Certificate Course in Railway RAMS Concepts & Applications
This course explains the concepts of RAM & Safety in detail and also enables the participants to learn and apply the various methods and tools for determining the RAM and Safety targets, and their demonstration.
Duration of this course is 41 hours. This course covers the principles and theory of RAM, Safety, System Engineering and System Assurance.
Course is pre-recorded.Learn at your own schedule within 6 months of activation
It is essential that a discipline engineer in design, testing, operations, maintenance has a good understanding of RAMS concepts. During design development early identification of RAMS risks in the project life cycle enables easier mitigations at reduced costs. Early identification of risks is made possible by the application of RAMS techniques at the required rigor to the developing design at various stages of the project life cycle.
Engineering professionals who are directly involved in the activities responsible for design, construction, operation, maintenance and RAMS assurance, where there is a requirement to achieve a robust railway system at an optimum cost.
- On successful completion of Module A and Module D of RAMS certification course, the participants will have a good understanding of system engineering principles with good understanding of establishing appropriates system assurance framework.
- On successful completion of Module B, the participants will gain an in depth understanding of system safety concepts with various methods of identifying and mitigating hazards, safety issues during the project life-cycle stages and how to implement international standards & directives EN50126/8/9 Common Safety Methods.
- On successful completion of Module C, Detailed RAM engineering concepts module, the participants will have an in-depth understanding of RAM concepts including the mathematics required for RAM, and how to implement EN50126 process. The participants will also gain a good understanding of RAM modelling, FRACAS and value engineering.
Course Curriculum
A1 Outline of System Engineering Principles
A1.1 What is a system?
A1.2 What is system engineering/system engineer?
A1.3 What elements can be included within it?
A2 System Lifecycle
A2.1 Blackbox analysis
A3 System engineering application to the railway
A5 Whole life costs
A5.1 Life cycle cost modelling
A5.2 Value Engineering
Live Support Sessions
B1 Hazard, Hazard Analysis and Risk Acceptance
B2 System, product safety assessment, SIL levels
B3 CENELEC standards and Common safety methods
B4 Safety Engineering Techniques
B4.1 Hazard Log Management
B4.2 FMECA- Safety analysis
B4.3 Fault tree analysis
B4.4 Event tree analysis
B4.5 Safety targets compliance
B4.6 Risk acceptance through common safety methods
B4.7 Safety Case- ALARP/SFAIRP
B5 Engaging and Independent Safety Assessor (ISA)
B6 Safety review by statutory bodies
B7 Production and review of system safety deliverables
Live Support Sessions
Online Test- System Safety
C1 RAM Mathematics
C1.1 Probability theory
C1.2 Conditional probability
C1.3 Venn Diagram
C1.4 Mutually exclusive and independent events
C1.5 Boolean Algebra
C1.6 Axioms and Theorems
C2 RAM Basics
C2.1 Detailed explanation of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and associated parameters.
C2.2 Relationship between different parameters
C2.3 Constant failure rate model and bath tub curve
C2.4 Different types of Maintenance
C2.5 Different types of Availability
C3 RAM Modelling
C3.1 Reliability block diagrams
C3.1.1 Series and parallel systems
C3.1.2 Decomposition method of RBD solution
C3.2 Markov chain analysis for repairable systems
C4 Fault tolerance and Redundancy
C4.1 Systematic and Random faults
C4.2 Types of redundancy- Hardware and Software