Development of a web-based corrosion cost inventory system for Saudi Arabia

The proposed system is designed to be divided into five major sectors viz., utilities, transportation, infrastructure, government, and production and manufacture. Each of these major sectors are further divided into sub-sectors and then blown down to industry and specific identity. The proposed system will enable end users to provide corrosion and cost related data through web-based online system. The input information from end users will be authenticated by a corrosion auditor before finally entering it into the database tables. The system is also capable of generating reports related to corrosion cost, which the nation is paying, with further details of corrosion costs borne by each sector and sub-sector and sub-sectors. These reports will be helpful in making a decision to identify the sector and sub-sectors which are more prone to corrosion and thereby consume more money to combat corrosion. Finally, the sectors and sub-sectors which are identified through the proposed system can be put under thrust research areas to combat corrosion problem and hence reduce the corrosion cost burden in future.