Open AccessReliability, Availability and Maintainability Analysis to Improve the Operational Performance of Soft Water Treatment and Supply Plant
Author(s) -
Ashish Kumar,
Abhishek Singh,
Monika Saini,
Ombir Dahiya
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of engineering science and technology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1791-9320
pISSN - 1791-2377
DOI - 10.25103/jestr.135.24
Subject(s) - maintainability , reliability engineering , reliability (semiconductor) , engineering , failure rate , operations management , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
The purpose of this paper is to provide results for reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) measures to improve the operational performance of a soft water treatment and supply plant (SWTS-Plant) through the illustrative case study. RAM analysis of SWTS plant installed in a high-rise society ABC, Jaipur was performed. The descriptive analysis of time to failure and repair has been made along with trend analysis and goodness-of-fit test. The best fitted distributed and parameters have been identified from the existing theoretical distributions using the maintenance data of ABC plant. Reliability and maintainability measures also calculated for the entire plant. It is observed that (i) the plant availability decline from 97.96% to 92.67% (ii) failures of five subsystems dominant with 81.5 % failures and (iii) average failure rate is 937.4 minutes. This study will be supportive to identify the occurring complications in the plant.