Availability, reliability & maintainability studies

RMC provides a wide range of consultancy services for industry. Within the reliability engineering sphere, RMC can provide cost-effective solutions to reliability and availability issues. Our extensive client base is evidence of our capability to tackle problems in many industries.

Availability, reliability and maintainability (ARM) studies can play a role in managing risk, satisfying legislation, maximising plant production and minimising life-cycle costs.

The studies can help to:

• Optimise design to meet ARM targets at least cost;
• Determine the spares holding necessary to meet ARM targets;
• Determine the maintenance manpower resources required to maintain availability.

We have provided services to clients in the oil & gas, nuclear, rail transport and many other industries.

Key services:

• Reliability and availability assessment;
• Failure modes effects and criticality analysis;
• Fault tree analysis and reliability block diagram modelling;
• Deterministic and Monte Carlo analysis;
• Maintenance support optimisation;
• IEC 61508 safety integrity level requirements determination and assessment;
• Reliability centred maintenance;
• Reliability data collection and analysis.

Previous projects have included:

• Availability assessment of a baggage handling system at Heathrow Airport
• Reliability assessment of the Jubilee Line floodgates
• IEC61508 safety integrity level requirements assessment for the fire & gas and emergency shutdown systems for offshore oil & gas platforms
• ARM assessment of a sewage gas power generation plant

We have the software to support a complete range of ARM services.