ASME RAM-1-2013 Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability of Equipment and Systems in Power Plants
ASME RAM-1-2013 Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability of Equipment and Systems in Power Plants
ASME RAM-1-2013 Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability of Equipment and Systems in Power Plants provides guidance for those who manage high-value production facilities 1 with the reliability, availability, and maintainability characteristics expected in an asset management program. It emphasizes program requirements, not implementation methods. Its developers expect that companies with large generating facilities will benefit the most. This Standard considers existing reliability process standards (see references), but its use is voluntary. It does not supersede other accepted guidance, but rather it seeks to fill a gap.
This Standard will help those who operate, manage, and support generation facilities of all types. In addition, auditors, lenders, or responsible agencies who determine compliance or provide due diligence may use this Standard. By providing guidance for facilities that must comply with safety and environmental requirements, it helps develop reliability programs, while meeting production schedules to assure commercial success.
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ASME RAM-1–2013 Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability of Equipment and Systems in Power Plants
- Foreword
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- Committee Roster
- Correspondence With the RAM Committee
- Introduction
- Scope
- Purpose
- Definitions
- RAM Process
- RAM Description
- Mandatory Appendix Definitions
- Nonmandatory Appendix References
Effective reliability plans must prevent functional failures that affect power plant performance, even though equipment itself fails. For this reason, most power plants are designed to tolerate failures of certain components. However, the design must also address ease of maintenance. It must ensure short down times when failures do occur, as well as when planning outage work. Maintaining reliable production requires a strategy supporting equipment monitoring, maintenance, and replacement. Successful maintenance strategies complement the plant design itself. Clear, actionable guidance based upon established strategies should provide effective tools to manage risk. This Standard provides an overview of common reliability program attributes to attain reliability, maintainability, and availability at minimum cost, based upon an experts’ consensus approach.
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