Transportation
The transportation industry faces tough requirements regarding safety and reliability, which must be balanced with the need for cost efficiency.
The transportation industry faces tough requirements regarding safety and reliability, which must be balanced with the need for cost efficiency.
We have established a separate business unit to meet these needs, with extensive experience from a broad selection of studies from the aviation, railway, underground, monorail and other transportation sectors.
The main services we supply to the transportation industries are:
About RAMS
The RAMS (Acronym for Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) process defines a comprehensive set of tasks for the different phases of a generic life cycle for a total rail system to develop railway specific RAMS requirements and to achieve compliance with these requirements. A systems-level approach facilitates assessment of the RAMS interactions between the elements of a complex railway application.
To manage the RAMS requirements and tasks, specific approach must be made in terms of analysis methods and RAMS management throughout the different phases. The RAMS lifecycle process and tasks emphasize on the operator (end user) and the conditions to enable control of risk, availability and regularity of the operation and maintainability/cost of the railway system (E.g. rolling stock, infrastructure, etc.). Specification and demonstration of these conditions are settled prior to the design phase by specific criteria’s and analysis methods approach to achieve the RAMS targets and management by the support industry throughout the RAMS phases to system acceptance and commissioning.
Thus, for the operator, the RAMS process can be regarded a knowledge and management process where operational experience may be analyzed and evaluated with respect to previous analyses/experience, causes, effects and actions. This forms a sound foundation for decision making processes and management of continuous improvement of operation, maintenance and technical systems.
The CENELEC-standards EN 50126, EN 50128 and EN 50129 represents a railway specific application of RAMS. The standards are often regarded of as an entirety;”The family of RAMS-standards”. RAMS is a generic term for the quality and safety of a system, i.e. a system which operates in a way that can be trusted and in a safe mode all through the system lifecycle.
Learn more about our competence within the transportation industries-
go to www.lr.org/sectors/rail
Below is a summary of our most recent client successes and activities: