Mission
The mission of the RAMS group is to:
- Develop theory, methods and tools that can be used by the industry to improve the RAMS aspects of their activities.
- Educate RAMS Master and PhD candidates with relevant and thorough knowledge and skills, and with high ethical standards
- Contribute to reducing the major accident risk in the society
- Contribute to safe and environmentally friendly industrial production and transport
- Be trustworthy, innovative and useful for the industry and the society
Aim
The overall aim of the RAMS group is:
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- Basic research without external funding
- Basic and applied research mainly based on PhD projects
- Externally funded research projects (e.g., funded by the EU, the Norwegian Research Council, and joint industry projects.)
Strategy
Our strategy to fulfill the aim of the group is to:
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The RAMS group focuses on basic and applied research. Our mission is to support RAMS consulting companies, not to compete with them.
Strategy
The mission of the RAMS group (see above) shall be fulfilled through:
- Recruitment and systematic development of top-qualified employees, PhD students, and Master student
- Continuous focus on quality in all activities
- Dedicated and innovative education
- Close cooperation with advanced and relevant industry in Norway and abroad
- Close cooperation with the best researchers worldwide
- Creation and maintenance of a thorough RAMS knowledge-base
- Openness and active dissemination of RAMS research results and knowledge
- Efficient and involving management of the group
- Search for new PhD and postdoc opportunities, through:
- Active collaboration with SINTEF and other research institutes, to create new research project initiatives that include PhD scholarships.
- Expand our participation in the ROSS Gemini centre (http://www.ntnu.edu/ross)
- Explore opportunities to recruit PhD candidates from industry through the Industrial PhD Scheme (“Nærings-PhD”).
- Strengthen our cooperation with Norwegian and international industry to create new joint research projects and to obtain new positions sponsored by the industry. Today, our main industrial collaborators are: AkerSolutions, DNV GL, ENI, ExproSoft, Stiftelsen GKJ, the Norwegian Railway Administration, Safetec (ABS), Shell and Statoil.
- Extend our cooperation with internationally leading research groups, such as the University of Maryland (USA), the University of Stuttgart (Germany), the Université Technologie de Troyes (France), Ecole des Mines de Nantes and ParisTech (France).
- Develop new collaborations with other scientific disciplines (internally and externally), to pursue research in new areas and for new applications (e.g., related to physical deterioration, computer science and cybernetics).
- Extend our collaboration with other research groups at the department, such as with production systems (especially related to subsea production and processing systems).
2. Ensure high quality of our research:
- Strengthen the requirements for accepting candidates for available PhD positions.
- Improve our search procedures to get better applicants for new PhD scholarships and market the possibility to go from the two-year international master programme in RAMS to a PhD scholarship.
- Extend and improve our use of internal peer review before submission of papers (in relation to the group’s PhD seminars and by having another academic staff member to review the paper).
3. Disseminate knowledge to the industry, the research community and the society:
- Publish research results in internationally recognized journals and at international conferences with peer review.
- Write and contribute to new books/monographs for engineers, for researchers and as course textbooks.
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