Mick Drew from ARMS Reliability recently conducted a webinar look at the role of the Reliability Engineer in Major Projects.

This is the second part in a 6 part series on major projects and can be viewed here

A sure way to increase the effectiveness of RAMS is to include a Reliability Engineer in the project team, either full time or call-off expert service provider.

The role of the Reliability Engineer is to quantify the basic data regarding failures so that the reliability of equipment used in the project can be predicted, and the availability of the project assessed.

This provides the project team with the ability to identify critical issues early in the design process, perform trade-off studies and define maintenance requirements as part of the design process.