Reliability Engineering and Data Collection for the Purpose of Plant Safety and Availability

Keywords: Reliability engineering, reliability data, safety, availability, reliability program

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Abstract:

World-wide chemical and other processing plants are trying to implement reliability programs to improve plant safety while trying to maintain plant availability. Any kind of reliability program, like a preventive maintenance (PM) program, consists always of one or more reliability models and reliability data to execute these models. It is needless to say that the actual successful implementation and utilization of these reliability programs heavily depends on the accuracy of the reliability models and the availability of realistic data, or at least as close as possible data.

The objective of this paper is to give the reader a better understanding of the importance of reliability engineering focusing on the collection of reliability data for the purpose of process availability, safety and preventive maintenance programs. © 2009 Inside Publishing. All Rights Reserved.

Volume: 2009   Issue: 1
EUR 9.39
(Pages: 20, Words: 6259)

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