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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.

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