RAMS

RCM and Maintenance Management by reliability methods are used through a continuous process to optimise maintenance programs and improve the production availability by means of reducing downtime cost and maintain an acceptable level of safety.

RCM Analysis

RCM analysis is used during the design phase to establish maintenance program and technical/operational procedures. On existing systems RCM is used for optimising programs and procedures. The outcome, for both new and existing systems, is identification of effective maintenance tasks and technical/ operational procedures. If maintenance proves to be ineffective, the need for redesign or modifications is identified. RCM substantiates maintenance assumptions in other analyses, e.g. risk analyses, HAZOPs, etc.

RCM Software

This is a PC-tool for performance of RCM-analyses. RCMTool simplifies the complete RCM-analysis, and contributes to the systematisation and storage of analysed data to support RCM as a method in a continuous improvement process. RCMTool has extended functions for job sorting and grouping. This facilitates the transfer of RCM-results to a maintenance management system.

SARS (Safety Analysis Railway Systems)

SARS is a software supported analysis method. It uses an analytical top-down approach to identify safety functions. Further, the method evaluates the risk reducing measures to be established to manage and control the risk in the operational phase. SARS is also a method for continuous surveillance and change management. Results can be used directly in safety and change management systems as well as for reanalysis of the equipment and installations during the operational phase to maintain or improve the safety level.

SARS has been developed by Scandpower, initially for railway systems, and can easily be adapted to other applications in the transport or other industrial branches.

RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety)

Maintenance Management is a process to continually improve the maintenance and operation by use of performance indicators to measure the performance level and initiate appropriate improvement when specified performance is not met. This model for control and improvement of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety is named the RAMS program. It is a continuos surveillance program, monitoring e.g. safety functions developed with the SARS method and RAM targets.

Improvements are made in areas such as equipment reliability, production availability, and maintainability of the assets, safety of people/environment and cost.