Reliability, availability, maintainability and safety

"RAMS" redirects here. For other uses, see Rams (disambiguation).

In engineering, reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS)[1][2] is used to characterize a product or system:

  • Reliability: Ability to perform a specific function and may be given as design reliability or operational reliability
  • Availability: Ability to keep a functioning state in the given environment
  • Maintainability: Ability to be timely and easily maintained (including servicing, inspection and check, repair and/or modification)
  • Safety: Ability not to harm people, the environment, or any assets during a whole life cycle.
  1. ^ "Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability - SEBoK". RAMBoK Project. Retrieved 2019-05-26.
  2. ^ System safety, Norwegian University of Science and Technology