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Reliability,Availability,Maintainability and safety(RAMS)

Reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS) constitute the key element of the assessment in the rail industry today. For rail system operator. RAMS means a safe, reliable, high-quality service and lower operating and maintenance costs. For the rail system provider. RAMS is representing a high-quality system and product. RAMS is the basis of many companies' competitive edge.

For rail transit operators, good RAMS data performance represents lower operation and maintenance costs and reliable, safe and high-quality service. For system suppliers, RAMS data in line with the requirements represents high-quality systems and products, which is the basis for enterprises to participate in the competition.

RAMS evaluation during the system operation phase includes but is not limited to:

  • Safety assessment of the operation and maintenance status of the subway line system that has been put into operation, including the assessment of its risk identification and control process, fault management and analysis process, etc.
  • Evaluate the status of facilities and equipment of the subway line system that has been put into operation, including but not limited to the evaluation of the operation performance, status rating, service life and status range of facilities and equipment, and put forward suggestions for the optimization of facilities and equipment to improve the operation performance of the equipment.

Our service

TÜV NORD provide RAMS services during all phases of a system's life cycle, from the determining, allocating, design and verifying RAMS targets during the system development phase, to the analysis and improvement of RAMS performance during the system operation and maintenance phase.

TÜV NORD provides RAMS services in a variety of dimensions throughout the life cycle:

 RAMS management system technical support

  • Risk management and hazard analysis
  • LCC life cycle cost analysis
  • FMECA failure modes
  • Impact and hazard analysis
  • Reliability data collection and analysis
  • RAMS evaluation of core electromechanical systems.

Contact us

Lea Zhu
BD Manager
Tel:+86-13301826077
E-mail:leazhu@tuv-nord.com