RAMS data collection under Arctic conditions

• Main Authors: Barabadi, Abbas, Tobias Gudmestad, Ove, Barabady, Javad
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0951832014002804

Reliability, availability, maintainability and supportability analysis is an important step in the design and operation of production processes and technology. Historical data such as time between failures and time to repairs play an important role in such analysis. The data must reflect the conditions that equipment has experienced during its operating time. To have a precise understanding of the conditions experienced, all influence factors on the failure and repair processes of a production facility in Arctic environment need to be identified and collected in the database. However, there is a lack of attention to collect the effect of influence factors in the reliability, availability, maintainability and supportability database. Hence, the aim of this paper is to discuss the challenges of the available methods of data collection and suggest a methodology for data collection considering the effect of environmental conditions. Application of the methodology will make the historical RAMS data of a system more applicable and useful for the design and operation of the system in different types of operational environments. Arctic conditions; Data collection system; Maintainability; Reliability; Availability; Supportability;