RAMS Group

Welcome to the RAMS group at the Department of Production and Quality Engineering, NTNU.

Visit Address:

• S. P. Andersens veg 5
  NTNU - Valgrinda
  NO 7491 Trondheim (see map - pdf format)

Post Address:

• RAMS Group
  Department of Production and Quality Engineering
  Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  NO 7491 Trondheim, Norway

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Academic Staff

• Marvin Rausand, Professor of Reliability Engineering
• Jørn Vatn, Professor of Reliability and Maintenance Engineering
• Per Schjølberg, Associate Professor of Maintenance Management
• Stein Haugen, Adjunct Professor (20% position) of Risk Analysis
• Leif Tinnes Sunde, Adjunct professor (20% position), Safety and Reliability / Subsea Technology
• Knut Øien, Adjunct professor (20% position) of Risk Analysis
• Trond Østerås, Research Scientist / Program co-ordinator
• D.N.P. Murthy, Professor (20% position) of Reliability Engineering
• Bjørn Egil Asbjørnslett , Postdoc / Research scientist

Guest Researchers

• Chang Kwang Pil, Research Scientist from Hyundai Heavy Industries, South Korea
• Stelian Platon, Guest Researcher from the Romanian Railway Authorities

PhD Candidates

• Kjell Corneliussen, Reliability and Well Integrity Assessment of Oil/Gas Wells
• Mary Ann Lundteigen, Safety Instrumented Systems (Offshore applications)
• Narve Lyngby, Maintenance Optimization (Railway applications)
• Eivind Okstad, Reliability Analysis (Oil well applications)
• Snorre Sklet, Risk Analysis (Offshore applications)
• Ingrid Bouwer Utne, Sustainable Fishing Vessel Technology
• Thomas Welte, Maintenance Optimization (Hydro-power applications)

Research Activities

The research activities of the RAMS group can be classified into the following categories:

• System Reliability Theory
• Reliability assessment of safety barriers and safety instrumented systems
• Reliability assessment of oil/gas well equipment and subsea production systems
• Risk Analysis
• Risk analysis methodology
• Risk influence modeling
• Maintenance
• Maintenance management and effectiveness
• Maintenance optimization

Basic research is mainly carried out as PhD projects (often in cooperation with other research groups at NTNU), while applied research is carried out as industry projects (often in cooperation with SINTEF)

The RAMS Group has been evaluated by the Research Council of Norway

The RAMS Group has recently be evaluated by an international expert group appointed by the Research Council of Norway. The group was given the grade "Excellent" in all categories. You may read the evaluation report (mainly pp.24-25)