Blar i Institutt for maskinteknikk og produksjon på emneord "Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS)"
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A proposal for a RAMS engineering process for blowout preventers
(Master thesis, 2015)A blowout preventer is a safety critical system used during drilling operations. BOP is system of valves to seal, control and monitor oil and gas in a well. The BOP system is of great importance, since it prevents ... -
Activity-based Modelling for Operational Decision-support
(Master thesis, 2015)The recent plunge in oil and gas prices has led to most players in the industry cutting capital investments and squeezing operational costs. In such a business setting, increasing production while improving safety performance ... -
Analytic Assessment of Safety Instrumented Systems Operating in High-Demand Mode
(Master thesis, 2015)The pervasive presence of safety instrumented systems in the process industry indicate the growing need for reliable loss prevention to the minutest degree. The backdrop towards addressing this need is by drawing up a ... -
Application software development for safety instrumented systems - A comparison and evaluation of applied approaches in light of IEC 61511
(Master thesis, 2015)Standards are used widely to provide guidance for the development of safety instrumented system. However, safety systems, implemented in railways, aviation, nuclear, etc., also require the development of a safety case to ... -
Availability Assessment of Electrically-Operated Blowout Preventers
(Master thesis, 2016)Offshore drilling industry is confronted with safety and environmental challenges imposed by the risk of oil and gas blowout accidents. The blowout preventer (BOP) has been an important safety-critical system for preventing ... -
Bayesian Safety Analysis of Railway Systems with Driver Errors
(Master thesis, 2018)The main objective of this thesis is to improve safety in railway systems through studying and understanding the train drivers tasks and their common errors. A literature review is conducted to develop a deep understanding ... -
BBN Model with Quantitative Inputs for Risk Analysis of Uncontrolled Fire in Machinery Space
(Master thesis, 2016)The past decades has witnessed a significant increase in the number and volume of international trade through the sea. Thousands of ships are sailing in the coastal and international waters all over the world. Accident ... -
Bruk av 3D modeller i RAMS styring og analyser for jernbane: Forslag til implementering i pågående jernbaneprosjekter
(Master thesis, 2018)Dette prosjektet har omhandlet bruk av digitale verktøy i RAMS-arbeid. Hensikten med oppgaven har vært å identifisere krav til, samt å utvikle en metode for å implementere RAM- og farelogg i 3D-modell. Det er benyttet et ... -
Common Cause Failure Analysis - Improved Approach for Determining the Beta Value in the PDS Method
(Master thesis, 2017)This master thesis investigates definitions and classifications of the common cause failure from various industries. From the investigation, four core aspects of the definition for the common cause failure are extracted, ... -
Condition based and predictive maintenance for Tapping vehicle used in the Norsk Hydro aluminium plant Sunndalsøra, Norway
(Master thesis, 2018)This thesis consists a theoretical background in general about different types of maintenance, predictive maintenance, approaches from industry 4.0, maintenance excellence, technical conditions and remaining useful lifetime ... -
Condition Monitoring and Prognosis for Subsea Multiphase Pump
(Master thesis, 2015)This thesis presents a case study about the condition monitoring of the twin-screw multiphase pump in the subsea field to demonstrate how condition monitoring techniques can be applied for subsea equipment. Firstly a FMECA ... -
Condition Monitoring for Predictive Maintenance: - A Tool for Systems Prognosis within the Industrial Internet Applications
(Master thesis, 2016)The acceptance of two peer-reviewed papers based on this study for presentation at two international conferences is a proof of the report's originality, solidity and informativity. The derived mathematical model for ... -
Coupling AltaRica models with optimization heuristics for the assessment of maintenance policies
(Master thesis, 2018)The main objective of this thesis is do maintenance optimization for a system using AltaRica simulation tools. Maintenance optimization is based on the assessment of maintenance policy. Stochastic simulation is applied to ... -
Data Analytics for Chemical Process Risk Assessement: a Representative Case Study to Support Safe Handling of Hazardous Substances
(Master thesis, 2018)Potential of data generation has exponentially increased nowadays. Through the World Wide Web, for instance, information of any kind are collected and stored in databases. In the industrial sector, a huge amount of data ... -
Degradation Modelling for Predictive Maintenance - An Application to High Voltage Rotary Machines
(Master thesis, 2017)Large high voltage rotary machines are commonly utilized in gas processing plants for operations such as dewatering and compression. The availability of these machines are very critical as the operation down times are ... -
Design and verification of a SIL-rated shutdown function for a subsea power grid
(Master thesis, 2015)The offshore oil and gas industry is moving towards a direction where more and more process equipment are being placed subsea. Accordingly, various electrical equipment, including pumps, separators, gas compressors, water ... -
Development of a Risk Model for Fish Farming Operations
(Master thesis, 2016)Fish farming has grown to become one of Norway s largest export industries. By 2050, Norway has the potential of producing 50 million tons of fish each year, if challenges related to the production and environment are ... -
Efficient Handling of Empirical Probability Distributions in RAMS Models
(Master thesis, 2017)Performing reliability assessments always relies on utilizing data. Most often, this data is provided in the form of historic failure dates. To understand this data, models are used to derive reliability characteristics ... -
Etablering av retningslinje for kvantifisering av risiko ved gjennomføring av risikovurderinger i jernbanesektor
(Master thesis, 2017)Gjennomføring av risikovurderinger er en viktig del av sikkerhetsstyringen i en virksomhet. Som en del av sikkerhetsstyringen til Bane NOR har de etablert håndbøker for sikkerhet og RAMS som skal etterleves ved utførelse ... -
Fremtidens vedlikeholdsstyring av trommelmotorer ved SalMar AS
(Master thesis, 2017)Norsk oppdrettsnæring har i løpet av de siste tiår vært preget av stor vekst og utgjør p.t. ca. 70 % av Norges sjømateksport. SalMar ASA er i dag verdens tredje største oppdrettsselskap med et volum oppdrettslaks i sjøen, ...