TPK 5165 RAMS Engineering and Management

Objective

The course provides insight on how to incorporate reliability, maintainability, and safety aspects into all phases of the life cycle of a product or a system.

Prerequisites

The course TPK4120 Safety and Reliability Analysis or similar background knowledge.

Course Description

Reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety (RAMS) requirements during the whole life cycle of a product or a system. RAMS management in product development. RAMS requirements and specification. Analytic qualification and acceptance testing. Collection and utilization of experience data. Assessment of production regularity and life cycle cost/profits.

Lectures and Exercises

Lectures, project work and exercises. A mandatory project shall be carried out as group work, and will count 30% in the evaluation. The lectures and exercises are in English when students who do not speak Norwegian take the course.

Per week: 3 hours lecture, 2 hours exercises, 7 hours self study.

Course Material

Special course compendium.

Responsible Professor

Professor Marvin Rausand