News: First lecture starts on Tuesday 18th 23rd of August 2015 at 2016at 10:15 in VG13, Valgrinda.P13 PTS paviljongen |
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Background
The course belongs to the large envelope of RAMS courses which are thought at the department of Production and Quality Engineering at NTNU. The course is adminstred by the RAMS group at this department. It is expected that the students have taken (or have relevant background corresponding to):
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The course is a continuation of reliability, availability, maintenance, and safety (RAMS) methods with special emphasis methods applicable for assessment of critical systems. Topics to be covered for safety-critical systems are: How to define requirements for safety systems and barriers, and how to assess the reliability of safety instrumented systems within key frameworks like IEC 61508, a standard that is frequently used for safety-critical systems. The course may be regarded as an extension of TPK 4120, but is perhaps more of a mixture of qualitative and quantitative topics.
The course is planned to be organized as follows:
Course material
The course is using the following book: https://www.ntnu.edu/ross/books/sis, with the support of some standards, reports, and articles as appropriate. More information is provided on it's learning. Please note that an extension of the textbook is ongoing, and that each draft of chapters being revised is uploaded on its learning.
Course objective and motivation
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Expected learning outcome
Knowledge: Basic insight into the theoretical foundation and practical applications of RAMS assessment and optimization, applied on critical (usually, Extended knowledge in how reliability requirements impact design and operation of safety-critical ) systemssystems, and also what methods that are used to carry out reliability assessments, including their strenths and weaknesses.
Skills: Recognizing standard situations related to reliability assessment of safety-critical systems, and be able to develop reasoning for more complicated situations. Solve optimization problems in practice. Assess RAMS performance for systems. Be able to use key standards such as IEC 61508 on selected topics in the area of reliability assessments,be able to carry out such assessments and be able to suggest design constraints on the basis of the results. Also be able to present uncertainty associated with the results.
General competence: Understand RAMS as an important cornerstone of industrial and commercial systems and in the public administration.
Other information
There will be mandatory course work, and the exam is written (4 hours, simple calculator).
Industry relevance
Reliability assessments of safety-critical systems are key services provided by many consultancy companies, such as with Safetec, Lloyd's Register Consulting, and DNV-GL (link to the GL-part of the services), and Lilleaker Consulting. Manufacturers like ABB, Siemens, AkerSolutions, FMC, Kongsberg Maritime and many others need to design systems in light of reliability requirements, and also demonstrate (sometimes with assistance of the consultancy companies) that the reliability requirements are met. End users, like railway service providers like Jernbaneverket, oil companies like Statoil, Det Norske, GDF-Suez, Shell and Conoco-Phillips, and Wintershall, and other industries like smelting plants and water power suppliers must be competent to select proper system design, follow up the system performance and select the most suitable maintenance strategies to keep costs and safety within the accepetable limits.