DETERMINING RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE AND MAINTENANCE COSTS OF SELECTED DESIGN SOLUTION AND MAINTENANCE STRATEGY

摘要

This paper discusses the application of a developed method for determining the reliability performance and maintenance costs of selected design solution and maintenance strategy. Along with the conceptual presentation we follow numerical results of a power generation unit (PGU) which is our case example. With the help of the method, the engineer can determine the early stage of the development project to which level of reliability performance and maintenance costs can be achieved by using the selected design solution and maintenance strategy. If the defined requirements have not been achieved, the engineer must go back to the drawing table to consider other solutions and/or maintenance strategy for achieving the requirements. The method is one of the main results from the research project, which has been carried out in collaboration with eleven top Finnish industrial companies. The applicability of the method has been tested in the companies participating in the research project. Ramentor (www.ramentor.com) is responsible for commercializing, marketing and supplying technical support of the ELMAS software which has been developed to implement the method.