers who may have a little background in corrosion.

This technique first focuses on the available “sources” and then proposes  a feasible way of dealing with corrosion through the available sources by using the following principles:

-Definition of corrosion system (Corrosion in the system or corrosion of the system)

- Use of Information

-Transparency

- Modeling

It is proposed that based on this model for dealing with corrosion, a better understanding of corrosion and its seriousness is created that via a feasible communication system based on CKM principles can help reduce the cost and consequences of both existing and future corrosion problems.