RAM - Reliability, Availability, Maintainability analysis and simulation
Introduction to RAM modelling tools and methods
3-day course (with extended practice workshop)
Designed for reliability or maintenance engineers and managers
What you will learn:
- What is system reliability equation
- How to measure reliability
- How to build and use Reliability Block Diagram
- How to build and use Fault Tree
- Principles of redundant systems
- How to do Reliability Allocation analysis
- What is Reliability Importance
- How to run Monte Carlo simulations in RAM model
- How to design maintenance optimization simulations
- How to improve system's reliability, availability, downtime
Training contents
System reliability introduction
What is RAM model?
System reliability analysis history
RAM analysis aplications
Reliability distribution basics
Reliability metrics
RAM models
Reliability Block Diagrams
Fault Tree Analysis
What is a Cut Set?
Series and parallel systems
What is redundancy?
K out of N structures
Reliability importance
Reliability allocation techniques
RAM simulations
Introduction to simulations
Monte Carlo methodology
Maintainability models
RAM simulations
Availability metrics
Maintenance optimization techniques
Spare parts analysis
System improvement strategies
