A Criticality analysis to identify those areas of a plant carrying the largest opportunities for improvements can be conducted using FMECA and/or Reliability Block Diagrams. The FMECA analysis will identify those failure modes which are the most critical from a cost, safety and operational viewpoint. Reports detailing the equipment and failure modes can be ordered so subsequent improvement efforts are targeted to the most important areas.

ARMS Reliability Engineers can facilitate this review and the resulting criticality can be updated at any time to reflect the impact of the latest improvement efforts. Importance of equipment to system performance is often difficult to see when there are complex relationships involving series and parallel equipment. An importance analysis using actual or predicted failure data can ensure your improvement efforts are targeted to the equipment items that have the biggest impact on plant capacity, availability and reliability.

Applied to industrial plant, power generation, utilities, trains, ships, electronic arrays, communication networks, ARMS Reliability Engineers have a depth of experience across a broad range of industry.