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RAMS is an acronym for Reliability, Availability, Maintenance, and Safety. The RAMS group develops new knowledge to help society and companies avoid accidents and failures, reduce losses and optimize production.
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The RAMS group focuses on three areas:
- Reliability assessment of safety barrier systems - especially safety-instrumented systems such as emergency shutdown systems, fire and gas systems, and automatic train control.
- New methods for risk analysis - with emphasis on modeling socio-technical systems in risk analyses in the operational phase, where results are used in operational decision-making.
- Risk-based maintenance planning - developing methods and plans to prevent accidents caused by lack of, or erroneously performed maintenance.
Research challenges
Examples of research challenges being addressed by the RAMS group are:
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We have an international network and cooperate with universities in different parts of the world. Textbooks prepared by RAMS group staff are being used in many universities. The group cooperates with SINTEF and with industry on projects funded by the EU or NRCthe Norwegian Research Council, and also through, e.g., the IO Centre.