Reliability and Maintainability Analysis
Maximising plant availability, performance and condition for minimum maintenance costs, can be achieved through the application of Reliability and Maintainability Analysis (RMA) engineering. These interdependent engineering disciplines are applicable over the entire life cycle of systems/equipment from initial definition and specification through design, development, production and in-service phases of equipment life.
The purpose of RMA engineering is to provide an intentional and optimal balance between in-service availability, performance, safety and durability for a given cost.
Specifically, RMA engineering can achieve the following:
Key Benefits
- Provide a quantitative means of specifying to the designer, manufacturer or supplier - the user requirements for availability (combined effect of reliability and maintainability) and safety.
- During design and development, provide a means of predicting the in-service availability, safety and selected logistical support requirements (e.g. facilities, documentation, test equipment, tools and manpower) of the equipment under specified operating and environmental conditions.
- Produce cost benefit analysis reports, which quantify the life cycle costs associated with equipment proposals.
- During in-service life, provide a means for the analysis of unexpected or unacceptable availabilities and so allow the upgrading of maintenance and operating procedures, and the modification of equipment where necessary.
Capabilities
Our services in the engineering disciplines of reliability and maintainability:
- Specifications and Plans
- Develop reliability, maintainability and safety specifications and plans for the acquisition of new equipment or upgrading of existing equipment.
- Demonstrations and Tests
- Develop reliability, maintainability or safety demonstration programs or tests.
- Processes and Tolerances
- Provide a means of defining the optimum processes and manufacturing tolerances to ensure reliability, maintainability and safety specifications are achieved in-service.
- Maintenance Analysis
- Conduct on-site maintenance analyses to determine sources and causes of unreliability and recommend alternative maintenance schedules and procedures, alternative operating procedures or changes to the operating environment, and equipment design improvements to reduce or eliminate the causes of unscheduled downtime.
- Failure Monitoring
- Specify and install failure-monitoring systems to collect failure data for ongoing analysis and correction programs.
- Logistic Support Plans
- Develop logistic support plans based on design reliability, maintainability and safety analyses and predictions.
- Management Programs
- Develop programs for the ongoing management, analysis and prediction of reliability, maintainability and safety of systems/equipment.
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